64-602: WFME (1560 kHz ) is a non-commercial AM radio station licensed to New York, New York . The station is owned by Family Radio , a Christian radio network based in Franklin, Tennessee . WFME traces its origin to an experimental mechanical television station with the call sign W2XR, which was established by inventor John V. L. Hogan , and initially licensed as a "visual broadcasting and experimental" station at 140 Nassau Street in New York City. The station went on
128-480: A broad range of pop standards–the format's foundation artists including Frank Sinatra , Nat "King" Cole , Ella Fitzgerald , Dean Martin and Perry Como , but also artists from the big band era (such as Tommy Dorsey , Artie Shaw , Glenn Miller , Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington ); and non- rock-and-roll pop hits (by artists like Neil Diamond , Barbra Streisand , Ray Charles , Bobby Darin and Pat Boone , among others). Light rock and roll material such as
192-643: A homemade antenna mounted on a wooden pole, was located in a garage in Long Island City , near the Queensborough Bridge . Its 250 watts provided just enough power to reach Midtown Manhattan and parts of Queens . In November 1936 the FCC ruled that the high-fidelity stations could adopt conventional call letters, and W2XR became WQXR, which was chosen because "Q" was phonetically similar to "2", and, when written in script, capital "Q" and "2" have
256-495: A month, as it was originally reported by the New York Daily News on October 14, 2014; however, Disney had clarified that it had not yet agreed to the sale. In January 2013, Family Radio sold the original, Newark, New Jersey -licensed WFME (94.7 FM, which it had owned since 1966 but had been programming since 1963) to Cumulus Media , who converted the station into country music -formatted WNSH . In what amounted to
320-552: A more detailed treatment of this and the above frequency ranges, see Electromagnetic spectrum . Gravitational waves are also described in Hertz. Current observations are conducted in the 30–7000 Hz range by laser interferometers like LIGO , and the nanohertz (1–1000 nHz) range by pulsar timing arrays . Future space-based detectors are planned to fill in the gap, with LISA operating from 0.1–10 mHz (with some sensitivity from 10 μHz to 100 mHz), and DECIGO in
384-557: A similar appearance. An FM service, W2XQR , later 96.3 WQXR-FM , was added in 1939. The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in March 1941 formally extended the AM band to 1600 kHz. That ended the experimental AM "high-fidelity" service, but all four original stations were kept near their existing frequencies. WQXR was originally slated to move to 1600 kHz as a 5,000-watt Class III-A regional station, but management
448-471: A stake in the company in August 2022. ValueAct aims to encourage the company to more actively pursue the sale of "bundled" subscriptions to its various offerings. The paper bought AM radio station WQXR (1560 kHz) in 1944. Its "sister" FM station, WQXQ, became WQXR-FM (96.3 MHz). Branded as "The Stereo Stations of The New York Times ", its classical music radio format was simulcast on both
512-757: A station trade-plus-cash transaction, Family Stations also acquired the license for WDVY (106.3 FM) in Mount Kisco, New York . The 106.3 FM signal, combined in tandem with Family Radio-owned WFRH (91.7 FM) in Kingston, New York mainly serves the Hudson Valley region; another Family Radio outlet, WFRS (88.9 FM) in Smithtown, New York serves Long Island . This left Family Radio programming unavailable over-the-air in New York City proper and northern New Jersey (including Newark) for over two years. After
576-641: A suitable alternate location for the transmitter was found. However, in early 2021 ended regular programming and began broadcasting a recurring announcement that the station would suspend operations "in just a few days". Although Family Radio officials expressed a desire to eventually return to the New York airwaves, they noted that there were no immediate plans; listeners were directed to access either WFRS in Smithtown and WFME-FM in Mount Kisco, in addition to
640-457: A third of the company's board. As of June 2024: The company sponsors a series of national and local awards designed to highlight the achievements of individuals and organizations in different realms. In 2007, it inaugurated its first Nonprofit Excellence Award, awarded to four organizations "for the excellence of their management practices". Only nonprofits in New York City, Long Island , or Westchester were eligible. Jointly with
704-499: Is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base units is s , meaning that one hertz is one per second or the reciprocal of one second . It is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves . For high frequencies, the unit is commonly expressed in multiples : kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz). Some of
