WQUI (FM)

WQUI (104.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Queens, NY and serves the New York City area. The station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting and carries an adult hits format. WQUI's offices are located at Hubbard's NY facility in the Financial District neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, while its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.

As WQNY-FM
On October 5, 1954, WQNY would launch an FM simulcast known as WQNY-FM. Like its parent AM station, WQNY-FM was an affiliate of the NBC radio network and carried a full-service format. Because NBC Radio already had a New York affiliate, owned and operated WNBC-AM-FM (then WRCA-AM-FM). This made New York one of the few markets to carry 2 affiliates of the same radio network. In 1968, WQNY-AM-FM would drop its full-service format in favor of a Top 40 format.

In 1971, the recently created Viacom would acquire both WQNY and WQNY-FM, making them the company's first radio assets. Just a year after the purchase, WQNY-FM would flip to an album oriented rock format branded on screen as "Q104".

As a simulcast of WRFM/WNSR/WMXV/WDBZ
In 1978, the station would flip again this time a talk radio format branded "Talkradio 56". In 1980, Sonderling Broadcasting (owner of WWRL and WKHK) would be purchased by Viacom. However, due to rules at the time which limited a broadcasting company to only owning 1 AM and 1 FM in a market, Viacom would sell WQNY and WQNY-FM to Bonneville International. Due to this sale, Bonneville itself was over the local limits at the time, since it was the owner of WRFM. Bonneville, would compromise this by switching WQNY-FM to a simulcast of WRFM, adopting the call-letters WRFQ, which stand for WRFM for Queens. In the process, WRFQ would adopt WRFM's easy-listening format.

When WRFM switched to an adult contemporary format and change its call-letters to WNSR, WRFQ would change its own call-letters to WNSQ to reflect its WRFM's call-letter change. In 1990, WNSR and WNSQ would adopt a hot AC format and in April 1992, after WNSR changed its call-letters to WMXV (later WDBZ in 1996), WNSQ would adopt the WNSR call-letters. On November 13, 1996, both stations would flip again to a Modern AC format.

Oldies format
On August 5, 1997, due to declining ratings, WDBZ would reacquire the WNSR call-letters, and subsequently readopted them. The original plan was for WNSR to drop the "Buzz" format in favor of an oldies-based AC format, playing songs from 1964 to current hits. The station was to have launched on August 18, 1997, with television commercials set to air. However, Bonneville instead decided to sell WNSR to Chancellor Media. The previous WNSR would be retained by Bonneville, flip to an oldies format and would change its call-letters WULD-FM. This is would mark the first time the station would operate as a standalone station, instead of a simulcast since 1980.

The station, branded "Oldies 104" was made to serve as a local competitor to oldies radio giant WCBS-FM. The format debuted on August 18, 1997, the same day as the failed-launch of WNSR's oldies-based AC format. Although initial ratings were strong, WULD-FM would fail to compete with the local giant.

Quick 104
In response to the abysmal ratings, WULD-FM would drop its oldies format on October 5, 2000. On the same day, WULD-FM would flip to a rhythmic adult contemporary format branded as "Quick 104". Quick 104 would have most of its music mostly leaning towards hip-hop. The first song to play on "Quick 104" was "Untouchable" by Scarface. When it launched, WULD-FM became a strong competitor to WKTU, and to a lesser extent WQHT or WWPR-FM. WULD-FM would change its call-letters to WQUI on July 4, 2001, in order to reflect its new branding. This was also Bonneville's first African-American oriented station.

On January 19, 2011, Bonneville International would sell its New York City radio assets including WQUI to Hubbard Broadcasting, as part of larger deal in which Bonneville would sell its radio assets from New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Washington D.C. to Hubbard in an attempt to layoff debt. The deal closed May 2, 2011.

The arrival of Tony
On January 1, 2013, WQUI would discontinue its rhythmic adult contemporary format with the last song playing on "Quick 104" being "The Next Episode" by Dr. Dre. According to Hubbard's themselves, the dropping of Quick 104's format was to make the station more original as WKTU was a strong local leader, and WQUI needed an original format to succeed. As was stated, WQUI would switch an adult hits format, marking the return of the format since WCBS-FM dropped the format in 2007 to return to its legacy classic hits format. The station would adopt the "toNY" branding from WCBS-HD2 after the station dropped the format and call-letters on December 21, 2012. The first song to play on "104.1 toNY" was "Livin’ on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi.

The station's new format opened with a message from the character Tony (who served as the spokesperson of the station) stating that he was hired onto the station after he was told by his boss that he was gonna be kicked out of WCBS-HD2, because according to him CBS Radio (owner of WCBS-FM) hates him. The message ends with Tony yelling "Jack won't know what hit him" (referencing the disastrous launch of Jack FM in the New York market).

Tony is similar to Jack, although Tony tends to get a lot more raunchy with his jokes. When the station launched, Tony was originally voiced by famed comedian and voice actor Gilbert Gottfried, but after his death on April 12, 2022, Tony's voice was taken over by local voice actor Wyatt Nicholson.