Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
WQXR-FM (105.9 FM) is an American non-commercial classical radio station, licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and serving the North Jersey and New York City area. It is owned by the nonprofit organization New York Public Radio (NYPR), which also operates WNYC (AM), WNYC-FM and the four-station New Jersey Public Radio group.
Robert Sherman (July 23, 1932 – June 27, 2023) was an American radio broadcaster, author, music critic, and educator. He achieved success as a host of such radio programs as the folk music show Woody's Children, which started on WQXR and was later broadcast by WFUV, and classical music shows The Listening Room and Young Artists Showcase, which were broadcast by WQXR in New York City.
WQXR is a service brand operated by New York Public Radio. It may also refer to: WQXR-FM, a radio station (105.9 FM) licensed in Newark, New Jersey, serving the New York City metropolitan area; WFME (AM), a radio station (1560 AM) licensed to serve New York, New York, United States, which held the WQXR call sign from December 1936 to November 1992
WQXR-FM's intellectual property (call letters and format) was acquired from the New York Times Company as part of a three-way transaction with Univision Radio. [7] WNYC also purchased the 105.9 FM frequency of Univision's WCAA (now WXNY-FM). WQXR-FM's classical format moved to 105.9 and WXNY's Spanish Tropical format debuted at 96.3.
His playlists reflected the "Great American Songbook" or, as Schwartz described it, "America's classical music". [6] Traditionally, Schwartz opened each broadcast with the same secret snippet of music which he had always refused to identify until 2014, at a show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music: slightly more than a minute of "a lilting woman's ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
RTÉ Radio 1 (current affairs and speech based broadcasting); RTÉ 2fm (rock and pop music); RTÉ lyric fm (classical music plus jazz, world music and arts); RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (the Irish language station targeted at the Gaeltacht, and the Irish language-speaking community of Ireland)
It simulcasts WQXR-FM, the only classical music station in New York City. WQXW now covers much of northern and central Westchester County, reaching northern portions of the New York metropolitan area where WQXR cannot reach. WQXW's antenna tower is located in Chappaqua, New York. [citation needed]