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#1732786903815768-468: Is an American mass-media company that publishes The New York Times and its associated publications and other media properties. Its headquarters are in Manhattan , New York City . The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The New York Times , published on September 18, 1851, stated: "We publish today the first issue of
832-477: Is the photon's energy, ν is its frequency, and h is the Planck constant . The hertz is defined as one per second for periodic events. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined the second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium -133 atom" and then adds: "It follows that
896-452: Is usually measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), or gigahertz (GHz). with the latter known as microwaves . Light is electromagnetic radiation that is even higher in frequency, and has frequencies in the range of tens of terahertz (THz, infrared ) to a few petahertz (PHz, ultraviolet ), with the visible spectrum being 400–790 THz. Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in the low terahertz range (intermediate between those of
960-496: The International Herald Tribune ( IHT ) for US$ 65 million on January 1, 2003, becoming the sole owner. On March 18, 2005, the company acquired About.com , an online provider of consumer information, for US$ 410 million. In 2005, the company reported revenues of US$ 3.4 billion to its investors . The Times, on August 25, 2006, acquired Baseline StudioSystems, an online database and research service on
1024-705: The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association , the New York Times Company sponsors an award to honor librarians "for service to their communities". The I Love My Librarian! award was given to ten recipients in December 2008, and presented by the New York Times Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson , Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian , and Jim Rettig, president of
1088-497: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Due to blanketing interference, the station later reduced power to 500 watts. On March 4, 2024, WFME ceased operations and went silent, after the FCC imposed additional restrictions of the continued grants of STAs to operate at reduced power, following an objection filed by Albert David, as well as interference complaints from the nearby Goddard School and
1152-449: The 0.1–10 Hz range. In computers, most central processing units (CPU) are labeled in terms of their clock rate expressed in megahertz ( MHz ) or gigahertz ( GHz ). This specification refers to the frequency of the CPU's master clock signal . This signal is nominally a square wave , which is an electrical voltage that switches between low and high logic levels at regular intervals. As
1216-468: The 1970s. In some usage, the "per second" was omitted, so that "megacycles" (Mc) was used as an abbreviation of "megacycles per second" (that is, megahertz (MHz)). Sound is a traveling longitudinal wave , which is an oscillation of pressure . Humans perceive the frequency of a sound as its pitch . Each musical note corresponds to a particular frequency. An infant's ear is able to perceive frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz ;
1280-671: The 96.3 FM frequency from 105.9 FM, ended the Times' 65-year-long ownership of the station. In December 2011, the company sold its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Group , owners of The Daytona Beach News-Journal , for $ 143 million. The Boston Globe and The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester were not part of the sale. In 2011, the Times sold Baseline StudioSystems back to its original owners, Laurie S. Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, majority shareholders of Project Hollywood LLC . Facing falling revenue from print advertising in its flagship publication in 2011, The New York Times ,
1344-489: The AM & FM frequencies until December 1992, when the big-band and pop standards music format of station WNEW (1130 kHz – now WBBR /"Bloomberg Radio") was transferred to and adopted by WQXR; in recognition of the format change, WQXR changed its call letters to WQEW (a "hybrid" combination of " WQ XR" and "WN EW "). By 1999, The New York Times was leasing WQEW to ABC Radio for its " Radio Disney " format. In 2007, WQEW
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#17327869038151408-461: The FCC approved the sale on February 10, 2015, 1560 AM went silent on February 17 in preparation of the format change. The sale was finalized on February 20 and the call sign was changed to WFME. The station returned to the air on February 27, again giving Family Radio full coverage of the New York City market. Concurrent with the sale, the FCC converted 1560 AM's broadcast license status from commercial to non-commercial educational . The entirety of
