WRKW

It operates at the federally-assigned, effective radiated power of 50,000 watts, and transmits from a facility at 480 Tower Road in Summerhill, Pennsylvania.

For much of its existence, WRKW was known as WIYQ, first signing on the air as WEND-FM on July 15, 1962 from studios on Center Street in downtown Ebensburg, its licensed community.

This station originally broadcast on the frequency of 103.9 FM, but moved to 99.1 in 1966, which brought a power increase to 10,000 watts.

Throughout its existence, WIYQ went through a series of different formats, from middle-of-the-road to a brief period of top-40 in the late-1980s programmed by John Harlow [citation needed] who also did mornings with Tor Michaels.

Joe Vesnesky, a Glendale High School History Teacher by trade who also did sports play-by-play for another area station, hosted the show, gaining an especially strong following because of his mastery of the native Polish language and the powerful signal of WIYQ, which reached 27 counties in three states.

Gone were the popular oldies music and Jo-Jo's Polka Swing, which would resurface years later at a 5,000 watt AM radio station in Philipsburg.

In 2005, both WQKK and WGLU were purchased by Forever Broadcasting (who along with a subsidiary company own most of the commercial radio stations in the Johnstown market) then reverted to their original frequencies so the CHR station could serve the populated areas, and 99.1 could reach a wider portion of the market and took its current call sign of WRKW from 92.1, and a new name, Rocky 99.

WRKW is a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network, carrying pre-game and post-game coverage along with the games themselves.

WRKW on a SPARC HD Radio with RDS .
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