WQBJ

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WQBJ (Q-103) is the callsign of a Classic Rock radio station licenced to Cobleskill, New York and serving the Mohawk Valley and the western Capital District of New York as well as the Oneonta and Utica-Rome areas. The station is owned by Regent Communications and broadcasts on 103.5 MHz at 50,000 watts ERP from a tower west of Cobleskill. It is a simulcast of 103.9 WQBK-FM Rensselaer which it has simulcasted the programming of since 1994 through several variations of rock music.

The station signed on in 1987 as WACS-FM with an adult contemporary format. In 1989, WACS was sold to the owners of 98.3 WSHZ and the took a simulcast of that station's oldies format (SHO Radio) as WSHQ. The sale of WSHZ to the owners of WTRY in 1992 led to a return to adult contemporary (albeit satellite fed) on 103.5 as a stop gap for the sation before it was sold to then-WQBK-FM owner Radio Enterprises in 1994. Radio Enterprises changed the calls to the current WQBJ and used it to simulcast WQBK-FM's then-mainstream rock format (first Q-104, then The Edge) which would flip the next year to modern rock.

Radio Enterprises was bought out by Clear Channel Communications, which had owned a minority share of the company, in 1997 and in 1999 the Edge stations changed their formats to active rock, a format that remained through Clear Channel divesting the stations to Regent Communications in 2000. The current classic rock format went into place on December 16, 2005 in conjunction with the departure of Howard Stern (whose show had been on the station dating back to its period as Q-104) to Sirius Satellite Radio.

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FM radio stations in the Albany / Schenectady / Troy market (Arbitron Market #62)

In-Town:
88.3 | 89.1 | 89.7 | 90.3 | 90.7/94.9 | 90.9 | 91.5 | 92.3 | 93.7 | 94.5 | 95.5 | 96.3 | 96.7
98.3 | 99.5 100.9 | 102.3 | 103.1 | 103.9 | 104.5¹ | 104.9 | 105.7 | 106.5 | 107.7

Outside the Metro
Saratoga Springs/Glens Falls and Vermont: 91.9 | 94.7 | 95.9 | 97.5 | 98.5 | 100.3
101.3 | 101.7 | 102.7 | 107.1
Mohawk Valley: 97.3 | 97.7 | 101.9 | 103.5
Columbia/Greene Counties: 93.5 | 97.9 | 98.5
Notes:
¹ Changing to WTMM-FM on 12/18

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