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WMCA (570 AM) is an AM radio station in New York City, owned by Salem Communications and broadcasting with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs. The station's studios are in Lower Manhattan and are shared with co-owned WNYM (970 AM). WMCA's transmitters are located along Belleville Turnpike in Kearny, New Jersey.〔(Site visit to WMCA Kearny facility )〕 The station's daytime coverage includes New York City and Nassau and Westchester counties in New York State, as well as parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.〔(Predicted coverage area for WMCA 570 AM at radio-locator.com )〕 Prior to switching to its current programming in 1989, WMCA's best-known incarnations were as a locally-programmed talk radio outlet during the 1970s and 1980s; and before that as a Top 40 outlet featuring its lineup of disc jockeys, known as the "Good Guys". WMCA is credited with having been the first New York radio station to broadcast a recording by the Beatles. ==Early years== After first testing as station 2XH, WMCA began regular transmissions on February 1, 1925, broadcasting on 428.6 meters wavelength with a power of 500 watts. The station was the 13th radio station to begin operations in New York City and was owned by broadcasting pioneer Donald Flamm.〔New York Times, 22 February 1925〕 The station's original studios and antenna were atop the Hotel McAlpin, located on Herald Square and from which WMCA's call letters derive.〔And not, as is sometimes thought, from the Music Corporation of America (now known as NBC Universal for non-music businesses, and Universal Music Group in the music industry), which has never owned this station.〕 In 1928 it moved to the 570 kHz frequency, sharing time for the next three years with municipally-owned WNYC. On April 19, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission approved WMCA's application to broadcast full-time on 570 kHz. In December 1940, Flamm had to surrender the station to industrialist Edward J. Noble, who had just resigned as Undersecretary of Commerce, in a transaction involving prominent political figures including Thomas Corcoran. Flamm's subsequent legal battle against Noble resulted in a congressional investigation and eventually ended in a financial settlement, though not the return of the station. Through its early decades WMCA had a varied programming history, playing music, hosting dramas, and broadcasting New York Giants baseball games. In 1943, it was acquired by the Straus family when Edward J. Noble acquired the Blue Network and its owned-and-operated stations from NBC, including WJZ (now WABC) in New York; the Blue Network would later be renamed the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). In 1945, host Barry Gray began dropping music and adding talk with celebrities and later call-in listeners; he is thus sometimes considered "The Father of Talk Radio", and his show lasted on WMCA through several decades and format changes. WMCA began playing hit music in the late 1950s with a Top 40 format. Among its disc jockey staff were future legends Scott Muni, Frankie Crocker, Harry Harrison and Murray "the K" Kaufman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WMCA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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