16 Facts About KQV

KQV is a non-commercial AM radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and covering the Greater Pittsburgh Region.

KQV is one of the oldest radio stations in North America.

Historically, KQV is recognized as one of the oldest radio stations in North America.

KQV is perhaps best recognized for two distinct eras: as a Top 40 station from 1958 to 1975, the majority of that time owned by the American Broadcasting Company, and as an all-news radio station from 1975 until the station suspended operations on December 31,2017.

KQV employees have generally traced the station's history back to Doubleday-Hill's initial 1919 activities, and a September 1934 newspaper article reported that the staff was in the process of preparing a celebration of the station's fifteenth birthday.

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KQV received financial backing from newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife and together they formed Calvary, Inc, purchasing the station from Taft that same year.

KQV remained an all-news station from 1975 until its sign-off at the end of 2017.

KQV had anchored weekends for more than 25 years until his retirement.

KQV's estate remained a partner in the station's ownership, with Robert W Dickey Jr.

The loss of these KQV executives took a toll on the station remaining financially viable.

KQV stated that he did not want to change KQV's format because all-news was the only one he knew or wanted to air on the station.

At the time of this announcement, KQV was broadcasting the all-news format, first adopted in 1975, each weekday, consisting of news, sports, traffic, business reports and weather, from 5 am to 7 pm The programming was similar to that of other traditional all-news stations, featuring "Traffic and Weather on the Eights, " sports at :15 and :45 past each hour, and business news at :20 and :50 past.

At the time it went silent, KQV was operating with 5,000 watts, with different directional patterns for day and night, from a five-tower transmitter site in Ross Township.

Longtime Pittsburgh broadcaster Chris Lash gave serious consideration to buying KQV before deciding instead to invest in a station near Buffalo, New York, in a similar situation, WSPQ.

KQV briefly signed back on from May 12,2018 to June 4, resetting the one-year counter on its license expiration, but still needed to find a permanent broadcasting site.

KQV ultimately returned to the air December 19,2019, simulcasting easy listening station WKGO.