CQ COMMUNICATIONS ACQUIRES WORLDRADIO MAGAZINE

              

How Your WorldRadio Subscription
Will Be Honored By CQ

 

Choices, choices, choices!

 

CQ Communications, Inc., publisher of CQ Amateur Radio, Popular Communications, and CQ VHF magazine, has acquired WorldRadio magazine.  As part of our responsibility of that acquisition, we will be fulfilling WorldRadio subscriptions with publications from the CQ Group.  

WorldRadio will continue to be published as an online-only magazine, but our current plan is to make it open-access, without charging for subscriptions.  

Since there are several different possible subscription situations with our new friends from WorldRadio, we have several different solutions designed to fit everyone’s needs.  We are confident that one of the solutions will fit your personal situation, and we pledge to work with you to the best of our ability to make the transition as smooth and pleasant as possible.  However, you have choices to make! 

 

Here are the situations that we’re anticipating:

 

Regular (Non-Life) WorldRadio Subscribers

Current subscribers to WorldRadio will receive one issue of CQ for each issue of WorldRadio they are currently scheduled to receive.  For instance, if you have 18 issues of WorldRadio still due, you will receive 18 issues of CQ instead. 

If you are already a subscriber to CQ, we will add the WorldRadio issues to your existing CQ subscription. 

You will also have the option of having your WorldRadio subscription fulfilled with either Popular Communications magazine, or CQ VHF magazine on a year for year basis.  That is, if you have 12 issues remaining on your WorldRadio subscription and decide that you’d rather receive CQ VHF instead of adding on to your CQ sub, we’d set you up with a year's worth of CQ VHF, which means you’d receive the next 4 issues of CQ VHF, which is a quarterly publication. 

 

Life Subscribers to WorldRadio

Here’s where things get more complicated!

Many subscribers to WorldRadio have signed up for a very deeply discounted lifetime subscription.  None of the subscription price you paid for that Life Subscription has come to CQ, making it economically impossible for CQ to continue to honor your old WorldRadio Life Subscription.  But, you’re not going to be left out in the cold.  Instead, we will honor the full amount you paid for your WorldRadio Life Subscription, and apply that full amount to: A) A new subscription to CQ if you don’t already subscribe, at the regular CQ subscription rate of $36.95 per year, or B) Apply the amount you paid to a subscription to one of CQ’s sister publications, CQ VHF, or Popular Communications. 

For example, if you paid $100 for a WorldRadio life subscription way back in 1987, and have received issues ever since, we’ll credit the entire $100 towards a new CQ subscription, which will have CQ coming your way for the next 33 months ($100 divided by $36.95 = 2.71 years which we’ll round up to 2-3/4 years or 33 months. 

What if you also have a life subscription to CQ?  You have to option of transferring your “Lifetime Value” to another of the CQ Publications: Popular Communications, or CQ VHF, using the same calculations as described above.  For instance, if you have a $100 “Lifetime Value” to your credit and decide that you’d like to receive Popular Communications, the subscription you’d receive would be 37 issues ($100 divided by the Popular Communications rate of $32.95 = 3.03 years, which we will round up to 37 issues). 

If none of the above life subscription solutions fits your interests, there’s still another option available to you: Use your “Lifetime Value” to purchase items of equal value from the CQ Bookstore.  That includes books, CDs, calendars and apparel, and that value may also be applied towards any shipping charges. 

We want to make you as happy as possible during this transition.  Think about how you’d like us to handle your personal situation. If your choice is to receive CQ (or extend your current CQ subscription) no action is necessary – your subscription will begin with the February issue (or extended appropriately). If you’d like to receive one of our other publications, please notify us in writing by mail or fax by January 5th. Simply jot down your complete World Radio address label information and note your magazine choice below it. Mail/fax this information to us at CQ Communications, Inc. 25 Newbridge Road, Hicksville NY 11801, fax 516-681-2926. 

And remember, WorldRadio will continue to be published as an online-only magazine, with open-access through the CQ web page <www.cq-amateur-radio.com>, without charge.

 

Choices, choices, choices! 

 

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