WQNY (103.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting 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. Licensed to

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...

, United States, the station serves that market and occasionally has appeared in the Elmira- Corning ratings, as the station can be heard well in the eastern and northeastern parts of that market. The station is owned by the Cayuga Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications.

History

WQNY was the flagship station of the

Rural Radio Network The Rural Radio Network (RRN) was an interconnected group of six commercial FM broadcasting, FM radio stations spread across upstate New York and operated from Ithaca, New York -- the first all-radio, no-wireline network in the world. It began o ...

(having replaced the station now known as WYXL) and signed on June 6, 1948, as WVFC. WVFC (later WRRA and then WEIV) served as flagship of the network from 1948 to 1981, when the network split up. On December 21, 1982, the station changed its call sign to the current WQNY. Q-Country 103.7 is currently formatted as a country station, with local personalities either live or voicetracking from 6 am to 7 pm weekdays and most of the weekend daytime hours also. Prior to Saga ownership, WQNY was once an AOR and Adult Contemporary (in the late 1980s) type station known as Q104 or Q104FM "Ithaca's Continuous Music Station" also "The best of the 60's, 70's and Today" as of 1986. In March 2010, WQNY began carrying its AM sister stations on its HD subchannels.

WNYY WNYY (1470 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Ithaca, New York, United States, the station serves the Ithaca area. The station is owned by the Cayuga Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications and features progra ...

now occupies the 103.7-HD2 channel, while

WHCU WHCU (870 AM) is a commercial radio station in Ithaca, New York, that programs a news/talk radio format. The station has been owned by the Cayuga Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications since 2005. Programming is simulcast on FM translato ...

occupies 103.7-HD3. The HD carriage enables the AM stations to overcome smaller, directional patterns used during nighttime hours. In August 2010, translator W240CB 95.9 FM signed on the air and was assigned to relay WQNY. Saga uses the translator to relay the WQNY HD3 feed,

. On August 30, 2018, WQNY-HD3 dropped its simulcast with WHCU and began stunting with a loop of songs by Ithaca-based

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. The station revealed its permanent format,

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, on September 4, 2018. WQNY is the most popular station in the Ithaca market, according to

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ratings, and is thus the most commercially successful of the former

stations.

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