WQSH
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| City | Malta, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Capital District, southern Adirondacks |
| Branding | Rewind 105.7 |
| Slogan | Hits From the 80s, 90s and More |
| Frequency | 105.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | W256BU (99.1, Albany, relays HD2) |
| First air date | November 1996 (as WNYQ from Queensbury) November 28, 2006 (as WBZZ in Malta) |
| Format | FM/HD1: Gen X-based Classic hits HD2: Urban Contemporary "Hot 99.1" |
| ERP | 7,100 watts |
| HAAT | 187 meters |
| Class | B1 |
| Facility ID | 6613 |
| Callsign meaning | W Q CruSH (previous format) |
| Former callsigns | WNYQ (1996-2006, Queensbury) WBZZ (2006–2010) |
| Owner |
Townsquare Media (Townsquare Media of Albany, Inc.) |
| Webcast |
WQSH Webstream WQSH-HD2 Webstream |
| Website |
rewind1057.com hot991.com (HD2) |
WQSH (105.7 FM) are the call letters of a radio station licensed to Malta, New York. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts with 7.1 kilowatts ERP from the Bald Mountain tower formerly used by the now-defunct analog signal of WNYT, in the Town of Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York. WQSH signed on in 1996 and relocated to its present city of license in 2006. WQSH currently airs a classic hits format branded as "Rewind 105.7." Their current slogan is "Rewind 105.7: Capital Regions Retro Mix from the 80s and 90s".
Prior to its move into the Capital District (Albany-Schenectady-Troy) market, the station was based in Queensbury outside Glens Falls until its signoff in May 2006.
WQSH's signal can be heard throughout the entirety of the Capital District, and reaches as far north as Warrensburg and Ticonderoga, and can be heard as far south as Poughkeepsie and Kingston. However, WQSH's signal is impeded significantly to the west due to WBNW-FM on 105.7 in Binghamton as well as to the east by WWEI in Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 105.5.
After the passage of FCC Docket 80-90 in 1983 deregulated FM station classes, the idea of putting a high-watt FM station in the Glens Falls-Lake George area was approached by several people. Around 1990, WENU owner Donald Heckman successfully petitioned the FCC to grant a 25,000 watt radio station to his hometown of Queensbury. After several years of delays, the Heckman-owned Bradmark Communications won the allocation in 1993, originally holding the WWAZ calls until 1995, then the WSRQ calls until June 1996 when it took the WNYQ calls.
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