Mix 97.1 and Cougar 93.7

[CleveFan]

So there was another station other that WQIO that went by "Super Q?"

 

[MichaelP]

So there was another station other that WQIO that went by "Super Q?"

Yes, in Whitehall Michigan in 1977. See my previous posts to see it's fate.

 

[dannykewl]

It s stated that the coverage is comparable between 104.7 WKKY and the new Cougar 93.7. I visit Garfield Hts. at least once a week, and I can always get 104.7 in fairly well, but never a trace of 93.7 Cougar. Even when I get on I-480 at Transportation Blvd, still no Cougar. I do get in varying degrees, depending how strong tropo is that day, Q from Mt. Vernon, but never Cougar even if Q is muted. Q is always there, even if weak.

 

[HHH]

It s stated that the coverage is comparable between 104.7 WKKY and the new Cougar 93.7. I visit Garfield Hts. at least once a week, and I can always get 104.7 in fairly well, but never a trace of 93.7 Cougar. Even when I get on I-480 at Transportation Blvd, still no Cougar. I do get in varying degrees, depending how strong tropo is that day, Q from Mt. Vernon, but never Cougar even if Q is muted. Q is always there, even if weak.

Although they run the same power, WKKY is at 328 feet on a dedicated FM tower and WQGR is at 259 feet on a cell phone tower.

 

[CleveFan]

WREO is now identified on-air as Mix 97.1. They've gotten of the longtime Star name. Same voiceover and liners, but with new jingles along with the new name.

 

[ChrisInMI]

That can't be 93.7's final format. Hopefully, they'll tweak the playlist more in the coming days.

As for their signal, they're more of a Lake County-targeted station than Ashtabula.

Did they hire a consultant who said that this kind of music is popular in Lake County? It's a very narrow format, unless they are still "stunting". Not just the same songs but the same style. All uptempo, but no metal and no ballads.

Ironically the station from Mt. Vernon that is "doing battle" over the air in Parma is called "Super Q". I recall another station that called itself "Super Q" in the late 70's in Western Michigan (Muskegon area). I was on vacation at a "dude ranch" there and this station had a playlist that seemed like only 8 songs ("Summer" by War was one of the songs - they used it in their "Keep it on Super Q" promos). I made friends with one of the locals who ended up moving down here (he married a girl from Painesville that he met at the ranch). He told me someone blew up the station, literally!

My advise to "Cougar 93.7": More variety, please!

That station is now a country station as B93 WBCT/Grand Rapids, MI which does show up from time to time even here in Vermilion if I leave it on 93.7 long enough. I can figure it's them when I start hearing country on that frequency unless it's E-skip.
As for Cougar's format, I hope they're still experimenting or stunting and haven't launched their official format yet. This is Cleveland's 3rd new station within the past year or so btw.

That's not the same station. It was in Whitehall, MI, not Grand Rapids. I don't recall the frequency. A search of the FCC database shows 2 class A FM's and one LP/repeater station. One was owned by a University, the other went on the air initially in 1991. The "Super Q" that got blown up was on the air in 1977.

That would be WLRQ, Whitehall, MI, at 95.3. Today it's WGVS-FM, an NPR and jazz station owned by Grand Valley State University. They had a number of different formats over the years. When I went to Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in the late '90s, I remember it as WKBZ-FM, an Urban or Rhythmic CHR station.

In their own time as a Top 40 station in the '70s, WDRQ Detroit (now Doug-FM) also used jingles where they called themselves "The Super Q." I think it was one of Buzz Bennett's "Q" format stations along with KCBQ, KSLQ, WKTQ, etc.

The "Ohio's Super Station" and "Super Q" slogan on WQIO hearkens back to its CHR days in the '80s (check out airchecks on YouTube). They had been known as Eagle 93.7.