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.
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.
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