Nearly two years after Quinnipiac University’s Full Service Standards 1220 WQUN Hamden/New Haven CT ceased operations at the end of May 2019, the station has relaunched.

Now owned by Clark Smidt’s Clark Media under WATX call letters, the station resumed programming last weekend as Oldies “Connecticut Gold“. Smidt acquired the license last October in exchange for up to $3000 in legal fees connected to the license transfer after the University sold the station’s transmitter site to Vertical Bridge.

Smidt told the New Haven Register, “It was a little more complicated than I had expected. I only made one trip to the Connecticut before getting the station back on the air and the rest was done remotely. But I’m fortunate to have a lot of old friends in radio who live in Connecticut, many of whom are engineers.”

WATX is running jockless with imaging voiced by former Boston and New York personality Dick Summer. The station is operating under STA using a temporary whip antenna with 250 watts day and 76 watts night while attempting to find a new permanent site.