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Q Country Debuts In Ashland City
- Thread starter Y2kTheNewOldies
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Wonder what (if anything) will be different THIS time?
It WILL take a major upgrade for them to be heard in both downtown Clarksville AND Nashville. I live here in south Cheatham, and can't get 103.9. An upgrade of the nature that they are projecting should make them listenable here, as well.
Being out of the area, I'm guessing "Q Country" is attempting to be more of a Clarksville station versus a Cheatham County station. I'm not sure, given the many listening options, anything other than a local focused format can garner enough listeners to actually deliver results to advertisers. It would seem the new owners are trying to find that programming that resonates with the area.
It seems this station has a long history of struggling to get by, even from the days when it was WAJN back in the 1980s. Corky took lots of heat for a poorly run station but at least he tried to be local (up for debate among some) but I suspect income was an issue that left him being less than what he wanted for the station.
I still have that vivid memory of visiting the station during Corky's reign. I walk in to find no warm bodies. I use the restroom and sit out front. A CD plays in the CD deck. A few minutes before 11 am, Corky rushes in, acknowledges me in a mad dash to the studio to fire off commercials and join ABC News, then more spots and another CD to play. It seems he was seeing clients between newscasts. You don't do that unless you are barely getting by.
It seems this station has a long history of struggling to get by, even from the days when it was WAJN back in the 1980s. Corky took lots of heat for a poorly run station but at least he tried to be local (up for debate among some) but I suspect income was an issue that left him being less than what he wanted for the station.
I still have that vivid memory of visiting the station during Corky's reign. I walk in to find no warm bodies. I use the restroom and sit out front. A CD plays in the CD deck. A few minutes before 11 am, Corky rushes in, acknowledges me in a mad dash to the studio to fire off commercials and join ABC News, then more spots and another CD to play. It seems he was seeing clients between newscasts. You don't do that unless you are barely getting by.
They are billing themselves as "Cheatham County's Hometown Station." Q-Country 103.9 and AM790, Ashland City, TN | WCHQ AM790 & FM103.9 | Cheatham County Country Radio – My Local Stations Just by looking at Radio-Locator, I see FIVE other country stations already within the Ashland City listening area. Makes me wonder if we need yet ANOTHER country station, but I wonder what else a station in this area could/would offer.
My guess is that Corky couldn't, or more likely wouldn't, pay what it takes to get and keep a good viable airstaff. Even running some sort of syndicated programming would have been better than what you describe here.
Even my parents, after they moved here to be near us (me and my late sister) after they retired, never listened to this station, that I was ever aware of. My dad channel-surfed and found other local programming more to his liking. And my mother still only listens to WSM, apparently because that was nearly all that my dad ever listened to.
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