WQKT is a

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Wooster, Ohio Wooster ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County. Located in northeastern Ohio, the city lies approximately south-southwest of Cleveland, southwest of Akron and west of Canton. The population was 27,232 at t ...

, United States, broadcasting at 104.5

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with a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

format. The station carries

Cleveland Guardians The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League Central, Central division. Since , they have ...

baseball,

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football,

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basketball,

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football and basketball, football and basketball games of

The College of Wooster The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio. Founded in 1866 by the Presbyterian Church as the University of Wooster, it has been officially non-sectarian since 1969 when ownership ties with the Presbyterian Church ...

, along with various local High School sports broadcasts. WQKT is co-owned with AM station

WKVX WKVX is an AM broadcasting, AM radio station in Wooster, Ohio, United States, broadcasting at 960 kilohertz, kHz with a classic hits format. it is co-owned with FM station WQKT. Programming comes from Westwood One's Kool Gold, Classic Hits/Pop n ...

. WQKT FM began broadcasting as WWST-FM and for many years rebroadcasting the programming of its sister AM station WWST. The station signed on in 1947 at 5,000 watts while playing block programming. In 1962 in the wave of Rock Music broadcasting on the radio, WWST followed suit until the 1980s when it began Country Programming. It changed to WQKT on October 10, 1983 when it adopted its present country music format now using

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's Mainstream Country feed.

External links

Station History from WQKT Website
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