WRQK-FM
active rock radio station in Canton, Ohio
WRQK-FM (106.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Canton, Ohio, featuring a mainstream rock format known as "Rock 106.9". Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., the station serves both the Canton and Akron metro areas and is the local affiliate for The House of Hair with Dee Snider. WRQK-FM's studios are located on Freedom Ave NW in North Canton, while the transmitter located off 22nd St NW in Canton. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WRQK-FM broadcasts in HD Radio, and is available online via iHeartRadio.
History
WRQK-FM began broadcasting as WCNO on March 1, 1961. The new station was owned by the Greer Group, also owner of WAND in Canton; the two stations became WNYN and WNYN-FM in 1967. Both stations were purchased in 1965 by Don Keyes, who had made his mark as a national programmer for legendary station owner Gordon McLendon. In 1971, he sold the FM station to Susquehanna Radio Corporation, the owners of WHLO in Akron, whereupon WNYN-FM became WHLQ.
Susquehanna sold the station in 1978 to the owners of WINW, who applied to change the FM call letters to WHOF (for the "Hall of Fame" city of Canton) but were rebuffed by the owners of WTOF, another local FM station. (Coincidentally, WRQK-FM now has an iHearMedia, Inc. sister station in the Akron/Canton cluster using the WHOF call letters.) The station adopted an automated Top 40 format and became WOOS-FM on June 1, 1979.
“WRQK-FM” enters the record as active rock radio station in Canton, Ohio. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what WRQK-FM, active and rock can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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