WRQK-FM

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**WRQK-FM**

Broadcast area	Canton, Ohio
Branding	Rock 107
Slogan	Canton's Rock Station
Frequency	106.9 (MHz)
Format	Active Rock
ERP	27,500 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	W Roc(Q)K
Owner	Cumulus Broadcasting
Website	wrqk.com

WRQK-FM is a commercial FM radio station in Canton, Ohio, USA, broadcasting at 106.9 MHz with a active rock format. It is one of seven radio stations in Northeast Ohio owned by Cumulus Broadcasting. Its studios are located in "The Radio Center" at 4111 Martindale Road N.E. in Canton, which is also the transmitter site for formerly co-owned WINW (AM) Canton.

The station was founded circa 1949 as WAND-FM and was the sister station of WAND AM 900, now WCER. The stations became WCNS and WCNS-FM in the early 1960s, and then WNYN and WNYN-FM in the late 1960s.

Both stations were purchased in 1965 by the late Don Keyes, who had made his mark as a national programmer for legendary station owner Gordon McLendon. In 1971, he sold the FM station to Susquehanna Radio Corporation, the owners of WHLO (AM) Akron, and it became WHLQ.

Susquehanna sold the station in 1978 to the owners of WINW, who applied to change the FM call letters to WHOF (for the "Hall of Fame" city of Canton) but were rebuffed by the owners of WTOF, another local FM station. 106.9 adopted an automated Top 40 format and became WOOS-FM on June 1, 1979.

WOOS-FM changed its call sign to WRQK on August 3, 1985, taking on an album oriented rock music format. For a while, the station called itself "Goodrock 107," an apparent play on the name of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in nearby Akron. It formally changed from WRQK to WRQK-FM on February 14, 1989, when AM station WINW changed its call sign to WRQK. The AM station changed back to WINW six months later, but the FM call sign has remained WRQK-FM.

In late 2005, the station was sold to Cumulus Broadcasting. Then, on August 8, 2006, it was announced that WRQK would be sold to Clear Channel Communications, pairing WRQK with former partner WHLO-AM, as well as WARF-AM, WKDD-FM, and WJER-FM.