On July 8, 2024 at 8:54 p.m. ET, it was exactly 100 years since WNYC — now the largest independent public radio station in the U.S. — came on the air for the very first time. We marked this historic moment with a reimagining of that first broadcast. The program featured Tony-winning performer and host of the upcoming podcast America, Who Hurt You? Sarah Jones, alongside veteran WNYC hosts including Soundcheck and New Sounds’ John Schaefer, and On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone. Our house band was lead by eight-time Grammy winner and the founder of The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Arturo O’Farrill, joined by an ensemble of musicians performing his new arrangements of musical selections from the 1924 broadcast and featuring vocals by two-time Grammy Award winning mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, and winner of the 2022 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition Lucía Gutiérrez Rebolloso.