In the teashops of lower Manhattan's picturesque Chinatown, clusters of approving residents listened last week to a novel disc-jockey show, broadcast in Chinese on WHOM's FM band. The radio voice, announcing numbers, conducting interviews and reading news summaries, was that of a young (28) housewife, Louie Rang. The records, mostly imported from Hong Kong, included Westernized Chinese pop tunes (Rose, Rose, I Love You) as well as the high-pitched metallic native songs of the country.
WHOM, busiest foreign-language station in the U.S., has broadcast shows in 12 tongues, including Swiss-German and Ukrainian, but until this summer New York's 50,000 Chinese residents had...
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