On Friday, Mr. Wagenblast will record a few listeners' requests, and we will post them on City Room.
Stewart started by presenting Happening Sunday, which included listeners' requests and the record reviews show What's New.
Once he had settled in, he enjoyed departing from the music director's playlist and instead honoring listeners' requests.
In my final show, I'm playing a virtually unknown Cavatina, a movement of a Piano Concerto by Emil von Sauer, which a listener requested a few years back and with which I, and everyone else listening, fell instantly in love.
Early on, we decided that as data sets, lists of songs in Billboard were unreliable and listener requests were unwieldy.
The new-look schedule includes a new weekday morning show and listener requests on the breakfast show.
Programmes such as this, populated by listener requests and CD charts, are evidence of the station's creeping populism, say the critics.
The story was an immediate hit, generating more listener requests for cassette reproductions than any NPR story except the network's coverage of the death of Red Barber.
So far, at least, digital downloads have been anemic, and play on Radio Disney, where programming is based on listener requests, has been modest at best.
The station, which was available online and on digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio in London and south Wales, used a playlist based on listener requests made via its website.
