The Times Gets Ready

The staid (but never slow) New York Times last week bought a radio station. Sold for an undisclosed amount was Manhattan's WQXR (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), famed for its steady stream of good music. Aside from the obvious reason that a newspaper buys a radio station to disseminate news and keep its name before the public, one reason why the Times bought it probably had to do with a man named Hogan.

Paunchy, bespectacled John Vincent Lawless Hogan was a radio engineer long before the U.S. public thought of radio. For over ten years he has been deep in the development of radio facsimile, by which reproduced news pages roll out of a receiver in a reader's living room.

Hogan's carefully nursed baby in the broadcasting field has been WQXR, and he remained its president when the Times completed negotiations last week (pending FCC approval). Present station policies will be maintained, but in smart, inventive President Hogan and WQXR, the Times got a handy hedge against the postwar day when its famed slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" might have to be augmented by "All the News That's Fit to Facsimilize."

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