It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

Good morning everyone.

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone and happy birthday to us.

Today, as you may have heard, is WNYC's actual 100th birthday.

The station signed on for the first time on July 8th

1924. We'll be celebrating over the next year with all kinds of radio treats

and in-person treats for you our listeners including something

really fun tonight a reimagining of WNY's first ever broadcast live on the

radio and in-person on the green space stage featuring John Schaefer as the station's first announcer,

Brooke Gladstone as Mayor John Highland,

the versatile actor Sarah Jones in a variety of roles and WNYC president and CEO

La Fontaine Oliver as Commissioner Grover Whelan, the city official known as the

father of WNYC because he conceived of and pushed the idea of WNYC into existence.

We'll get a preview from La Fontaine in just a minute, but I also want to announce that

for this show, we've decided to go big with the centennial year that kicks off today with a series beginning right now called a hundred years of a hundred things over the next year we will literally do a hundred things. Over the next year, we will literally do a hundred year history of a hundred different things,

everything from a hundred years of global fascism to a hundred years of New York City ice cream.

I learned researching that segment

that Carvel's soft serve was apparently invented by accident

here in the city, so we'll get to that story later this summer.

We'll have 100 years of prohibition of immigration,

100 years of Robert Moses, also of Democratic

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