WQRW
Broadcast areaOlean area
Frequency93.5 MHz
BrandingThe Q 93.5
Programming
FormatHot adult contemporary
AffiliationsAP Radio
Ownership
Owner
  • Robert Pfunter
  • (Pembrook Pines Mass Media N.A. Corp.)
History
First air date
2007
Call sign meaning
"Q Rock Wellsville"
Technical information
Facility ID165995
ClassA
ERP1,100 watts
HAAT234 meters
Transmitter coordinates
42°11′25″N 77°49′17″W / 42.19028°N 77.82139°W / 42.19028; -77.82139

WQRW (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Wellsville, New York, United States, the station serves the Olean area. The station is currently (as of 2021) owned by Robert Pfunter and features programming from AP Radio and Westwood One's Bright AC network.[1]

Origins

The 93.5 frequency in Wellsville was previously used by WJQZ, now at 103.5 MHz.

WQRW was intended to be a repeater for WQRS, a classic rock station known on air as "Q Rock", when its construction permit was filed in fall 2006. However, WQRS's lone local jock, Scott Douglas, left the station and went to WESB/WBRR instead, and WQRS itself became little more than a satellite station. Instead, the ownership decided to give WQRW its own identity and thus was branded instead as "Q 93.5".

Pfunter was forced to sell off most of his other radio holdings (most of them to Sound Communications, who later sold to Seven Mountains Media in 2021) due to a bankruptcy in the early 2010s but has retained ownership of WQRW.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "WQRW Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ Site of the Week 7/9/2021: Wellsville and Alfred, NY. Retrieved July 9, 2021.


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