WKQW (1120
AM) is a
radio station
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broadcasting a
sports
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format. It previously had an
oldies
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Since 2 ...
format until July 13, 2012, and before that, a
classic country format until August 15, 2008.
Licensed to
Oil City, Pennsylvania
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, United States, the station is currently owned by Joe Ladanosky and Joe Wilkie, through licensee J2 Media, LLC. WKQW remains Venango County's only locally operated, programmed, and managed full-service radio station.
History
WKQW was founded in 1982 by local broadcaster and engineer Stephen M. Olszowka, but did not go on the air until December 1987. For most of its early years, WKQW operated out of an office at 234 Elm Street in Oil City. The station moved to 222 Seneca Street in 1993 when WKQW-FM went on the air.
Olszowka died suddenly on February 14, 2004, at age fifty-four and ownership of the station passed to his mother Helen Gesing Olszowka. She sold the station less than a year later to William Hearst's Clarion County Broadcasting for $540,000.
In November 2018, the radio station, along with
WKQW-FM, was sold to Robert Lowe, owner of Twilight Broadcasting, Inc. The sale, at a price of $265,000, was completed on February 12, 2019.
In July 2019, WKQW added an FM translator with assigned calls of W281CA at the frequency of 104.1 FM, broadcasting at a power of 250 watts.
Effective November 7, 2022, Twilight Broadcasting sold WKQW and translator W281CA to Joe Ladanosky and Joe Vilkie's J2 Media, LLC for $38,000.
WKQW maintains its studio and office presence and staff at 806C Grandview Road in Oil City.
Gallery
Image:WKQWLogo.png, Logo used during WKQW's classic country format. Last used in mid-August 2008
Image:WKQW Office.jpg, WKQW studio building from 1993 to 2010, at 222 Seneca Street, Oil City
References
External links
Fox Sports & Mix 96 Facebook
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{{Daytime-only radio stations in Pennsylvania
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