1472-594: The Family Radio webstream. In much of central and southern New Jersey, Family Radio programming could also be heard on WKDN (950 AM) in Philadelphia . WFME went temporarily silent on the morning of February 15, 2021. On October 26, 2021, the station returned to the air from a new transmitter site in West Orange, New Jersey , operating with 1,000 watts under special temporary authority (STA), granted by
1536-515: The New York Times Company bought The Athletic , a subscription-based sports news website, for $ 550 million. Its founders, Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, stayed with the publication, which is run separately from the Times . Later that month, it acquired Wordle , an Internet word puzzle game that grew from 90 players in October 2021 to millions at the time of purchase. ValueAct Capital took
1600-502: The New York Times in 2015, The Wirecutter was acquired by the Times in October 2016 for a reported $ 30 million. In March 2020, the New York Times Company acquired subscription-based audio app, Audm. In July 2020, the New York Times Company acquired podcast production company Serial Productions . The same month, the company appointed chief operating officer Meredith Kopit Levien to the position of CEO. In February 2022,
1664-856: The New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come." The company moved into the cable channel industry, purchasing a 40% interest in the Popcorn Channel, a theatrical movie preview and local movie times, in November 1994. In 1996, it expanded upon its broadcasting by purchasing Palmer Communications, owners of WHO-DT in Des Moines and KFOR in Oklahoma City . The company completed its purchase of The Washington Post 's 50 percent interest in
1728-623: The Turtles was also occasionally heard. Although initially successful, the station's advertising revenues were not spectacular, and older audience demographics were deemed undesirable for long-term success. On December 1, 1998, the Times announced that WQEW would switch to Radio Disney after agreeing to what was initially an eight-year local marketing agreement term with the Walt Disney Company and its ABC Radio subsidiary. The entire WQEW air staff, under orders to not discuss
1792-553: The W2XR call sign, was licensed as an "experimental broadcast station" on June 29, 1934. In 1936, Elliott Sanger joined Hogan and formed the Interstate Broadcasting Company, with the intention of operating commercially, at a time when there were already about 25 radio stations in New York. The station was branded as the "Good Music" station, and primarily broadcast classical music. The transmitter, which used
1856-594: The agreement with the Times in late 2006, Disney had the option to purchase the station or to extend the arrangement with the Times maintaining ownership. Disney exercised the option to purchase in early January 2007. Disney/ABC officially became the owner of the station on May 24, 2007. On August 13, 2014, Disney announced its intention to end terrestrial distribution of the Radio Disney format, to focus on digital distribution. Disney would also sell its remaining Radio Disney broadcast outlets, including WQEW and with
1920-523: The air on March 26, 1929, and broadcast from the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. W2XR initially transmitted a video-only signal on 2100 kHz. It later added a companion audio signal, transmitted on 1550 kHz. At the time, the AM broadcast band ended at 1500 kHz, however, some receivers were capable of tuning to the higher frequency being used by W2XR. Hogan was a musical connoisseur, and drew on his record collection to provide
1984-476: The average adult human can hear sounds between 20 Hz and 16 000 Hz . The range of ultrasound , infrasound and other physical vibrations such as molecular and atomic vibrations extends from a few femtohertz into the terahertz range and beyond. Electromagnetic radiation is often described by its frequency—the number of oscillations of the perpendicular electric and magnetic fields per second—expressed in hertz. Radio frequency radiation
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2048-549: The bids for 1560 AM were satisfactory to management. When the FCC agreed to waive rules prohibiting stations from simulcasting if they were broadcasting classical music, the Times took the WQXR stations off the market. Simulcasting was also allowed, for example, for WGMS and WGMS-FM in Washington . On December 2, 1992, the AM side broke away from the simulcast for good, changing to an American popular standards format, which
