With adjustments made at the station in the fall of 2009, The Quake broadcast (and now streams) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, offering listeners a wide variety of music including: jazz, funk, soul, indie, punk, hip-hop, blues, techno and other genres.In Spring 2024, The Quake returned, but has now been converted into an events production club.
2001 - The initial internet broadcast on WQKE.org - marking the first time parents and friends not in the vicinity of Plattsburgh could listen to the Quake.
Bringing community members and college organizations together for a great cause (donating at least 939 cans to the local Interfaith Food shelf).
In the spring of 2012, WQKE received the Vice President of Student Affairs Community Service Award after the station participated in numerous community service endeavors over the course of the 2011–2012 academic year, headlined of their most successful Starve-a-thon can drives in the history of the event.
DJ Buddy Beast aka Anthony Gallina's a student of SUNY Plattsburgh and member of WQKE.
It was one of several State University of New York-owned student radio stations whose licenses were allowed to lapse that day, without filing for renewal.