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WQXR for sale?

radioskeptic said:
If the Times does, in fact, plan to sell WQXR, who would buy it?

Greater Media? They probably still have money left over from selling Boston and Philadelphia area cable TV systems about ten years ago. They must have got close to $9 million from those sales, and that was probably what kept them going when they were losing money for years on the heritage classical stations they flipped in Philly and Detroit back in 1997. I heard they were barely billing enough to cover their increased operating expenses (for talent and promotion, especially TV), much less to service the debt on those stations (a fate I sincerely wish for any outfit with the temerity to flip WQXR!) -- though nobody knows for sure, because, as a privately held corporation, they don’t have to make any financial information public.
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Did you mean $9 billion? Because $9 million probably isn't enough to buy more than a peashooter AM in the NYC area, if that.

So who would buy it?
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Perhaps some sort of non-profit foundation, similar to the "WNYC Foundation" which purchased 93.9 from the city and preserved the format?
 
Oh, and, if WQXR does go to a non-profit, let's hope it's a specially designed non-profit like that one that owns all the shares in the for-profit corporation that is the licensee of KING-FM in Seattle (look it up) -- and not somebody like EMF.
 
I never quite figured out what purpose that translator served on 96.7, since 96.3 seems to come in fine over there
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The reason why 96.3 WQXR is on 96.7 W244AS (Oakhurst) is because of 95.9 WRAT....WRAT's signal causes splatter on 96.3 when using old analog/weaker radios.....The 96.7 signal allows people who still use those radios to listen to WQXR clearly.
 
No, GSP163, it isn’t splatter. It’s just plain second-adjacent interference, which should be a problem on any decent receiver unless the undesired signal is at least 20 dB stronger than the desired one.

“Splatter” is what happens when a negative modulation peak exceeds 100% on AM, not on FM. It’s possible, and even common, for positive peaks to exceed 100%; but negative peaks can’t go beyond that point, simply because you can't reduce the power of the transmitter to less than zero. When an amplitude modulator is overdriven on negative peaks, the result is clipping, with a square-topped, or rather a square-bottomed, waveform rich in odd harmonics that create AM sidebands extending outward for several channels, well beyond the first- and second-adjacents .

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wave for an explanation of the harmonic structure of square waves. But don’t try to look up “splatter” on wikipedia. All you’ll find is an article about “splatter films”!)
 
That first paragraph should have read:

No, GSP163, it isn’t splatter. It’s just plain second-adjacent interference, which should not be a problem on any decent receiver unless the undesired signal is at least 20 dB stronger than the desired one.
 
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