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WAXQ
WAXQ (104.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to New York, New York. It airs a classic rock radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WAXQ's studios are at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan. DJs heard on WAXQ include radio veterans Carol Miller and Jim Kerr. The station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
A station signed on the air on the 104.3 frequency in 1949. Its call sign was WFDR, a non-profit FM station owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The call letters referred to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a hero to the labor movement.
However, few people owned FM receivers in that era. Like many early FM stations, WFDR lost money, and the station ceased operations in 1952.
A new FM station began broadcasting on the 104.3 frequency on December 1, 1956. Its call sign was WFMX. Within a year, it adopted the call letters WNCN, standing for "New York Concert Network." It was a part of a group of classical music stations in the Northeastern United States. The Concert Network was programmed from WBCN in Boston and was carried by affiliates WXCN in Providence, Rhode Island (now WWBB) and WHCN in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as WNCN.
Later, WNCN was acquired by medical advertising agency owner Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich, the founder of the National Science Network. The station added daily medical news reports to its schedule, since it was believed that classical music was the choice of doctors and dentists. WNCN's tower was moved from the Hotel Pierre to the Empire State Building, increasing the station's coverage.
National Science sold the station to Starr Broadcast Group in 1974. The station retained its classical music format for many years, except for a short period during 1974–1975 when it took up a progressive rock format with the call letters WQIV.
During the brief run of WQIV, the station's progressive rock appealed to long-time WNEW-FM listeners. Some veteran 1970s FM rock DJs were heard on WQIV, including Rosko (William Mercer) and Carol Miller. This brief period also saw deployment of a short-lived technology as unintentionally brief as the format change itself: WQIV broadcast in quadraphonic sound (a precursor to "Surround Sound") as indicated by the new call letters "Q" (quadraphonic) "IV" (Roman numeral 4). The choice of these call letters was a reminder to audiences of this technical innovation, although history shows that the consumer audio marketplace quickly abandoned quad.
The WQIV era was during ownership by Starr Broadcast Group, of which political commentator and author William F. Buckley Jr. was chairman. The GM was Alan Eisenberg, and the program director was Larry Miller (later with WKTU). The announcement that the station was changing to rock music was read by Buckley himself and repeated frequently on the air. Two groups, the WNCN Listeners Guild and Classical Radio for Connecticut, were formed, and petitioned the FCC to block the flip.
WAXQ
WAXQ (104.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to New York, New York. It airs a classic rock radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WAXQ's studios are at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan. DJs heard on WAXQ include radio veterans Carol Miller and Jim Kerr. The station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
A station signed on the air on the 104.3 frequency in 1949. Its call sign was WFDR, a non-profit FM station owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The call letters referred to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a hero to the labor movement.
However, few people owned FM receivers in that era. Like many early FM stations, WFDR lost money, and the station ceased operations in 1952.
A new FM station began broadcasting on the 104.3 frequency on December 1, 1956. Its call sign was WFMX. Within a year, it adopted the call letters WNCN, standing for "New York Concert Network." It was a part of a group of classical music stations in the Northeastern United States. The Concert Network was programmed from WBCN in Boston and was carried by affiliates WXCN in Providence, Rhode Island (now WWBB) and WHCN in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as WNCN.
Later, WNCN was acquired by medical advertising agency owner Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich, the founder of the National Science Network. The station added daily medical news reports to its schedule, since it was believed that classical music was the choice of doctors and dentists. WNCN's tower was moved from the Hotel Pierre to the Empire State Building, increasing the station's coverage.
National Science sold the station to Starr Broadcast Group in 1974. The station retained its classical music format for many years, except for a short period during 1974–1975 when it took up a progressive rock format with the call letters WQIV.
During the brief run of WQIV, the station's progressive rock appealed to long-time WNEW-FM listeners. Some veteran 1970s FM rock DJs were heard on WQIV, including Rosko (William Mercer) and Carol Miller. This brief period also saw deployment of a short-lived technology as unintentionally brief as the format change itself: WQIV broadcast in quadraphonic sound (a precursor to "Surround Sound") as indicated by the new call letters "Q" (quadraphonic) "IV" (Roman numeral 4). The choice of these call letters was a reminder to audiences of this technical innovation, although history shows that the consumer audio marketplace quickly abandoned quad.
The WQIV era was during ownership by Starr Broadcast Group, of which political commentator and author William F. Buckley Jr. was chairman. The GM was Alan Eisenberg, and the program director was Larry Miller (later with WKTU). The announcement that the station was changing to rock music was read by Buckley himself and repeated frequently on the air. Two groups, the WNCN Listeners Guild and Classical Radio for Connecticut, were formed, and petitioned the FCC to block the flip.