WPTQ

The station originally signed on the air on July 14, 1972.[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2010/D2-2010-BC-YB-7.pdf 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook, page D-240] The station was originally a class A station located at 105.5 FM, owned by John Barrick alongside AM station WCDS (1440 AM, now WWKU; unrelated to the current WCDS). WOVO inherited a variety format from WCDS, which switched exclusively to country music upon WOVO's inception.{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Francis M.|date=1995|title=Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State|publisher=HOST Communications|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/History/Towers-Over-Kentucky-Nash-1995.pdf|via=World Radio History|isbn=9781879688933|pages=142; 143}}

In 1990, WOVO and WCDS were sold to Ward Communications. After a few months off the air due to strong winds toppling the transmission tower in 1991, the station had instituted three changes: the station changed frequencies to 105.3 FM to obtain a power increase, changed its call sign to WWWQ on March 1, and adopted a new contemporary hit radio format upon returning to the air on July 9, 1991{{r|Nash}}{{cite news|title=FM radio stations making changes|work=Park City Daily News|location=Bowling Green, Kentucky|last=Reagan|first=Stan|date=August 4, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyoeAAAAIBAJ&dq=WQXE&pg=PA2&article_id=6751,312288|via=Google Books}} following a tornado that affected the station's broadcasting facility that spring. On September 23, 1996, the station reversed their 1991 change of callsign and rechristened itself as WOVO.{{cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=70870&Callsign=WOVO |title=WOVO Call Sign History |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division}}

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In 1997, the station, along with WHHT, WXPC, WCDS, and four other stations in Kentucky, were acquired by a new business venture named Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, formed by Steve Newberry and former Kentucky governor Brereton Jones.{{cite news|title=Former governor buys radio stations|work=Park City Daily News|date=January 19, 1997|page=11A|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nssaAAAAIBAJ&dq=WOVO+Glasgow+KY&pg=PA6&article_id=4500,1573370|via=Google Books|access-date=June 9, 2024}} WOVO programming was simulcast over WCDS from its 1998 return to the air until it became a sports radio station in 2002.

On October 22, 2012, WPTQ and its classic rock format replaced WOVO on 105.3 FM; that station and its adult contemporary format moved to the Horse Cave-licensed 106.3 FM frequency. The 103.7 MHz frequency was returned to WHHT, which had been displaced from that frequency in 1998.{{Cite web|date=October 22, 2012|title=Stations On The Move In Glasgow, KY|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/79382/stations-on-the-move-in-glasgow-ky/|website=RadioInsight|language=en-US|access-date=June 8, 2024}}

On February 16, 2014, WPTQ launched an active rock format on its HD2 sub channel, branded as "98.3 The Edge", which is relayed on Bowling Green-licensed FM translator W252CV, at 98.3 FM.[http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/87697/edge-launches-in-bowling-green/ Edge Launches in Bowling Green]

In October 2024, it was announced that Commonwealth Broadcasting and Seven Mountains Media agreed to a station swap of several stations in the Bowling Green, and Glasgow, Kentucky area (including this station, W240CP, WOVO, and WWKU).{{Cite web |last=Venta |first=Lance |date=October 4, 2024 |title=Commonwealth Broadcasting And Seven Mountains Media To Swap Kentucky Stations |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/283340/commonwealth-broadcasting-and-seven-mountains-media-to-swap-kentucky-stations/ |access-date=January 11, 2025 |website=RadioInsight}}

On March 20, 2025, WPTQ rebranded as "105.3 The Goat".[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/296993/seven-mountains-relaunches-two-rockers-in-bowling-green/ Seven Mountains Relaunches Two Rockers in Bowling Green] Radioinsight - march 20, 2025

The station's HD Digital radio signal is multiplexed in the following manner.

This station began broadcasting on February 17, 2014, as a new active rock station, branded as 98.3 The Edge. The launch of WPTQ-HD2 made WPTQ the first radio station in the Bowling Green radio market to multi-cast their HD radio signal.[http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/87697/edge-launches-in-bowling-green/ The Edge Launches in Bowling Green] The subchannel is simulcast over an analog low-powered FM translator W252CV to make the HD radio subchannel available to those who do not own an HD Radio set. The effective radiated power of the translator is limited to 250 watts in order to avoid interference with WQXE in nearby Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which is also run at 98.3 Megahertz.

Since February 2016, the programming of W252CV has also been simulcast at 100.1 Megahertz, on translator W261BD. That translator previously simulcast WKLX's signal. Later that year, the station also began to simulcast over translator W251BT in Glasgow over 98.1 Megahertz.

WPTQ broadcasts a classic rock music format to the Bowling Green, Kentucky, area.{{cite web |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/station_information.htm |title=Station Information Profile}} The format features classic rock songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, as well as select Active Rock songs from the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to its usual music programming, WPTQ broadcasts the games of the National Football League's Tennessee Titans through the Titans Radio Network.{{cite web |work=Titans Radio |title=Titans Radio in Kentucky |url=http://titansradio.com/sectional.asp?id=28041 |access-date=March 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217071206/http://titansradio.com/sectional.asp?id=28041 |archive-date=February 17, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} It is also the flagship radio station for WKU Hilltoppers football from the Hilltopper Sports Network.

As an active rock station, the station broadcasts rock hits from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and the current decade, with only the biggest acts in rock and roll from the 1970s. The Local Show, which is now run on this station on Sunday nights at 7 p.m. Central time, is a local show showcasing local rock bands in southern Kentucky.[http://983theedge.com/about/ The Edge? WHAT!?!? | 98.3 The Edge]

On March 20, 2025, WPTQ-HD2 rebranded as "98.3 The Point".

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Category:Classic rock radio stations in the United States

Category:Glasgow, Kentucky

Category:Radio stations established in 1972

Category:1972 establishments in Kentucky

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