Welcome to Metromedia Radio ® – Your Source for The Great American Songbook and Sinatra

Martin Block hosts a fifteen-minute radio show called Guard Session. First airing in 1962, the show was a throwback to Block’s Make Believe Ballroom, Guard Session was broadcast as if it was taking place in a recording studio. Each show typically features one singer and an accompanying band. The format allows for two National Guard commercials and four tunes by the respective performers.  The original shows were highly scripted and somewhat corny, typical for Martin Block. By the end of production in 1967 the show was less scripted and had looser format.  

Enjoy William B & Company hosted by former WNEW radio talent, the late William B. Williams. Produced from 1975-1977, the National Guard thirty-minute show features William B Williams and the greatest musical talent that has ever graced America’s radio airways. You’ll enjoy listening to the great American songbook personalities like: Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Lena Horn, Tony Bennett share their talent and musical perspectives. Airing in its original format, the show has four segments with three commercial breaks.

Hosted by former WNEW radio talent Marty Wilson, since 2013, the show has been broadcast as a tribute to America’s first late night radio show originally broadcast in 1935. The radio program that originally aired on WNEW, hosted by Stan Shaw was notable for being (at least in its era) the longest running daily program on radio at five hours and for making WNEW the first radio station in the world to broadcast 24 hours a day.