Tag Archives | WQXR

World’s Biggest Online Classical Destination?

By on | May 28, 2012 in | Comments { 1 }

Radio Today  reports that Classic FM in the UK has launched a new website with the claim that it will become the “world’s biggest online classical music destination.” I went to the site here, and got a screen saying they only have rights to air in the UK. This is not the first time I’ve heard [...]

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Graham Parker – New VP of WQXR

By on | June 26, 2010 in | Comments { 5 }

People can have different relationships with WQXR besides broadcast.  Radio isn’t just FM anymore.  Great content will find people wherever they are – we need to open up the definition of what radio is. Graham Parker, the new VP of Classical WQXR.  Parker is enthusiastic about the variety of platforms and programming coming out of WQXR, both on the [...]

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WQXR – Smart Thinking

By on | June 23, 2010 in | Comments { 1 }

Kudos to CEO Laura Walker and the WQXR/WNYC staff for having the vision to hire yet another creative thinker.  Graham Parker has been the Executive Director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, where he has been doing brilliant work.  He will fill the newly-created post of Vice President of Classical 105.9 WQXR.  Parker has a deep set of skills [...]

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More from AMPPR

By on | May 19, 2010 in | Comments { 3 }

I asked some of the attendees at the AMPPR conference in NYC to write reports for this blog.  Here is the first of two installments: From John Pitman, Music Director at All Classical in Portland OR: While visiting the facilities of WQXR/WNYC, I felt like I was walking the halls of some vast intergalactic public radio space [...]

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