2112-622: The company introduced a paywall to its website. As of 2012, it had been modestly successful, garnering several hundred thousand subscriptions and about $ 100 million in annual revenue. In 2013, the New York Times Company sold The Boston Globe and other New England media properties to John W. Henry , the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox . According to the Times Company, the move was made in order to focus more on its core brands. After forming an editorial partnership with
2176-649: The company moved from 229 West 43rd Street to the New York Times Building at 620 Eighth Avenue, on the west side of Times Square , between 40th and 41st streets across from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Bus Terminal . On July 14, 2009, the company announced that WQXR was to be sold to WNYC , which moved the station to 105.9 FM and began to operate the station noncommercially on October 8, 2009. This US$ 45 million transaction, which involved Univision Radio 's WCAA moving to
2240-501: The company owns The New York Times International Edition and related digital properties including NYTimes.com, as well as various brand-related properties. Since September 25, 1997, the company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. From April 27, 1967, until January 13, 1969, the company's Class A common stock traded over the counter. From January 14, 1969, until September 24, 1997,
2304-473: The company to 8.1% of Class A shares, and again in 2015, when he exercised stock options—acquired as part of a repayment plan on the 2009 loan—to purchase 15.9 million Class A shares, making him the largest shareholder. As of March 7, 2016, Slim owned 17.4% of the company's Class A shares, according to annual filings submitted by the company. While Slim is the largest shareholder in the company, his investment only allows him to vote for Class A directors,
2368-449: The day. WQXR-FM concentrated on longer classical works, while WQXR (AM) aired lighter classical music and talk programs produced in conjunction with The New York Times . While this plan gave classical music fans in the New York area two options, it also increased expenses for the stations. In 1971, the Times put WQXR-AM-FM up for sale. Many offers were received for the FM station, but none of
2432-440: The event being counted may be a complete cycle); 100 Hz means "one hundred periodic events occur per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic event—for example, a clock might be said to tick at 1 Hz , or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2 Hz . The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s ) in general or, in
2496-407: The film and television industries for US$ 35 million. The company announced on September 12, 2006, its decision to sell its Broadcast Media Group, consisting of "nine network-affiliated television stations, their related Web sites and the digital operating center". The New York Times reported on January 4, 2007, that the company had reached an agreement to sell all nine local television stations to
2560-449: The hertz has become the primary unit of measurement accepted by the general populace to determine the performance of a CPU, many experts have criticized this approach, which they claim is an easily manipulable benchmark . Some processors use multiple clock cycles to perform a single operation, while others can perform multiple operations in a single cycle. For personal computers, CPU clock speeds have ranged from approximately 1 MHz in
2624-413: The highest normally usable radio frequencies and long-wave infrared light) is often called terahertz radiation . Even higher frequencies exist, such as that of X-rays and gamma rays , which can be measured in exahertz (EHz). For historical reasons, the frequencies of light and higher frequency electromagnetic radiation are more commonly specified in terms of their wavelengths or photon energies : for
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2688-616: The hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9 192 631 770 hertz , ν hfs Cs = 9 192 631 770 Hz ." The dimension of the unit hertz is 1/time (T ). Expressed in base SI units, the unit is the reciprocal second (1/s). In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form. As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed ; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 10 Hz ), MHz (megahertz, 10 Hz ), GHz (gigahertz, 10 Hz ) and THz (terahertz, 10 Hz ). One hertz (i.e. one per second) simply means "one periodic event occurs per second" (where
2752-530: The late 1970s ( Atari , Commodore , Apple computers ) to up to 6 GHz in IBM Power microprocessors . Various computer buses , such as the front-side bus connecting the CPU and northbridge , also operate at various frequencies in the megahertz range. Higher frequencies than the International System of Units provides prefixes for are believed to occur naturally in the frequencies of
