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(9/24/2001) America's Most-Listened-To Classical Station WQXR Raises Money For New York City.
WQXR FM, the classical music station of The New York Times Company, produced and aired — on Thursday, September 20th — a live broadcast of The New York Philharmonic’s fundraising performance of Brahms's German Requiem for World Trade Center disaster relief.
WQXR granted the request of New York public radio station WNYC-FM to broadcast the concert in an unprecedented sharing of programming. WNYC is planning a tape-delayed transmission during the week of September 24.
WQXR has also created an on-air initiative to help revive New York’s hard-hit theater industry. For two weeks, Monday through Friday from October 1 through 12, “WQXR Takes You To The Theater” will promote Broadway’s offerings via a series of announcements, as well as a daily give-away of a pair of theater tickets and dinner for two at Jack Rose Restaurant in the heart of the theater district.
WQXR, whose listeners are avid theatergoers, is donating the airtime for this initiative. “Thousands of heroic people are working to repair the physical damage inflicted on our city by the worst of human nature,” said Tom Bartunek, WQXR president and general manager. “But repairing the spiritual damage will involve every New Yorker, as well as the New York institutions that promote the best of human nature. Now more than ever, we need what New York’s theaters and cultural organizations have to offer. And now more than ever, these organizations need us.”
96.3 FM WQXR is America’s most-listened-to commercial classical radio station, with nearly a million listeners tuning in each week. Owned by The New York Times, WQXR made its debut on the air in 1936 and has received more than 30 excellence-in-broadcasting awards.
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