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WHERE OLD
and NEW MEET
Something old, something new, lots that's borrowed — but nobody's blue. Station WOV in New York is, in actuality, a sort of figurative wedding. Broadcasting in the Italian language daily from nine in the morning to seven in the evening (and in English before 9 A.M. and after 7 P.M.), WOV designs its programs to please the 2,100,000 ItalianAmericans in New York's metropolitan area. /
Something old? The immortal Italian music, a great percentage of the world's best-known and beloved opera, the heart-warming humanity of Italian comedy and of Italy's sensitive drama.
Something new? These Italians, with their hearts rich with the best from their homeland, are new Americans. First and second generation Americans. Loving their new country, they nevertheless feel a warmth and fondness for the land of their ancestral or early association (even as many of us evidence partiality for a particular section of the United States associated with our childhood).
Something borrowed? We've borrowed — adopted — the art, music, sensitivity and much of the tradition of Italy. Thousands of musiclovers tune in daily to Gems of the Opera — a program of precious recordings of the finest music in the world.
At WOV the staff isn't blue, but happy and interested first and second generation Italians. Glance into the station's fabulous classical record library and watch the librarians at work. There is a sort of reverence in their handling of precious out-of-print recordings of old Italian melodies and the voices of world-famous singers.
Peek through the studio door as a drama is being aired. Our Italian actors live their roles. Ten-year-old Bobby Delia Santina, long beloved as II Biondino (Little Blondy) in a WOV serial drama, emotes into the mike with real tears pouring down his face.
To bring Italian-Americans news direct from their homeland, WOV maintains studios in the heart of Rome. Giuliano Gerbi— a sort of ambassador of goodwill — travels through Italy recording conversations and interviews. After broadcast in America it is common for WOV to learn from listeners the happiness brought them through the sound of a friend's voice, or perhaps the peal of a church bell in some tiny but well-remembered hamlet.
So— as we said — WOV is a sort of "wedding." It is an eloquent and active means, anyway, to the wedding of the old and the new — a link between countries across the world from each other and a handshake across the ocean.
Talented WOV announcer Giancarlo Rossini evidences the sincerity of Italian language broadcasts; roving reporter Giuliano Gerbi tours Italy recording conversations for rebroadcast to Italian-Americans.
Lamberto Maggiorani, star of "The Bicycle Thief," visits Vera Cueto and Lucio Basco of the Rome staff.