WQXR-FM
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| City | Newark, New Jersey |
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| Broadcast area | New York City metropolitan area |
| Branding | Classical New York WQXR |
| Slogan | New York's Classical Music Station |
| Frequency |
105.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) (also on HD Radio via WNYC-FM-HD2) |
| First air date | November 26, 1939 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Classical HD2: Q2: Contemporary Classical |
| ERP | 610 watts |
| HAAT | 416 meters |
| Class | B1 |
| Facility ID | 46978 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°44′54.00″N 73°59′10.00″W / 40.7483333°N 73.9861111°W |
| Callsign meaning | a nod to the calls of 1929 experimental station W2XR. The cursive version of Q mimics the number 2. |
| Former frequencies | 96.3 MHz (1944–2009) |
| Owner |
New York Public Radio (WQXR Radio) |
| Sister stations | WNYC, WNYC-FM, New Jersey Public Radio, WQXW |
| Webcast | FM/HD1: WQXR Webstream PLS HD2: Q2 Webstream |
| Website | FM/HD1: wqxr.org HD2: Q2 website |
WQXR-FM (105.9 FM) is an American classical radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York City metropolitan area. It is the most-listened-to classical-music station in the United States, with an average quarter-hour audience of 63,000.
It is owned by the nonprofit New York Public Radio, which also operates WNYC (820 AM and 93.9 FM) and the four-station New Jersey Public Radio group. New York Public Radio acquired WQXR on July 14, 2009, as part of a three-way trade which also involved The New York Times Company – the previous owners of WQXR – and Univision Radio. WQXR-FM broadcasts from studios and offices in the Hudson Square section of Manhattan, and the transmitter is located atop the Empire State Building.
At 8:00 p.m. on October 8, 2009, Univision's WCAA moved to the 96.3 FM frequency while WQXR-FM moved to 105.9 FM, becoming a non-commercial radio station run by New York Public Radio. Within that next week WCAA, now on 96.3, changed its call letters to WXNY-FM.
WQXR once used a translator in Asbury Park, New Jersey that transmitted its programming at 96.7 FM, however the owners of the translator sold it and the new owners moved it out of Asbury Park, forcing WQXR to no longer broadcast in the area on that frequency.
WQXR gained former stand-alone station WDFH as a repeater on July 29, 2013, changing its call-letters to the current WQXW.
WQXR-FM is the outgrowth of a "high-fidelity" AM station, WQXR (1560 AM), which was founded in 1936 by John V. L. Hogan and Elliott Sanger. Hogan began this station as a mechanical television station, W2XR, which went on the air on March 26, 1929.
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