 It did not do so for its last decade on air.In 2005, Terrance Grant, through holding company Hawk Communications, purchased the station.The station ran out of money and shut down on December 31, 2017, with Grant blaming a declining Western New York economy, WSPQ's small broadcast range (even its daytime signal only covered a mostly rural area spanning 20 miles from the transmitter), increasing expenses and a 2015 transformer failure for the station's lack of profitability.