Abstract

In One Ear

This article focuses on the past and presents of the radio station WQXR of the U.S. Ten years ago an experimental engineer named John Hogan was testing the acoustical range of a new method of high-fidelity broadcasting by playing recordings of classical music on his experimental station, W2XR, at the top end of the radio dial where the numbers run high. The average set at that time could not reach 1560 on the dial, but Megan was flooded with mail asking for advance notice of the time when he was going to broadcast certain recorded classics. Today some five hundred thousand people in and around New York City swear by WQXR, the station's present name, and thousands more in other parts of the country wonder why their community doesn't have a QXR.