No, but I think Leonard Lopate does.
Brian Lehrer is the fifth highest paid staff member at WNYC. He makes $204,835 per year. Last year he paid $25,337 in deductions. Net income = $179,498. Not a kings ransom if you're living in NYC. This information is available from WNYC's IRS form 990 (all 501(3)(c) non-profits must file them). It's posted on their website here: http://www.wnyc.org/files/about/990_06-0607.pdf
The title is "Hijack" from Marden Hill's album "Hijacked".
WNYC was created on 1924-07-08.
Not enough for all the work he does to prepare for each show and then broadcast live.
Yes, they can. WNYC's Radiolab visited a zoo in China in which they recorded a tiger yowling. (Podcast episode #4 on zoos)
She / it is an automaton ... a fembot ... a strictly synthetic, disembodied voice who floats down from outer space and delivers these oddly syncopated phrasings such that one wishes to slit one's throat.
Because of their small size and underdeveloped vocal cords tigers do meow for the first year of their life.
You"ve got the wrong politician! Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was known to have read newspaper proofs of comic strips over radio station WNYC as a (public Service) during a Newspaper strike. the popular idea of the(The mayor read the comics too) was decades later revived as part of a Reingold Beer Commercial. As far as is known FDR was not ever involved in any way ,shape of form with comic strips By the way a vignette of Mayor laGuardia reading the comics over the radio was featured on the cachet of the First day cover of the LaGuardia stamp. (covers only not the stamp itself sometimes runner-up stamp designs make the cover scene.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is on the eastern edge of Central Park on 5th Avenue.
February 18, 2007Tom, Dick, and HarryQ: I heard you suggest on WNYC that no one knows the origin of the expression "Tom, Dick, and Harry." I do! It's from a Thomas Hardy novel, Far From the Madding Crowd.A: Thanks for your comments, but I'm afraid the expression "Tom, Dick, and Harry" predates Thomas Hardy. His novel Far From the Madding Crowd was published in 1874, but the earliest published reference to the generic male trio occurred more than 200 years years earlier.Pairs of common male names, particularly Jack and Tom, Dick and Tom, or Tom and Tib, were often used generically in Elizabethan times. Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II has a reference to "Tom, Dicke, and Francis."The earliest citation for "Tom, Dick, and Harry" in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1734: "Farewell, Tom, Dick, and Harry, Farewell, Moll, Nell, and Sue." (It appears to be from a song lyric.) The OED and A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge have a half-dozen other references that predate the Hardy novel.But a reader of the blog has found an even earlier citation for "Tom, Dick, and Harry" than the one in the OED. The English theologian John Owen used the expression in 1657, according to God's Statesman, a 1971 biography of Owen by Peter Toon.Owen told a governing body at Oxford University that "our critical situation and our common interests were discussed out of journals and newspapers by every Tom, Dick and Harry."Interestingly, the reference in Far From the Madding Crowdis to "Dick, Tom and Harry," not to "Tom, Dick, and Harry." But we won't hold that against Hardy