WRQI (94.3 FM) is a classic rock music-formatted radio station in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, United States, and owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC, and is branded as "Rocky 94.3 & 107.7". WRQI simulcasts with WRQW 107.7 FM (licensed to Cooperstown), serving Titusville, Oil City, Franklin, and Tionesta. Until May 2007, this station was known as WHUZ.
WRQI, the first of these two stations, first went on the air January 19, 1979 as WYSS. Though licensed to Saegertown, the station operated from Meadville (where it remains today), the seat of government from Crawford County, Pennsylvania, for most of its existence. The station signed on with a Top 40 format under the ownership of Saegertown Broadcasting Inc., a company headed by Arthur Arkelian, and maintained studios on Broad Street in Saegertown.
The call sign was changed from WYSS to WEOZ in 1983. With the call sign came a change in ownership, as the station was sold to Osborne Broadcasting, a company headed by Thomas Osborne, that year. The station also moved shortly afterwards from Saegertown to Meadville. WEOZ was then sold to Community First Broadcasting, a company headed by Werner Poegel, in August 1988 for $436,943.00. The format was then changed to a blend of adult contemporary and oldies programmed mostly from compact disc which was novel at the time. Community First Broadcasting maintained ownership of WEOZ until financial circumstances forced the station to go dark in August 1991. The station was dark for several years.
The station returned under a new call sign, a new owner, and a new format. Rechristened as WMDE, the station programmed a modern rock format under its previous owner, the now defunct Great Circle Broadcasting. Ultimately the station was sold to Forever Broadcasting with the format being tweaked to "classic hits" as WUZZ 94.
Forever Broadcasting was issued a construction permit for a new "drop-in" frequency of 107.7 in Cooperstown. The permit was granted on September 11, 1997. The station signed on as WMHU September 7, 2000 as a simulcast outlet of WMDE. In March of the following year, the call sign was changed to WHUG, and the station became a simulcast outlet of WXXO and WOXX in Cambridge Springs and Franklin, duplicating the "Kiss" monikered adult contemporary programming offered on those two channels.
かつては多数の生放送パーソナリティを擁していたこの放送局は、年月を経て大部分が自動化された。生放送番組には、午前6時から午前10時まで番組ディレクターのロッキン・リッチが司会を務める「WUZZ Rockin' Morning Show」や、リノが司会を務める午後の生放送番組などがあった。週末は通常自動化され、パーソナリティなしでWUZZの音楽が流れていた。ディー・スナイダーとサミー・ヘイガーが司会を務めるシンジケート番組は、かつて「Big Hair Saturday Night」が放送されていた時間帯に土曜日の夜に放送された。これもまた、この放送局からローカル番組や生放送パーソナリティが姿を消した一例である。姉妹局Froggyでタッドポール役を務めるデイブ・イングリッシュは、以前は生放送だった平日の昼の番組のナレーションを担当した。
2018年6月11日、WUZZとWUUZは「Rocky 94.3 & 107.7」にブランド名を変更しました。[ 3 ] 6月12日、WUZZとWUUZはコールサインをそれぞれWRQIとWRQWに変更しました。この放送局は、Westwood One衛星クラシックロックXフォーマットを特徴としており、地元のパーソナリティ「Rockin'」Rich Antonが午前6時から午前10時までの朝のドライブタイムに生放送を行い、日曜から金曜の午後7時から午前0時まではシンジケート番組のUltimate Classic Rockを放送しています。
2022年10月12日、Forever MediaがWRQI、WRQW、およびミードビル/フランクリンの全放送局を含む34局を、ステートカレッジを拠点とするSeven Mountains Mediaに1737万5000ドルで売却することが発表された。[ 4 ]この取引は2023年1月1日に完了した。[ 5 ]
Rocky 94.3/107.7は、 NFLシーズン中、ピッツバーグ・スティーラーズのフットボール中継を放送するラジオ局です。
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