WQQK

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WQQK
Broadcast area Nashville, Tennessee
Frequency 92.1 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding92Q
Programming
Format Urban adult contemporary
Affiliations Compass Media Networks
Ownership
Owner
WGFX, WKDF, WSM-FM, WWTN
History
First air date
October 16, 1970;54 years ago (October 16, 1970) [1]
Former call signs
WHVT (1970–197?)
WBYQ (197?–1981)
WMAK-FM (1981–1984)
Call sign meaning
The "Q" from WQQK is used in 92Q branding
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 52521
Class A
ERP 3,500 watts
HAAT 133 meters (436 ft)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website 92qnashville.com

WQQK (92.1 FM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station broadcasting in the Nashville, Tennessee. Its transmitter site is in Goodlettsville, Tennessee (its city of license), and its studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district.

Contents

WQQK broadcasts in HD. [3]

History

On October 16, 1970, the station signed on as WHVT. Hendersonville Broadcasting Corporation was the licensee, according to FCC records. The studios were at 361 Main Street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, with transmitter facilities on Campbell Road in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The transmitter facilities remain in the same location today.

Through much of the 1970s, the station held call letters WBYQ. Branded as "92Q", the station pioneered the "Top 40/CHR" format on the FM dial in the Nashville market.

On July 1, 1981, WBYQ changed its call letters to WMAK-FM. On May 17, 1982, FCC records show the station's license was transferred from Hendersonville Broadcasting Corporation to Phoenix of Hendersonville, Inc. (Samuel H. Howard). In late fall of 1982, WMAK-FM adopted an urban contemporary format.

On January 31, 1984, the station's call letters were changed to WQQK, and the well-known "92Q" branding was relaunched while retraining the urban contemporary format. The late-night program The Quiet Storm began in 1984. Around this time, Phoenix Broadcasting moved WQQK's studios to then-sister station WVOL's facilities, located just north of Downtown Nashville.

On August 8, 1997, Phoenix of Hendersonville, Inc, and WQQK were transferred from Samuel H. Howard to Dickey Brothers Broadcasting Corporation LLC, per FCC records. From this point to present, WQQK has been controlled by the Dickey family, who are also prominent figures in the Cumulus Media organization. In 2008, WQQK's city of license was changed from Hendersonville to Goodlettsville as part of a larger project that saw four of Cumulus' five Nashville stations change their cities of license.

On September 16, 2011, two of WQQK's sister stations, WRQQ and WNFN, were placed into an independent trust (Volt Radio, LLC) while Cumulus sought a buyer. The move was forced by FCC ownership limits following Cumulus' acquisition of Citadel Broadcasting, which resulted locally in WKDF and WGFX joining the Cumulus cluster. The FCC, as of 2011, allows a single company to own a maximum of five FM stations and two AM stations in any given market. To meet these guidelines in Nashville, Cumulus was forced to divest two of its seven FM stations, and the company chose WRQQ and WNFN, traditionally its two lowest-performing stations.

On November 14, 2011, Cumulus announced it was removing WRQQ from the Volt Radio trust, replacing it with WQQK. [4] Following Cumulus' sale of WRQQ, Cumulus removed and retrained WQQK from the trust on April 30, 2013.

Today, WQQK carries "The Kenny Smoov Morning Show" (who replaced Tom Joyner) in mornings), and D. L. Hughley (who replaced Michael Baisden) in afternoons. The station primarily plays R&B from the 1980s to now, as well as classic hip-hop. While facing direct competition from WUBT, WQQK consistently garners one of the highest Arbitron ratings in the market despite broadcasting with only 3,500 watts of power.

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References

  1. ↑ Call Sign was WHVT "1974 Broadcasting Yearbook, page B-195" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WQQK". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "Stations". HD Radio.
  4. ↑ "Cumulus Takes Two Out Of Trusts, Puts One In". All Access.

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