2816-602: The lone exception of KDIS in Los Angeles. Disney set a deadline of September 26, 2014, to complete the sales or have deals in principle set or the stations in question, including WQEW, would fall silent. However, Disney backtracked and the stations would remain on the air, continuing to broadcast Radio Disney programming until each were sold. On November 21, 2014, then- Oakland, California -based Family Stations announced it would purchase WQEW from Disney/ABC for $ 12.95 million. The transaction had been rumored for at least
2880-505: The name The New York Times Radio Company .) It broadcast classical music full-time, along with New York Times news. At 9 pm, the newspaper having been "put to bed", the station would broadcast a brief discussion of the news which would appear on the front page of the next day's issue. WQXR was the first AM station in New York to experiment with broadcasting in stereo, beginning in 1952. During some of its live concerts, it used two microphones positioned six feet apart. The microphone on
2944-447: The newspaper company finance its businesses". The New York Times Company later repaid that loan ahead of schedule. Since then, Slim has bought large quantities of the company's Class A shares, which are available for purchase by the public and offer less control over the company than Class B shares, which are privately held. Slim's investments in the company included large purchases of Class A shares in 2011, when he increased his stake in
3008-404: The pending changes on the air, was released on December 21; the station played Christmas music without announcers through the holiday. Regular programming resumed on December 26 and ended on December 27 at 11:59 p.m., when a pre-recorded signoff read by program director and air personality Stan Martin was played. Radio Disney programming launched on WQEW on December 28, 1998. At the end of
3072-469: The private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners , which then created a holding company for the stations, Local TV LLC . The company announced that it had finalized the sale of its Broadcast Media Group on May 7, 2007, for "approximately $ 575 million". On May 7, 2007, the company announced that its About.com web information service was acquiring Consumersearch.com, a Web site that compiles reviews of consumer products, for $ 33 million in cash. In 2007,
3136-709: The quantum-mechanical vibrations of massive particles, although these are not directly observable and must be inferred through other phenomena. By convention, these are typically not expressed in hertz, but in terms of the equivalent energy, which is proportional to the frequency by the factor of the Planck constant . The CJK Compatibility block in Unicode contains characters for common SI units for frequency. These are intended for compatibility with East Asian character encodings, and not for use in new documents (which would be expected to use Latin letters, e.g. "MHz"). The New York Times Company The New York Times Company
3200-521: The right led to its AM feed, and the one on the left to its FM feed, so a listener could position two radios six feet apart, one tuned to 1560 and the other to 96.3, and listen in stereo. In 1964, there was controversy when its 11 p.m. program "Nightcap" was sponsored by Schenley Liquors. Advertising hard liquor was considered a violation of the voluntary NAB standards. In 1965, the FCC began requiring commonly owned AM and FM stations in large markets to broadcast separate programming for at least part of
3264-564: The rules for capitalisation of a common noun ; i.e., hertz becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles but is otherwise in lower case. The hertz is named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who made important scientific contributions to the study of electromagnetism . The name was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1935. It
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#17327869038153328-513: The sale to Goddard School of the building housing their transmitter and tower. On September 16, 2024, the FCC approved an STA to resume operations with 10 kW non-directional, from a New Jersey site shared with stations WPAT and WNSW . It resumed broadcasting from this site, with 1 kW, on October 18, 2024. KHz The hertz (symbol: Hz ) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle ) per second . The hertz
3392-594: The shares were traded on the American Stock Exchange . Of the two categories of stock, Class A and Class B, the former is publicly traded and the latter is held privately—largely (over 90% through The 1997 Trust) by the descendants of Adolph Ochs , who purchased The New York Times newspaper in 1896. On January 20, 2009, The New York Times reported that its parent company, the New York Times Company, had reached an agreement to borrow $ 250 million from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim , "to help
