WQRW

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WQRW
Broadcast area Olean area
Frequency 93.5 MHz
BrandingThe Q 93.5
Programming
Format Hot adult contemporary
Affiliations CBS News Radio
Ownership
Owner
  • Robert Pfunter
  • (Pembrook Pines Mass Media N.A. Corp.)
History
First air date
2007
Call sign meaning
"Q Rock Wellsville"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 165995
Class A
ERP 1,100 watts
HAAT 234 meters
Transmitter coordinates
 42°11′25″N77°49′17″W / 42.19028°N 77.82139°W / 42.19028; -77.82139
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website q935wqrw.com

WQRW (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Wellsville, New York, United States, the station serves the Olean area. The station is currently (as of 2025) owned by the estate of its founding owner Robert Pfunter and features programming from AP Radio and Westwood One's Bright AC network. [2]

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Origins

The 93.5 frequency in Wellsville was previously used by WJQZ, now at 103.5 MHz.

WQRW was intended to be a repeater for WQRS, a classic rock station known on air as "Q Rock", when its construction permit was filed in fall 2006. However, WQRS's lone local jock, Scott Douglas, left the station and went to WESB/WBRR instead, and WQRS itself became little more than a satellite station. Instead, the ownership decided to give WQRW its own identity and thus was branded instead as "Q 93.5".

Pfunter (also spelled Pfuntner) was forced to sell off most of his other radio holdings (most of them to Sound Communications, who later sold to Seven Mountains Media in 2021) due to a bankruptcy in 2012 [3] tied to an unrelated issue related to his ownership of the Keuka Maid boat. [4] He retained ownership of WQRW until his death. [5] Pfunter died in August 2025. [6] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WQRW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WQRW Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Perham, Mary. "Bidders sought for radio stations". The Leader. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  4. ↑ Perham, Mary. "Keuka Maid starts to sink, is saved". Hornell Evening Tribune. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  5. ↑ Site of the Week 7/9/2021: Wellsville and Alfred, NY. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  6. ↑ Fybush, Scott (September 1, 2025). "Shula Bulks Up in Buffalo". NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  7. ↑ Malnoske, Andy (August 28, 2025). "18 Sports remembers Bob Pfunter". WETM - MyTwinTiers.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2025. Retrieved September 1, 2025.


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