WQXR

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{"value"=>"1935-1968", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/1968"}
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1935
date_inclusive_end
1968
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{"value"=>"<p>These folders contain memoranda, reports, letters, and other documents about all aspects of WQXR's operations, starting with the earliest investigations of the radio station by the NYT in 1935 and ending with the retirement of Elliott Sanger in 1967 and of Norman McGee in 1968. They concern chiefly the station's music programming (especially the performance of Mozart and of modern music, both of which AHS detested), the news broadcasts and use of NYT staff and material, the policy on advertising and its juxtaposition with news broadcasts, the quality of announcements and commercials, the Program Guide, the station's function in advertising and promoting the NYT, its finances, its equipment and technical operation, and the Rural Radio Network (later called the QXR Network), comprising stations carrying WQXR's programs. Includes preparations to separate programs of WQXR-AM and WQXR-FM (1966), AHS's retirement as chairman of the board, his replacement by Sanger, and Ivan Veit's appointment as president, Sanger's memorandum recalling the NYT's acquisition of WQXR (1964), special broadcasts during the International Typographical Union strike, and controversy with AOS, John Oakes, and Sanger over retaining expanded news and editorial broadcasts after the strike (1962-1963), Sanger's assignment to the International Edition in Paris (1961), new transmitting facility in Maspeth, new by-laws (1952-1954), interference from other stations, controversy with Douglas A. McKinnon (1948-1949), Jack Gould's reports on programs and policies, Nicholas Roosevelt's memorandum on key personnel (1945-1947), political advertising, correspondence about the NYT's acquisition of WQXR (1944), correspondence and reports about the station and its principal owner and president, John V. L. Hogan, and correspondence about the NYT's sponsorship of a program on the station (1935-1938).</p>"}
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>" See also: Buildings: Commercial - 43rd Street\nColumbia University: Bicentennial\nDownes, Olin\nEmergency Civil Liberties Committee\nEuropean Children\nFacsimile Systems\nLabor Relations: Strikes - Deliverers\nNorth American Airlines\nPoetry Written by AHS: WQXR\nWeather\nYouth Forums "}
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1935
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1968
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1935

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