WQSH (FM)


WQSH is a radio station licensed to Cobleskill, New York and serving the Mohawk Valley and the western Capital District of New York as well as the Oneonta and Utica-Rome areas. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts on 103.5 MHz at 50,000 watts ERP from a tower west of Cobleskill.

Station history

WQSH signed on in 1988 as WACS-FM with an adult contemporary format. In 1989, WACS-FM was sold to the owners of 98.3 WSHZ and the took a simulcast of that station's adult contemporary, and later oldies format ' as WSHQ. The sale of WSHZ to the owners of WTRY in 1992 led to a return to adult contemporary on 103.5 as a stop gap for the station before it was sold to then-WQBK-FM owner Maximum Media in 1994. Maximum Media changed the calls to WQBJ' and used it to simulcast WQBK-FM's then-mainstream rock format, which would flip the next year to modern rock. Maximum Media was purchased by Radio Enterprises in 1996.
Radio Enterprises was bought out by Clear Channel Communications, which had owned a minority share of the company, in 1997 and in 1999, the Edge'' stations changed their formats to active rock, a format that remained through Clear Channel divesting the stations to Regent Communications in 2000.
On July 1, 2019, WQBJ and WQBK-FM directed listeners to WQSH as their longtime rock radio format moved to the 105.7 FM frequency. On August 1, 2019, WQBJ ended stunting and took WQSH's former alternative rock format as "Alt 103.5", putting the station in competition with Pamal Broadcasting's WINU. WQBK-FM, its former simulcast partner, concurrently launched a soft AC format as "103.9 The Breeze".
WQBJ changed its call sign to WQSH on September 18, 2019.