3456-528: The sound for his experiments, which typically lasted for an hour in the evening. Hogan's television broadcasts came to naught, but he began to hear from classical music fans who encouraged him to continue broadcasting music. On December 19, 1933, the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) authorized three new broadcasting frequencies, between 1500 and 1600 kHz, for high-fidelity operation. These new 20 kHz-wide channels were twice as wide as
3520-413: The specific case of radioactivity , in becquerels . Whereas 1 Hz (one per second) specifically refers to one cycle (or periodic event) per second, 1 Bq (also one per second) specifically refers to one radionuclide event per second on average. Even though frequency, angular velocity , angular frequency and radioactivity all have the dimension T , of these only frequency is expressed using
3584-832: The standard AM broadcasting channels. Six applications were submitted to the FRC, including one for 1550 kHz in Long Island City from Hogan. Hogan's application was one of the four approved in April–the other stations, granted on the same day, were W1XBS in Waterbury, Connecticut, and W9XBY in Kansas City, Missouri, both on 1530 kHz, and W6XAI in Bakersfield, California, which shared 1550 kHz with W2XR. Although licensed as experimental stations, they were authorized to conduct commercial operations. Hogan's station, retaining
3648-492: The station's schedule originated from Family Radio headquarters (which in 2016 moved from Oakland to nearby Alameda, California ), although WFME did carry local programming to comply with the FCC's public affairs requirements. In late November 2020, Family Radio announced the sale of the property surrounding WFME's broadcast towers in Queens, but stipulated that the terms included that Family Radio would still use this site until
3712-480: The unit hertz. Thus a disc rotating at 60 revolutions per minute (rpm) is said to have an angular velocity of 2 π rad/s and a frequency of rotation of 1 Hz . The correspondence between a frequency f with the unit hertz and an angular velocity ω with the unit radians per second is The hertz is named after Heinrich Hertz . As with every SI unit named for a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (Hz), but when written in full, it follows
3776-403: The unit's most common uses are in the description of periodic waveforms and musical tones , particularly those used in radio - and audio-related applications. It is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as a representation of the energy of a photon , via the Planck relation E = hν , where E
3840-483: Was able to persuade the FCC to make it a class I-B station on 1560 kHz instead, eventually transmitting with the maximum for AM stations: 50,000 watts. The New York Post approached the company in the early 1940s about purchasing the stations. Sanger said publicly that he would have preferred to sell to The New York Times , and in early 1944, the Times agreed to pay just over $ 1 million for ownership of Interstate Broadcasting Company. A transfer application
3904-490: Was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) ( Conférence générale des poids et mesures ) in 1960, replacing the previous name for the unit, "cycles per second" (cps), along with its related multiples, primarily "kilocycles per second" (kc/s) and "megacycles per second" (Mc/s), and occasionally "kilomegacycles per second" (kMc/s). The term "cycles per second" was largely replaced by "hertz" by
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#17327869038153968-502: Was filed with the FCC on March 1, 1944, including a financial statement showing that the stations had made over $ 22,000 in profits the previous year, on revenues of $ 411,000; after FCC approval, the sale was completed on July 25, 1944. (The Times continued to operate its radio stations under the Interstate Broadcasting name for many years, maintaining what its president called "basic good-music policies," but later used
4032-515: Was finally purchased by Disney ; in late 2014, it was sold to Family Radio (a religious radio network) and became WFME . In 2009, WQXR-FM was sold to the WNYC radio group and, on October 8, moved from 96.3 to 105.9 MHz (swapping frequencies with Spanish-language station WXNY-FM , which wanted the more powerful transmitter to increase its coverage) and began operating it as a noncommercial, public radio station. Alongside its namesake newspaper,
4096-470: Was inaugurated by a live studio performance by Tony Bennett . The change came a few months after WNEW (1130 AM), New York's heritage popular standards station, announced an impending sale to Bloomberg L.P. and a format switch to business information with the new callsign WBBR . The format change at 1560 to standards happened 10 days before WNEW's transition. To reflect the heritage of both outlets, WQXR (AM) changed its call sign to WQEW. The station focused on
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