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 formatted broadcast

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 radio station

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 licensed to Dubois, Pennsylvania

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DuBois, Pennsylvania

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/Punxsutawney

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/Clearfield

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 area. WOWQ is owned and operated by First Media Radio, LLC.
For many years, WOWQ had been the sister station of WCED, also licensed to DuBois. The station made its debut seven years after WCED first signed on. Like many FM stations that were part of an AM portfolio, this station made its debut as WCED-FM, simulcasting its AM sister for portions of the broadcast day, separating for a period during the day as part of a 1965 FCC mandate requiring combination AM/FM licensees to originate separate programming for at least half of the broadcast day.

In 1981, the separate-programming rule was repealed by the FCC, but WCED-FM went the opposing direction and adopted the call letters WOWQ and the moniker Q102, becoming a fully independent station with its own programming.