WKQL

For the radio station in Brunswick, Georgia, formerly known as WKQL, see WMUV.

WKQL
City	Brookville, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Brookville/DuBois, Pennsylvania
Branding	Kool 103.3
Slogan	Classic Hits
Frequency	103.3 MHz
First air date	February 14, 2000
Format	Classic Hits
ERP	10,500 watts
HAAT	151 meters
Class	B1
Facility ID	81912
Callsign meaning	"KooL" (part of branding)
Affiliations	Classic Hits (ABC Radio)
Owner	Renda Broadcasting Corporation (Renda Radio, Inc.)
Website	kool1033fm.com

WKQL (103.3 FM) is a classic hits formatted radio station. The station is licensed to Brookville, 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 stations WPXZ and WECZ.

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 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 classic hits, 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.

Programming

Some of Kool 103.3's programming includes: Larry King (no relation to Larry King formerly of CNN), Maria Danza, Dwayne Dancer, Steve Gunn and Smokin' Kevan Browning.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WKQL

Radio-Locator information on WKQL

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WKQL

Radio stations in the Punxsutawney–DuBois, Pennsylvania market

Note: This market also includes Jefferson and Clearfield Counties in Pennsylvania.

By AM frequency	900 1420 1540

By FM frequency	88.1 90.5 93.1 94.7 95.9 96.7 98.7 102.1 102.9 103.3 104.1 105.5 106.5 107.3 107.9

By callsign	W234AV W290BO WCOH-FM WCED WCPA WDSN WECZ WKQL WMKX WOWQ WOKW WPXZ-FM WQYX WRPV WRQV WZDB

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

Classic Hits radio stations in Pennsylvania

By frequency	730 1460 1570 92.1 92.3 92.3 94.5 95.3 96.1 96.1 96.7 97.1 97.3 98.1 98.9 99.3 100.5 103.1 103.3 103.9 104.9 105.3 107.1

By callsign	WABT WAPY WCDW WGMF WHJB WHNA WKPL WKQL WLSW WOGL WOWY WPHD WPKL WQKY WQTW WRRN WRVV WSOX WTTC-FM WWRR WWSW-FM WYCY WZMF

By city	Brookville Ellwood City Emporium Greensburg Harrisburg Hawley Latrobe Lehman Township Nanticoke Philadelphia Pittsburgh Red Lion Riverside Scottdale Scranton South Waverly State College Susquehanna Towanda Tunkhannock Uniontown University Park Warren

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania See also Oldies Classic Hits

Renda Broadcasting

Radio Stations

Pittsburgh, PA	WSHH

Jacksonville, FL	WEJZ WGNE-FM

Fort Myers / Naples, FL	WWGR WJGO WGUF WSGL

Indiana, PA	WDAD WQMU WCCS WLCY

Punxsutawney, PA	WPXZ-FM WECZ WKQL

Greensburg, PA	WHJB

Coordinates: 41°04′05″N 79°04′59″W / 41.068°N 79.083°W / 41.068; -79.083

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