WKQW-FM

WKQW-FM

City of license	Oil City, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Meadville-Franklin area
Frequency	96.3 MHz
First air date	1993
Format	Adult Contemporary
ERP	6,000 watts
HAAT	100.0 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	63289
Transmitter coordinates	41°23′45.00″N 79°39′53.00″W
Affiliations	CBS Radio
Owner	Clarion County Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	WKQW (AM)
Website	WKQW-FM Online

WKQW-FM (96.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA, the station is currently owned by Clarion County Broadcasting Corporation.

History

In 1993, WKQW AM founder Stephen Olszowka successfully applied for an FM license, giving birth to WKQW-FM. The new station broadcast at 96.3 FM with an effective radiated power of 6,000 watts, and went on the air with an oldies format, separate from WKQW's adult contemporary format (which would later become talk).

Stephen Olszowka died suddenly on February 14, 2004 at the age of 54. After his death, his family made arrangements to sell the station to another owner the following year.

Following the takeover by William Hearst in 2005 (along with WKQW AM), WKQW-FM changed its format from Oldies to 80's based adult contemporary at around the same time. Though controlled from its Clarion County base, WKQW is still a very separate operation, maintaining its studio and office presence and its own independent staff at its original location: 222 Seneca Street in downtown Oil City. Oil City native Matthew Exley took over as operations manager in the spring of 2008 and is joined by the area's only full time news director Mark Heim and long time radio personality Sam Gordon.

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WKQW
• Radio-Locator information on WKQW
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WKQW