Twilight Spins Off the Last of Oil City Stations
June 19, 2022Twilight Broadcasting has spun off the last of its two radio properties in Venango County.
Twilight, which acquired WKQW AM/FM from Clarion County Broadcasting in 2019, sold the adult contemporary-formatted FM station to Educational Media Foundation (owners of the K-Love brand of Contemporary Christian stations) last year for $192,000. The switch also brought a new set of call letters, WLOQ. The sale did not include the AM station, thus ending almost three decades of common ownership between the two entities.
The AM station, which retained its original call letters and its current all-sports format from Fox Sports, is currently under an LMA pending FCC approval of the sale from Twilight to Meadville-based Vilkie Communications, owned by northwest PA broadcast engineer Joe Vilkie.
WKQW is a 1,000 watt daytime-only station broadcasting at 1120AM, with an FM translator operating at 104.1 mHz and a power output of 250 watts. Station founder Stephen M. Olszowka first applied for the channel in 1982, with the station going on the air five years later. The same-named FM station signed on in 1993 as a full simulcast of its FM sister, though both would separate programming years later.
Olszowka died suddenly in 2004 at the age of 54. His estate sold the stations to Clarion County Broadcasting less than a year later.
Vilkie Communications owns classic hits formatted WMVL in Conneaut Lake (licensed to Linesville), and WGRP in Greenville.
