Hop on the WDVR Road Coach!

Join host Ed McGlynn and guest Walt Haake for this special episode of Penned, Produced and Performed as they take a 100-mile trip across New Jersey to explore how Garden State innovators captured sound and connected the world.

From Thomas Edison’s crackly tinfoil cylinder in Menlo Park to the birth of the modern record industry in Camden, you’ll discover how local ingenuity turned fleeting music into a permanent fixture of everyday life. Along the way, the WDVR Road Coach stops at:

Bound Brook: Where high-power transmitters helped forge national network radio and shrink the distance between listeners.

Bell Labs in Murray Hill: The revolutionary laboratory where engineers invented the transistor and taught a room-sized computer to sing "Daisy Bell."

Alpine: High atop the Palisades, where FM pioneer Edwin Howard Armstrong fought to bring static-free sound to the airwaves.

East Orange & Beyond: Celebrating the freeform radio boom that turned broadcasts into intimate human connections.

It all circles back home to the WDVR studios in Sergeantsville—reminding us that behind every tower, line of code, and turntable, it’s always been about bringing people together through great music and conversation.

Take the ride with us!