The best new twist along the radio dial is bringing listeners in growing numbers to little (5,000 watts) WPAT in Paterson, N.J., and making it one of the most popular stations in the New York metropolitan area. The station's simple yet radical idea: spare the listener the sound of the human voice, except at decent intervals, i.e., no oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more...
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