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WQEW 1560 AM is a Radio Disney affiliate licensed to New York City. Its transmitter is located in Maspeth, Queens.

WQEW began its life as W2XR, an experimental television station operating at 2100 kHz, in 1929; it was owned by inventor John V. L. Hogan. In 1933, the FCC added three "high-fidelity" channels to the radio dial, which at that time had ended at 1500 kHz. Hogan received a license for one of these channels, 1550 kHz, and W2XR began to broadcast classical music recordings in addition to mechanical television; a year later, the television broadcasts ceased and W2XR became a radio station exclusively.

In 1936, Hogan and Elliott Sanger formed the Interstate Broadcasting Company, with the intention of turning W2XR into a commercial station. On December 3, 1936, W2XR became WQXR—the cursive form of the letter "Q" mimicks the number "2". An FM service, W2XQR, was added in 1939. The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement of 1941 formally extended the AM band to 1600 kHz, ending the "high-fidelity" service but keeping all four original stations near their existing dial positions; WQXR moved to its present dial position, 1560 kHz, and at the same time became a class I-B clear channel station.

The New York Post approached the company in the early 1940s about purchasing the stations. Sanger said publicly that he would have preferred to sell to The New York Times, and on July 25, 1944, the Times paid $1 million for ownership of Interstate Broadcasting Company. (The Times continued to operate its radio stations under the Interstate Broadcasting name for many years, but now uses the name The New York Times Radio Company.)

In 1971, the Times put WQXR up for sale. Many offers were received for the FM station, but none of the bids for 1560 AM were satisfactory to management. When the FCC agreed to waive rules prohibiting the stations from simulcasting, the Times took WQXR off the market.

In 1992 the station broke away from the FM simulcast for good, changing to a pop standards format, which was inaugurated by a live studio performance by Tony Bennett. The change followed close on the heels of WNEW's switch from standards to business information, and to reflect that heritage, WQXR changed callsign to WQEW. Although successful, the station's advertising revenues were not spectacular, and on December 28, 1998, the Times pulled the plug and affiliated with Radio Disney after entering an 8-year local marketing agreement with Disney. At the end of this agreement in late 2006, Disney will have the option to purchase the station from the Times or to extend the arrangement with the Times maintaining ownership.

WQEW does carry a live sports slate through arrangements with Disney's WEPN and CBS Radio's WFAN. The broadcasts air when the two all-sports stations have multiple games of local New York area sports teams to air simultaneously. Broadcasts of St. John's and Seton Hall men's basketball are most common.

References

External links

• [Radiodisney.com >> My Station >> New York]
• Radio Disney

AM radio stations in the New York City market'''
By frequency	570 | 620 | 660 | 710 | 770 | 820 | 880 | 930 | 970 | 1010 | 1050 | 1130 | 1190 | 1280 | 1330 | 1380 | 1430 | 1480 | 1560 | 1600 | 1660
By callsign	WABC | WADO | WBBR | WCBS | WEPN | WFAN | WINS | WKDM | WLIB | WMCA | WNSW | WNYC | WOR | WPAT | WQEW | WSNR | WWDJ | WWRL | WWRU | WWRV | WZRC Based on a list from [the New York Radio Guide].

 

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