#WMCA

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“Along the catwalk to the towers of WMCA/570 and WNYC/820, two New York AM stations that once fought over exclusive rights to the 570 dial position (they shared time and then WNYC lost and had to become a daytimer farther up the dial), and are now diplexed on three 326-foot Truscon towers standing in an impounded flood-control pond alongside the Hackensack River along the Belleville Pike in Kearny, New Jersey, just off the East spur of the New Jersey Turnpike. The site was still sort-of-solid swamp ground when WMCA built the facility in 1940. WNYC moved there in 1993, also becoming a full-time station, with 10kw by day and 1kw by night. WMCA has been full-time with 5kw for the duration.” - via Wikimedia Commons

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WMCA Radio leads in stunt and novelty broadcasts.

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Frankie Crocker on WBLS 107.5 New York | Late 1970s

 WBLS 107.5 New York – Frankie Crocker – Late 1970s Back in the early 1970s, many African Americans in New York felt the radio stations were not addressing their concerns, or covering issues they were concerned with. Several Black leaders in New York decided to do something about it, by getting together, pooling resources, and buying a radio station. Percy Sutton, Malcolm X’s former…

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1936 WMCA by Al Q

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The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and the government's Commonwealth Game Legacy Fund have awarded WOLVERHAMPTON £500,000 to help with the costs of hosting the Kabaddai World Cup 2025 final.

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New York City, July 1967:

“‘JUST WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED!’ … screams Peter Tork, as the Monkees receive Good Guys Sweatshirts on a recent visit to WMCA studios. Standing behind the group, (left to right) Jack, Gary, Dan, Eddie ad Steve Clark look on as Mike Nesmith (far left) deadpans, [Micky] hides behind his shirt, and Davy Jones says: ‘You’re all nuts!’” - Go Magazine, August 4, 1967

“Despite a less-than-capacity crowd the Monkees generated noise, excitement and fun in a frantic program on Friday (14) at the First Hills Music Festival. Shrieks, mainly from teen-age girls, punctuated the evening and in follow up concerts on Saturday (15) and Sunday (16). […] The Monkees sang, mugged, gyrated and kidded through a 45-minute program that never let up in its intensity or its variety. […] The WMCA ‘Good Guys’ were emcees for the three nights.” - Billboard, July 29, 1967

(The sweatshirt looks like it made an appearance later in these photos by Nurit Wilde...)

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wet beatles jumpscare 😔

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they are in higher quality now..... on their way to 7-Eleven i think 🙏

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Edna Mae Harris (September 29, 1914 – September 15, 1997), sometimes credited as Edna May Harris was an American actress and singer. Harris was one of the first African–American film actress of the late 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in films featuring mostly African–American casts.

Born in Harlem, Harris parents were Sam, a boxer and customs inspector; Her mother Mary Harris (née Walker) worked as a maid. Harris' family is noted as one of the first families to have migrated to Harlem. Settling near the Lafayette Theater, Harris was convinced into pursuing a career in show business by Ethel Waters and Maud Russell who were frequent visitors to her family home. After being coached on her singing and dancing by Waters and Russell, Harris began performing in the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). An African-American vaudeville circuit, Harris performed with TOBA from 1929 until 1933.

Harris attended Wadleigh High School (later known as Wadleigh High School for Girls) in Manhattan. During the summer after her sophomore year of high school, Harris worked at the Alhambra Theater doing dramatic sketches with a stock company. During this period, Harris received excellent training in diction and stage delivery through her association with veteran performers. Harris was also an excellent swimmer in high school, and in 1928 she entered the New York Daily News' Swimming Meet and won a championship.

Harris first real Hollywood break came when she landed a part in The Green Pastures (1936), portraying Zeba, starring with Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. Harris was a leading lady in Spirit of Youth (1938), the story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis. Harris also had leading roles in Oscar Micheaux films, Lying Lips (1939), and The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940). Her film credits also include such Hollywood films as Bullets or Ballots (1936), Private Number (1936), and Garden of Allah (1936), and the independent film Paradise in Harlem in 1939. Between picture commitments she toured with Noble Sissle's Orchestra as a featured vocalist along with Lena Horne and Billy Banks. In 1942, she played fourteen weeks at the old Elks' Rendezvous as the mistress of ceremonies and announced a weekly radio show over station WMCA in New York City. She also did character dialect parts on many broadcasts for the Columbia Workshop Program. Edna Mae Harris got to tell her story in her later years in the documentary, Midnight Ramble (1994), about independently produced black films.

Harris was married twice and had no children. Her first marriage was to Edward Randolph from 1933 until 1938, then to Harlem nightclub owner Walter Anderson from 1951 until his death in 1983. Harris dated boxer Joe Louis sometime during 1939 and 1940. Harris dated Robert Paquin, who co-starred with her in the Lying Lips from 1941 until 1942. Harris died of a heart attack on September 15, 1997 at the age of 82.

