 The station had been founded by Stan Jasinski, a local media mogul known most famously for his polka broadcasts; polka has been a fixture of the station's format since its inception.When Jasinski shifted his focus to television and started up WUTV in 1970, he sold the radio station to Schriver, who owned the station for the rest of his life and installed what was then the first country music station in Western New York.When more modern country stations such as WYRK and WNUC started reaching the airwaves in the early 1990s, Schriver, like numerous other AM country stations, maintained a classic country format.