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Ronald Peter Straus (February 15, 1923 – August 6, 2012) was an American media proprietor. He was the president of WMCA, a radio station in New York City, and the chairman of Straus News, a publisher of newspapers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He was the director of Voice of America from 1977 to 1979.
Aug 8, 2012 · R. Peter Straus, who took over WMCA in New York in the late 1950s and turned it into one of the nation’s most innovative radio stations, broadcasting what are regarded as the first radio ...
Aug 8, 2012 · R. Peter Straus, a New York media executive who served as director of the Voice of America in the late 1970s and who earlier led a court battle that resulted in the reapportionment of...
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Jul 24, 2018 · R. Peter Straus was a dynamic media executive with a background in public service, campaign management, and radio broadcasting. He is credited with transforming his family’s New York City AM station WMCA into one of the country’s most pioneering: one that helped popularize rock ’n’ roll, the...
Aug 8, 2012 · R. Peter Straus, a pioneer in radio and a life-long public servant active in Democratic politics, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 2012, at his home in Manhattan. He was 89 years old. He died of natural causes, said his eldest daughter, Diane Straus Tucker of Washington, D.C.
Aug 9, 2012 · R. Peter Straus, a blueblood who used his WMCA radio station to fight for populist causes, pioneer talk programming and make rock ‘n’ roll fun, died Monday at his Manhattan home.
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Aug 10, 2012 · R. Peter Straus, 89, a New York media executive who served as director of the Voice of America in the late 1970s and who earlier led a court battle that resulted in the reapportionment of many state legislatures, died Monday of a heart ailment at his home in New York City.
