KQV (fictional)

KQV (1410 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and covering the Greater Pittsburgh Region. Owned by, it serves as the Pittsburgh affiliate of TheBlaze Radio Network, Red Eye Radio, and The Dennis Prager Show, and the secondary Pittsburgh affiliate for Fox News Radio. KQV is one of the oldest radio stations in North America.

KQV's studios are located in Green Tree. It's transmitter site consists of five towers located in Ross Township; a different directional pattern is used days and nights.

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Because the owners did not turn in KQV's license for cancellation, the station was permitted to resume operations by Calvary or a new owner. However, station licenses are subject to automatic cancellation pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 if a station remains off-the-air continuously for one calendar year, although any resumption of broadcasting, even temporarily for a single day, resets the start of the one-year deadline period. Even though Dickey did not actively solicit buyers, press reports of the station's situation drew a number of interested potential buyers.

Longtime Pittsburgh broadcaster Chris Lash gave serious consideration to buying KQV before deciding instead to invest in a station near Buffalo, New York, in a similar situation, WSPQ. On January 30, 2018, in a transaction that included KQV-TV and KQV-FM, Calvary sold KQV's license and equipment for $55,000 to of, ; with KQV-TV placed in the IHeartMedia Television division and KQV-FM sold to partner company Farrimond Broadcasting (with iHeartMedia operating KQV-FM under a local marketing agreement). KQV signed back on under a conservative talk format on March 12, 2018.