Comments on: NYT gets cash, QXR gets bumped

By: Jeff Shaw

Jeff Shaw — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:59:19 +0000

I listen to WQXR over the internet frequently. Stodgy? I dunno, it’s classical music, right? Music for kings and queens, ladies & gentlemen; mad dogs, Englishmen, high church and the like. That’s stodgy?

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:45:45 +0000

I see that I’ve had a couple of visitors from WNYC. The station blogs have had responses all over the map: one common complaint is that WQXR had gotten stodgy. (Do we want non-stodgy classical radio?) Just as common: the poorer reach of the new 105.9 facility. WNYC is saying that it will reach about 86 percent of the audience who were able to tune in WQXR at 96.3, which seems a little high, but only a little. My brief drives through New York City suggested a difficult reception area, owing to multipath reflections; then again, at the time I had a fairly crummy embedded-in-the-glass antenna, which surely didn’t help.

What no one has suggested, and presumably what no one wanted, was the idea of the Times Co. selling off WQXR to the highest bidder, and format changes be damned.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:05:03 +0000

WRR is still at 101.1, and is still owned by the city of Dallas.

I only recently (as in the last twenty minutes) found out that WCRB Boston went through similar gyrations, moving from 102.5 (Waltham) to 99.5 (Lowell).

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:57:24 +0000

I missed hearing about WCLV’s move. That makes me sad. WCLV was the station I listened to as a young classical-music geek. It came in pretty well in the little town some 35 miles to the south where I grew up. I wonder if it still comes in clearly there.

I know there was some talk about WRR (Dallas) doing a similar swap; I guess I never heard if that happened. (I can’t pick up WRR here, hard as I try with antennas and tinfoil and such. I can sometimes pick it up when I’m driving around Sherman – or at least I used to, I haven’t tried for it in a while).

Locally, there are really no music channels that appeal to me, so I fall back on my extensive CD collection or Internet radio.