New York Public Radio history

The last time the New York public radio station WNYC had a new boss, in 1995, Rudolph W. Giuliani was mayor, and the station had an audience of about one million listeners a month and an operating budget of $8 million.

On January 7, 1997 the City transferred ownership of the licenses to the WNYC Foundation and on March 11, 1997, the licenses were assigned by the Foundation to WNYC Radio.

With the launch of wnyc.org in 1998, the station extended its virtual community internationally.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 destroyed WNYC-FM's transmitter atop the World Trade Center.

On June 16, 2008 NYPR moved from its 51,400 square feet (4,780 m) of rent-free space scattered on eight floors of the Manhattan Municipal Building to a new location at 160 Varick Street, near the Holland Tunnel.

On October 8, 2009 NYPR took control of classical music station WQXR-FM, then at 96.3 FM. WQXR-FM's intellectual property (call letters and format) was acquired from the New York Times Company as part of a three-way transaction with Univision Radio.

On June 6, 2011, the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority agreed to sell four FM stations in northern New Jersey to New York Public Radio.

The nonprofit group announced on Wednesday that its new chief executive would be Goli Sheikholeslami, who has led Chicago Public Media, which owns the radio station WBEZ, since 2014, and is a former executive at The Washington Post and Condé Nast.