No WQXR-96 staff moving to WQXR-106 ???

[radioman390]

Scott Fybush is reportiong in today's North East Radio Watch (NERW) that his sources say
not one current WQXR staffer will move from 122 Fifth to Varick Street.

Any confirmation?

[DToTheJ]

With a source such as Scott Fybush, who needs confirmation?

[badjef]

FWIW, the way I read all of this, the only resemblence to present 'QXR and 105.9's 'QXR is the call letters and "format".

Signal, freq., staff, location, ownership, licensee, ( am I forgetting anything?) will all be different.

Scott's right...as usual. Staff may or may not have been given the chance to apply for employment. That's too much inside baseball for this thread.

If you think about it, NYT could have sold the whole kit and kabodle to Univision. They carved it up into 2 pieces: signal and call sign.

Univision may have ended up with a tax advantage by taking the whole thing and then "donating" 105.9 to WNYC, Inc.
Or, even optioning it.

I'm not an accountant and not trying to play one here but I'm sure that might have been on the table.

NYT needed the money. That's why they sold.

NYT received more for the sale by doing what they did.

Personally, I'm glad what was done was done considering the other options and possibilities.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

[BruceS8852]

It would have been poor public relations for the New York Times if classical music left the NYC airwaves.  I always remember hating it when the music teachers in high school forced us to listen to it.  I am glad it will still there for people who do enjoy Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc.

Bruce

[badjef]

It would have been poor public relations for the New York Times if classical music left the NYC airwaves. 

I don't think PR was in front of their minds. It was keeping one of their buttons in their cars in the format.

I always remember hating it when the music teachers in high school forced us to listen to it.  I am glad it will still there for people who do enjoy Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc.

Bruce

Yeah, at that time they still hired teachers who knew better. Music appreciation is missing in the curriculum now.

Explains alot, eh?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta

[Cosmopolite]

After years at QXR why would talent be expected to apply for their own jobs, take a pay cut, plus waste their musical knowledge and announcing skills on running "Beg-A-Thons."

[Mark Jeffries]

After years at QXR why would talent be expected to apply for their own jobs, take a pay cut, plus waste their musical knowledge and announcing skills on running "Beg-A-Thons."

But it's OK for them to read commercials?  I thought you elitists hated advertising.

And please explain to us how a non-commercial WQXR could stay in business without pledge drives.  Even with a Democratic White House and Congress, there is no way in hell that any public broadcasting funding schemes like the license fee that funds the BBC would be approved in this country--talk radio and Fox News would be screaming bloody murder.