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Malachy McCourt

Physique: Stout Build Height: 5'8" (1.73 m)

Malachy Gerard McCourt (September 20, 1931 – March 11, 2024; aged 92) was an American-Irish actor, writer and politician. McCourt appeared in several films and soap operas, including The Molly Maguires, Brewster's Millions, and Another World. He also wrote three memoirs, describing his life in Ireland and in the United States. McCourt was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor of New York. He was the younger brother of author Frank McCourt.

In his youth, he was tall, husky with strapping good looks, overflowing charm and entertaining gift of gab. I’ve long admired McCourt as a teller of tall tales, salty jokes and personal anecdotes of growing up poor in Limerick, Ireland and later moving to New York. When I'm reading about the many women he had sex with, I always got an erection with his colorful descriptions.

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Limerick, Ireland, McCourt returned to the United States in 1952 and worked as a longshoreman, dishwasher, and laborer. Soon after, he became an actor, then established the first singles bar in America. He then began a tumultuous radio career in 1970 on WNYC, WMCA and WBAI. McCourt acted on stage, on television and in several movies, including The Brink's Job, Q, Tales from the Darkside, The January Man, Beyond the Pale, and Ash Wednesday. He appeared on several New York City-based soap operas: Another World, Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, and One Life to Live.

According to his first memoir, McCourt was a bit of a whore. And I love that. In the 2000s, when I discovered him. Malachy at this time was in his late sixties, still healthy but tending toward portly. He was big-shouldered and broad-bellied, though age had diminished his physical dominance. but I’d still like to image attending a lecture of his so I can go and sit near him. Possibly, deliberately, accidentally, trip and fall over so that my face lands in his crotch. I find it best to be subtle like that.

He died at Lenox Hill Hospital on March 11, 2024, at the age of 92. In addition to wife Diana, McCourt is survived by a daughter from his first marriage, Siobhán McCourt; a son from that marriage, Malachy Jr.; two sons from his second marriage, Conor and Cormac; a stepdaughter, Nina Galin; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Malachy and Diana McCourt had lived in the same apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for 59 years.

Known For: The Other Guys (2010) After.Life (2009) Righteous Kill (2008) - Showed his ass crack. Oz (TV Series) - Dead Man Talking (2003) - Shirtless, body being washed. The Devil's Own (1997) Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

Books Death Need Not Be Fatal with Brian McDonald (2017) Bush Lies in State (2004) History of Ireland (2004) The Claddagh Ring: Ireland's Cherished Symbol Of Friendship, Loyalty And Love (2003) Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad (2003) Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Land (2002) Singing My Him Song (2000) A Monk Swimming: A Memoir (1998) Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland (1998)

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"[Barry] Gray, widely credited with creating the talk show format and a fixture on the airwaves for almost half a century… was an itinerant disk jockey – obstreperous and adolescent, he was once called – in California and Florida before being hired at WMCA in New York In 1950." — New York Times, 12/23/1996

From a 1965 press release: "The program originated in Chandler's restaurant, and subsequently was broadcast from such restaurants as Hutton's, the Delmonico Hotel and the Shelton Hotel. One difficulty with broadcasting from restaurants, however, was that only celebrities would agree to be interviewed there. Well-known government officials and political figures would not come to a restaurant to talk. 'Eleanor Roosevelt wouldn't come to a saloon,' as Barry Gray explains. In addition, guests waiting to go on-the-air at a restaurant often passed too much time at the bar. In 1957, to achieve better-balanced programs, the Barry Gray Show moved into the WMCA studios, where it has originated ever since."

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Vintage 1960′s WMCA Good Guy Sweatshirt

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Boss Radio 66: Aircheck Of The Week

It was that brief moment of time when WABC was "The home of the seven swingin' Good Guys" before WMCA took the concept and ran with it. Charlie Greer plays New York's hits and stiffs of January 1962 for you on Boss Radio 66.

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Laura Shoaf Appointed Chair of Shadow Great British Railways

The Department for Transport (DfT) has appointed Laura Shoaf, Chief Executive of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), as the new Chair of Shadow Great British Railways (SGBR). Shoaf’s role will be to guide the government’s rail reforms and bring senior leaders together to implement improvements for passengers, working towards a more unified and efficient rail system. Shadow Great British…

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Summer 1964

THe "Summer 1964" at a beach covered with teenagers and their transistor radios #poem

Ocean City, NJ, 1964 At the Jersey shore, every transistor radiotuned to NYC either WABC-AM or WMCA-AMyou walked the sand north or southand the music and deejays followed you.diverse Top 40 rock, pop and soul.More diverse and accepting than the streetback home where some long hot summersin the future would fire up riots.But we were drifting under the boardwalk,wishin’ and hoping as I get around…