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Graham Parker – New VP of WQXR

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People can have different relationships with WQXR besides broadcast.  Radio isn’t just FM anymore.  Great content will find people wherever they are – we need to open up the definition of what radio is.

Graham Parker, the new VP of Classical WQXR.  Parker is enthusiastic about the variety of platforms and programming coming out of WQXR, both on the air and online.  He comes to WQXR most recently from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, an organization that has a unique philosophy of what an orchestra is.

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WQXR – Smart Thinking

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Kudos to CEO Laura Walker and the WQXR/WNYC staff for having the vision to hire yet another creative thinker.  Graham Parker has been the Executive Director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, where he has been doing brilliant work.  He will fill the newly-created post of Vice President of Classical 105.9 WQXR.  Parker has a deep set of skills in business and live music production, is innovative and openminded, and I know first hand that his radio sense more than makes up for not having run an actual station before. From the press release: “Graham’s reputation as an innovative … Continue Reading

More From AMPPR – Part Deux

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Some continued reporting from AMPPR attendees.  Valerie Stains is a freelance producer who spent many years at NPR doing a variety of jobs.  She reports on two sessions:

FRED  CHILD, host of Performance Today (Air Talent Training)

As he has done for past radio conferences, popular PT host Fred Child had sent out a pre-conference call for sample air checks to be critiqued at his session, “Air Talent Training.”  When absolutely nothing arrived before the gathering,

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More from AMPPR

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I asked some of the attendees at the AMPPR conference in NYC to write reports for this blog.  Here is the first of two installments:

From John Pitman, Music Director at All Classical in Portland OR:

While visiting the facilities of WQXR/WNYC, I felt like I was walking the halls of some vast intergalactic public radio space station:  multiple floors, corridors, elevators, seemingly uncountable staff… it was most impressive.

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