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Q101.9 / WQXQ-FM Central City-Owensboro-Evansville
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JayHuston
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Doesn't sound like a format change. It sounds like they are running a raw feed of Jones Radio Networks Hot AC format with hardly any ID's running... probably due to a hard drive crash. This is the same programming they've been running since '94 or '95. Kind of sad really, that a stick covering Bowling Green to Evansville continues to run satellite automation - and Jones for that matter! Who operates this station and why is it so pathetic is the real question here?
> Doesn't sound like a format change. It sounds like they are
> running a raw feed of Jones Radio Networks Hot AC format
> with hardly any ID's running... probably due to a hard drive
> crash. This is the same programming they've been running
> since '94 or '95. Kind of sad really, that a stick covering
> Bowling Green to Evansville continues to run satellite
> automation - and Jones for that matter! Who operates this
> station and why is it so pathetic is the real question here?
>
From what I understand WQXQ is owned by some rich ass doctor that has no idea how to run a radio station and doesn't really care so he just has some satellite crap do it all and be done with it. I think it could be a great station if the dude that owns it would sell it to some company or whatever that wants to make it into one powerhouse of a radio station. Their coverage is from Bowling Green to Louisville to Evansville. They have one huge coverage area.
There use to be a guy at Q102 I don't know if he's still there or not that that worked at STO for a long time then left. I can't remember his name at STO to save my life but I do remember its been years tho.
Oh well - Money Making potential and some dumbass has no idea what to do with it.
> running a raw feed of Jones Radio Networks Hot AC format
> with hardly any ID's running... probably due to a hard drive
> crash. This is the same programming they've been running
> since '94 or '95. Kind of sad really, that a stick covering
> Bowling Green to Evansville continues to run satellite
> automation - and Jones for that matter! Who operates this
> station and why is it so pathetic is the real question here?
>
From what I understand WQXQ is owned by some rich ass doctor that has no idea how to run a radio station and doesn't really care so he just has some satellite crap do it all and be done with it. I think it could be a great station if the dude that owns it would sell it to some company or whatever that wants to make it into one powerhouse of a radio station. Their coverage is from Bowling Green to Louisville to Evansville. They have one huge coverage area.
There use to be a guy at Q102 I don't know if he's still there or not that that worked at STO for a long time then left. I can't remember his name at STO to save my life but I do remember its been years tho.
Oh well - Money Making potential and some dumbass has no idea what to do with it.
Their coverage is from Bowling Green to Louisville
to Evansville. They have one huge coverage area.
But, I bet you couln'd find ten people in Louisville and Bowling
Green combined that have even heard of WQXQ. Ten seems about
right for Evansville. <P ID="signature">______________
but wait...there's more!</P>
to Evansville. They have one huge coverage area.
But, I bet you couln'd find ten people in Louisville and Bowling
Green combined that have even heard of WQXQ. Ten seems about
right for Evansville. <P ID="signature">______________
but wait...there's more!</P>
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paul42141
Guest
Brian Jackson went to QXQ briefly after he was let
go from 96STO.
After Brian departed QXQ for Satellite America,
Ethan Adler, also a 96STO alum, took his place
at WQXQ for perhaps a year. Probably less.
Yes, it's a shame that a signal like QXQ's is
being wasted the way it is.
go from 96STO.
After Brian departed QXQ for Satellite America,
Ethan Adler, also a 96STO alum, took his place
at WQXQ for perhaps a year. Probably less.
Yes, it's a shame that a signal like QXQ's is
being wasted the way it is.
Another station not streaming....sigh. Where is the logo for this one? Where's the website? Someone please give me an aircheck, that'd be nice.
http://www.wqxq1019.com/ ta-da! It ain't much more than a cyber business card but it has a logo. I don't know of any airchecks that exist. I did two airshifts there in 2000 and didn't roll tape because there wasn't a skimmer machine in the control room. The only audio evidence were a couple of remotes I recorded for the client's agency and it's me talking about cell phones. Outside of the local morning people over the years there isn't much to aircheck If you heard one sattelite jock aimlessly reading showprep, you've heard them all.
The above post is almost correct regarding why the signal just sits there. It's is owned by the Anderson family. They own lots of Muhlenberg County including the paper, a bank, soft drink distributorship, lots of property and 1050 WNES and 101.9. When the patriarch of the Anderson clan died the empire continued operating, but radio was sidelined. Ironically in the last ten years, the family purchased the Lloyd Spivey stations (105.5 Greenville, 106.3 Beaver Dam and 1600 Hartford) but does little with any of them; 1600 has been dark for years. They won't sell them either because they know what they are worth, especially 101.9 and big offers have been made and the Anderson's have past on them.
At one time WNES and 101.9 (then WKYA) were profitable. The AM was sold from sign on to sign off but one day the family pulled the plug and that was it. WNES just sits there. WKYA was a different story. The big signal of 101.9 happened at the same time as WSTO's upgrade but the Steele's pursued the potential of 96.1 while the Anderson's focused on their corner of the universe.
Everyone, including myself, have tried to talk them into making something of 101.9 but the answer is "not interested". As long as makes just enough money to pay the electric bills they are happy. In the words of Floyd Hubbard, the engineer who put WVJS on the air, "It's their little red wagon and if they want to haul s**t, that their business."
At one time WNES and 101.9 (then WKYA) were profitable. The AM was sold from sign on to sign off but one day the family pulled the plug and that was it. WNES just sits there. WKYA was a different story. The big signal of 101.9 happened at the same time as WSTO's upgrade but the Steele's pursued the potential of 96.1 while the Anderson's focused on their corner of the universe.
Everyone, including myself, have tried to talk them into making something of 101.9 but the answer is "not interested". As long as makes just enough money to pay the electric bills they are happy. In the words of Floyd Hubbard, the engineer who put WVJS on the air, "It's their little red wagon and if they want to haul s**t, that their business."
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