For the airport in RMAF Kuantan, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, assigned ICAO code WMKD, see Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport. For the similarly branded "Country 104.3" radio station in nearby Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, see CJQM-FM.
-(CJQM-FM switched to rock music as The Fox on January 9, 2025)
Although a construction permit for 105.5 WADW was granted in 1993, the station did not sign on until 2001. WADW was originally known as "Memories 105.5" and aired a mix of oldies from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, marking the first time an oldies station had been on the air in the Sault Ste. Marie area. The station was soon sold to Starboard Media and was taken silent while Starboard prepared to broadcast its Relevant RadioCatholicreligious format on 105.5. WADW broadcast intermittently through the next three years, alternating between periods of silence and automated new age/smooth jazz music. In the summer of 2005, Starboard sold the station to current owners Northern Star Broadcasting, who changed the call-sign to WMKD in November of that year, and briefly turned it into a simulcast of Traverse City modern rock station WJZJ. The station debuted its current country music format a few months later, maintaining a similar playlist & branding as WMKC in St. Ignace/Indian River. Northern Star Broadcasting sold the station to Sovereign Communications in 2010.
The current Country 105 lineup includes Jeff McNeice in the Morning from 6:00 to 10:00 am, Country with Carsen between 10:00 and 3:00 and Lydia McNeice from 3:00 to 7:00 weekdays, and The Lia Show till midnight.
Weekend shows include Sunday Morning Classic Country with Jeff McNeice from 7:00 am till Noon and the Crook & Chase Countdown Sunday afternoon.
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