WTHQ-FM

WTHQ-FM (104.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Buffalo, New York and is owned by iHeartMedia. It broadcasts an adult hits format branded as "104.5 Jack FM" with its HD2 sub-channel carrying a simulcast of sister station, WTHQ-AM. WTHQ-FM's studios and offices are located on Hazelwood Drive in Buffalo, it's transmitter is located in West Seneca, New York.

The station has no on-air staff expect for Kevin Rankin and his "Jacktivities" (events and whatever announcements deemed worthy by "Jack"). As with most Jack FM stations, Jack's voice is provided by Howard Cogan who supplied prerecorded quips and remarks between songs.

As WKBW-FM
WTHQ-FM launched on January 18th 1959, as WKBW-FM being a sister station to WKBW-AM (now WWKB). WKBW-AM and WKBW-FM both carried a top 40 format, aired the ABC Radio Network, and owned by local christian, Clinton Churchill. Both radio stations also were sister stations to companion TV stations, WKBW-TV. Only 2 years after signing on, Churchill would sell WKBW-FM, alongside WKBW-AM, and WKBW-TV to Capital Cities Broadcasting, earning a handsome return on his original investment into WKBW-AM in 1926.

In 1969, WKBW-FM would completely split off its simulcast with WKBW-AM, and would begin broadcasting an automated easy-listening/beautiful music format under the branding "Soft Hits 104 1/2". The format was supposed to CBS Radio's "The Young Sound" format used their FM stations.