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101.9 WPIX-FM Was Never a New Wave/ Punk Station

Once again history has been re-written in this article when it says WPIX had a New Wave/ Punk format. Call it what you will; alternative, punk/ new wave, modern rock,"new music", etc. but the fact is New York City has never had a station with this type of format; the closest was WLIR 92.7 FM on Long Island and WHTG 106.3 FM in New Jersey. WPIX 101.9 FM, (like K-Rock 92. FM years later), PLAYED many songs within the format but also played other types of rock.

Below is the former text for the WPIX-FM article. I didn't see anything in here to merge into WQCD -- everything already was there. If I've missed anything, go ahead and edit it in.

WPIX-FM was a New York City FM radio station operating at 101.9 MHz and owned and operated by Tribune Company.

History

WPIX-FM went through dozens of formats. In the early 1970's they played Album Rock then in 1975 Disco then Top 40 then in 1977 Top 40/Rock then by 1978 Progressive Rock. By 1979 they were Punk/New Wave Rock and by 1980 back to Top 40/Rock. In 1981 they evolve to Album Rock.

In January of 1982 they abruptly become Top 40 but evolve to AC by March of 1982. In 1983 they market the AC format as a love songs format though the station played some uptempo hits as well. Ratings were good by 1983 and were sustained until 1985. In 1985 they evolved to an eclectic AC format then an urban based AC by 1986. In evenings they began a Contemporary Jazz show in teh fall of 1986. By the winter of 1988 WPIX FM had a Hot AC format before 7 PM and Contemporary Jazz after 7 PM.

On August 10, 1988 WPIX FM switched to an eclectic format combining soft rock, contemporary jazz, soft R & B music, New Age Music, and AC cuts during the day while running contemporary Jazz by night. During the day the format was 50/50 vocal and instrumental while at night was almost completely instrumental.

Two weeks later the modified to more of a contemporary jazz format full time playing a couple R & B vocals per hour. This format came to be known as Smooth jazz. Call letters became WQCD "CD 101.9," much to the consternation of its fans. Today, "CD 101.9" has shifted to a smooth jazz format mixing in soft AC cuts from the 80's and 90's and today along with a music called "Chill". Tribune sold WQCD in the mid 1990's to Emmis Communications and its still owned by Emmis.

ALso since the late 1940's the WPIX call letters have been on Channel 11 licensed to New York, New York and owned by Tribune Broadcasting. During the years the calls were on 101.9 they were known as WPIX FM while Channel 11 had always been and still is WPIX.

ArglebargleIV 01:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Website Correction:

the Website Link For WQCD's Homepage Was A Wikipedia Link, I Fixed The Problem By Making It A Http:// Link.

Frank0115932 21:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

WPIX: New Format, New Letters Newsday (Melville, NY) August 9, 1988 Author: Paul D. Colford Estimated printed pages: 1

IN THE past few days, without fanfare, WPIX / 101.9 FM has dropped most of its adult-oriented pop music in favor of contemporary jazz sounds. The move signals the death of WPIX, for next Monday at midnight the station's new call letters will be WQCD - as in "CD 101.9."

Sade, Kenny G, Sting, Spyro Gyra and Natalie Cole are among the artists now being featured. The switch, which follows years of dismal ratings and shifting musical slants, gives the station a niche that will spare it head-to-head competition in the glutted New York radio market.

Although there are jazz stations based in Newark, N.J., and Stamford, Conn., New York City has not had a commercial jazz outlet since WRVR went off the air eight years ago. (At the same time, purists may dispute whether Spyro Gyra and Kenny G are, in fact, jazz artists.) A new general manager, Raymond A. Gardella, and a new program director, Bob Linden, joined the Tribune Co. station in recent weeks to implement the changes.

Station spokesman Phil Rappoport said no decision had been made on which, if any, on-air personnel might be affected by the conversion to "CD 101.9." It's expected, however, that some broadcasters now employed by the station will be dismissed to make room for new disc jockeys. Edition: ALL EDITIONS Section: PART II Page: 13

Index Terms: RADIO.WPIX. Copyright (c) 1988 Newsday, Inc. Record Number: 1018855463

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CD 101.9 on HD Radio

Is CD 101.9 still broadcasting on 101.9-HD2? The CD101.9 website is down, and I don't have an HD radio to check this out. Any help appreciated. Freddicus (talk) 15:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

WEMP reverting back to WRXP call-letters

In light of the recent format change at WEMP from all-news returing to their previous alternative rock format and Merlin Media's announcement almost immediately after that it has filed an application with the FCC requesting consent for the reassignment of their call-letters back to WRXP (See here) wouldn't it be prudent to have the WRXP page completely deleted including the current #REDIRECT so that if and when the FCC gives the OK it will be a task of simply doing a move whereas and correct me if I am wrong but moves cannot be done from created page to another created page i.e. WEMP cannot be moved to WRXP because WRXP is a created page even though it has a #REDIRECT so as far as I am aware the only way to circumvent this is for a Wikipedia admin to completely wipe the slate clean. What does everybody think about this proposal? TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 05:28, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Oh and as part of wiping that slate clean a temporarily block on editing the WRXP page should be added until the actual call-letter switch takes place to prevent WRXP from being redirected back to WEMP. Again want to start with a clean slate don't we? TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 05:33, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposal withdrawn for obvious reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheGoofyGolfer (talk • contribs) 18:16, 25 July 2012‎

Discussion of cut/paste/move from WRXP to WFAN-FM

An attempt to move the article WRXP to WFAN-FM was unable to be completed, as a prompt appeared stating that an article by the name WFAN-FM already existed. At the time, the WFAN-FM article was nothing more than a redirect to the WRXP article. Since the station's call sign change had been made (and is now official in the Federal Communications Commission database), the article was cut/paste from WRXP to WFAN-FM. If possible, please keep the article at WFAN-FM; if a delete is necessary, please go ahead and relocate the article back to the WRXP redirect, then move the article to WFAN-FM. (The recent article moves I performed allowed a move of one article to another if that 2nd article was nothing more than a redirect; is this still possible?)Darrel M (talk) 11:47, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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