WQXR

WQXR is a radio station that broadcasts from New York City on 96.3 MHz FM, and is America's most listened-to classical music station. It was officially founded in 1936, when the station moved to 96.3 FM. The New York Times bought the station in 1944.

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The founder of WQXR, John Vincent Lawless Hogan, was one of the abundant number of pioneers of video transmission via radio waves in the late 1920s. He began experimenting with the transmission of images on March 26, 1929, when he began an experimental broadcasting station on 2100kc. It was called W2XR: the "W" indicated that the station was east of the Mississippi River; at the time a "2" indicated that a station was educational rather than commercial; and "XR" was an abbreviation for "experimental radio." In 1933, the Federal Radio Commission (now the FCC) gave permission for W2XR to use double-wide channels on 1530, 1550, and 1570 kHz amplitude modulation. Hogan decided to supplement his experimental transmissions of images with classical music. The station soon developed a following of listeners who either didn't know about or weren't interested in the video transmission (many new radios had 1550 at the end of their dials). Hogan gave up his video transmission experiments, and a well-respected radio station soon developed out of what he had built.

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