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Did WQMS 1500 in Quitman Drop Dead?

I used to live near there. I wish they would bring something decent back to the area in terms of radio. It would really be appreciated for the people down there to have something local they could enjoy. I don't see it happening though, as there is not a lot of income and businesses down there to drive sales. Too bad.
 
I think WQMS couls succeed if someone had one or two hard working sales people. offered tons of local programming (on air tradio, tag sales, obits, high school sports on saturday morning sor afternoons, sunday gospel).. if someone who ran WQMS kept costs down, it wud be very possible to make it succeed.

People in this day and age spend way to omuch at the radio stations on stuff they don't really need....... if they werent so frivalous, some stations might actually be turning a decent profit.
 
Speaking as someone who lived in Quitman for a while: Only a few people in Quitman know that this station even exists and the ones that do know don't care. They're stuck on stations in Hattiesburg and Meridian. Even if you offered all the local programming in the world and all that no one would listen to it because there just isn't anything going on in Quitman, especially to justify a radio station built around it. About the most you could hope for is coverage of Quitman High School athletics but otherwise no one would care... not to mention the station is a flea powered station and even some within Clarke County can't pick it up.
 
The FM in Quitman did very well down there playing country music, with their moring news, swap shop, etc. Of course they pulled in advertising from Meridian (very little) and south of them (more), but they had a good, solid base in Quitman, and people DID participate and listen.
 
How much did they sell the FM to KLove for? I hope it was a pretty damned shiney penny!
 
Any word on what happened with this station? I know someone on here claimed they made an offer to buy it. Any word one way or another?
 
This station was sold today for $50,000. The seller made $35,000 profit on a dark station he did nothing with. Nothing but a piece of paper folks.

Crazy! I wish buyer the best luck. Just glad that I talked myself out of this sucker.
 
Wow! I used to live down there. That station barely worked then. I can't imagine paying that for it now that it doesn't even work. Best of luck. Any word on who the new owner is?
 
lash said:
This station was sold today for $50,000. The seller made $35,000 profit on a dark station he did nothing with. Nothing but a piece of paper folks.

Crazy! I wish buyer the best luck. Just glad that I talked myself out of this sucker.
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How did you come upon this information? Has the sale price been listed somewhere?
 
That's better than the $200,000 the station was originally purchased for when the AM/FM combo was split up.

Heard the FM sold for in the neighborhood of $750,000 -- but don't have confirmation on that.
 
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