I happened to flip my stereo onto 96.3 just now to hear TLC's "Waterfalls" song, and now some other pop tune is on. This station used to be oldies... did they change their format recently?
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WKQW 96.3 Oil City no longer oldies?
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collegeDJ86 said:
They've been AC for quite some time now. I believe since Bill Hearst acquired the station not long after Steve Olszowka died.
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Art Carlson
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Is the Oil CIty station on the second floor of a house next to a Wendy's like Hearst's Clarion station? 
No...they're on Seneca Street in downtown Oil City in a regular storefront building. To my knowledge, they've always been there, and probably will likely always be.
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Art Carlson
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It was a joke, Ken. The Clarion 'facility' was in an old house that I believe was deemed
uninhabitable for college students. So, he made it a radio station.
uninhabitable for college students. So, he made it a radio station.
Art Carlson said:
I never knew that. That's one radio facility I've never been to. I haven't been consumed with an overwhelming desire to go to Clarion, so I never found out where they were located.
But what you say about their building I do find amusing. When I worked at WLCY-FM in Blairsville back in 1993, it was in a converted house right at the intersection of Routes 22 and 119 (it has since been torn down), across from Chestnut Ridge golf course. The offices were on the second floor, studios on the ground floor. When John Longo bought it, he moved everything downstairs and made the upstairs into an apartment for the morning announcer.
I lived there for six months. The windows were covered with chicken wire (God forbid if there was ever a fire) because of golf balls hitting the house from golfers slicing out toward the highway.
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