- WKQL
Infobox Radio station
name = WKQL
area = Brookville /DuBois, Pennsylvania
branding = "Kool 103.3"
slogan = "Oldies Radio"
airdate =February 14 ,2000
frequency = 103.3 (MHz)
format =Oldies
erp = 25,000watt s
class = B
owner = Renda Radio, Inc. (Renda Broadcasting Corporation)
website = http://www.kool1033fm.com/
callsign_meaning = "KooL" (part of branding)
affiliations = Classic Hits (ABC Radio )WKQL (103.3 FM) is an
oldies /rock music formattedradio station . The station is licensed toBrookville, Pennsylvania , where it maintains its transmitter facility, but the station's programming and administration functions originate in Punxsutawney, where it shares studio space with its affiliate stationsWPXZ andWECZ .Since signing on the air for the first time in February 2000, this station had used the call letters
WYTR , but had always maintained an oldies format, through ABC/SMN's Classic Hits (formerly "Oldies Radio") music format. At the time of its initial sign on, the station had very briefly used the call letters WBEU. Another set of call letters, WBKV (for Brookville), were proposed but never used.WKQL "Kool 103.3" serves Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson, and Cambria counties. The station is owned and operated by Renda Radio, Inc. The station added a local website (oldiesradioonline.com is ABC/SMN's site) http://www.kool1033fm.com/ in September of 2007.
History
The groundwork for WKQL was laid in the mid 1990s, when Anthony F. Renda, president of Renda Broadcasting Corporation, wanted to put a new radio station on the air that would also, in part, serve his hometown of
Indiana, Pennsylvania .Through a series of engineering maneuvers, Renda learned that 103.3 could go on the air with a powerful regional signal if some signal shuffling among other FM's in northwest Pennsylvania occurred. This affected stations in his hometown of Indiana, his co-owned property in neighboring Punxsutawney, and competing stations in St. Mary's, Brookville, Barnesboro, Emporium, Reynoldsville and Clearfield.
It took some time for the maneuvers to occur, but all of them were complete within four years. A new tower was built on a massive hillside on the outskirts of Brookville. There were many construction delays because of poor access, no electricity was available in the area, and unable to afford the station remaining silent any longer, Kool 103.3 finally went on the air in February 2000, using a gasoline-powered generator to provide electricity to the station's transmitter. The station finally had hard-wired electricity at the transmitter site less than six months later.
WKQL, though licensed to Brookville, converted former newsroom studio space for its sister stations in Punxsutawney to that of a permanent live on-air studio.
WKQL Today
WKQL continues as Kool 103.3, playing oldies music, and is also the radio home of Brookville Raiders football and basketball play-by-play broadcasts. WKQL is also an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey network. "Captain Lou" Jordan has been the station's morning DJ since going on the air for the first time. Prior to that, he had been (and still is) the midday personality at Punxsutawney-licensed affiliate station
WPXZ since 1986.Programming
Some of Kool 103.3's programming includes:
* "Captain Lou" Jordan and The Kool Morning Show
* Josh Widdowson and the "Kool103.3 Minute update" mornings
* Larry King (no relation to Larry King from CNN)External links
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