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The New Super Q

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Eagle 937 is now Ohio's Super Station. According to Facebook, look like it launched March 1 because the page was created on the 28th. Posting it now because I just found it while scanning the dial today. Not sure why they switched the name when it has the same AC format as before.

http://wqioradio.com/
 
Seems like they went with voice tracking local talent for the daypart and kept the Tesh for nights and satellite on weekends. It's a little more local than all satellite and will allow them to send out talent for remotes but that's about it. SUPER!
 
Sounds like BAS is trying to play on the heritage of the station's frequency since it was known as Super Q 93.7 many years ago... sadly they leaned CHR back during those days and today's Super Q is just the same ol' Storq Automation piped in AC (I think that's what they are using) re branded and made to be more local...
 
It does sound more local than before, but definitely fed through Dial Global and not programmed here, and only a few local jocks. I think they should flip to a CHR format for sure though. They cover Mansfield well and there is no hometown CHR there and there's only one in Columbus. I'm sure in Mansfield, Mix 106.1 and Y105 get the listeners.
 
In their heyday, they were smokin'.... I would get video air-checks from kid who worked there.. Loved it...
 
Just noticed on their website that Curtis Newland is their morning jock and program director. He was with T-100 WCLT before, right? I'm assuming that Wild Walley took his place.
 
chad43358 said:
Just noticed on their website that Curtis Newland is their morning jock and program director. He was with T-100 WCLT before, right? I'm assuming that Wild Walley took his place.
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Yep, he's been with T-100 for several years. Also has been their primary football broadcaster for quite a while.
 
Sad that BAS is trying to tap into the heritage of the SUPER Q...

That was at one time a REALLY talented staff that included both Joel Riley and Stacy McKay, I think she was on the AM drive show there that was known as Lacy and Stacy.

Had their signal been better to the south they could have given WNCI and 92X a real run for their money. Man, I hate radio and what it has become the Super Q in the late 80's along with NCI and 92X were all doing very good to great radio. Now, radio sucks...BAD! :-\
 
OhHiThere said:
Had their signal been better to the south they could have given WNCI and 92X a real run for their money. Man, I hate radio and what it has become the Super Q in the late 80's along with NCI and 92X were all doing very good to great radio. Now, radio sucks...BAD! :-\
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They did ruffle WNCI's feathers during the late 80s and when WNCI had that whole "Not to hard not to lite" spell...
 
xmusicmatt said:
OhHiThere said:
Had their signal been better to the south they could have given WNCI and 92X a real run for their money. Man, I hate radio and what it has become the Super Q in the late 80's along with NCI and 92X were all doing very good to great radio. Now, radio sucks...BAD! :-\
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They did ruffle WNCI's feathers during the late 80s and when WNCI had that whole "Not to hard not to lite" spell...
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WNCI's "Not too hard, not too lite" was retired in '93 when Dave Robbins overreacted to ratings trends b/c of competition from Sunny & Hot 105/105.7 KISS-FM and "flipped" WNCI to AC. What a horrible time for WNCI. I'm not sure when they went back CHR, but I do know KISS-FM hammered them saying that no one in Columbus wanted to listening to "Sleepy elevator music". WNCI even ripped off KISS-FM's top of the hour imaging sometime in '94. Horrible.
 
In 1990 92X was a rock40 format then started almost going back to top40 before becoming oldies at the end of the year. The SuperQ went from live local top40 back to satelitte AC at the end of 1990. 105.7 made it's debut as Power 105.7 the Power Pig in 1990 while WNCI lept its Not too hard not to light Slogan. Of couse in 1991 105.7 became Hot 105, 1993 added 107.1 as a simulcast as Hot 105/ Hot 107, then at the end of the year became Kissfm. Then in 1994 the simulcast stopped with 105.7 becoming Arrow while 107.1 kept Kiss which got hampered on the north end by 106.9 in Marion. WNCI went haywire with its format in 1993 when Sunny 95 ran promos on tv as a variety station with no top40 teen rap music using WNCI's frequency as the promotion. That's what made Hot 105 get the simulcast and later a new identity. Of cousre At the end of 93 WNCI trying to be a Sunny 95 wannabe caused their ratings to sink. So then NCI somewhat reverted back to top40 but got stuck in the 80's on Friday's and 70's on Saturdays even thought they clamed to be a hit music station. I know that sounds like a little too much but I will admit in 1987 through 1989 92X, WQIO and WNCI made radio in Columbus wothwhile to listen too.
 
the marv said:
In 1990 92X was a rock40 format then started almost going back to top40 before becoming oldies at the end of the year. The SuperQ went from live local top40 back to satelitte AC at the end of 1990. 105.7 made it's debut as Power 105.7 the Power Pig in 1990 while WNCI lept its Not too hard not to light Slogan. Of couse in 1991 105.7 became Hot 105, 1993 added 107.1 as a simulcast as Hot 105/ Hot 107, then at the end of the year became Kissfm. Then in 1994 the simulcast stopped with 105.7 becoming Arrow while 107.1 kept Kiss which got hampered on the north end by 106.9 in Marion. WNCI went haywire with its format in 1993 when Sunny 95 ran promos on tv as a variety station with no top40 teen rap music using WNCI's frequency as the promotion. That's what made Hot 105 get the simulcast and later a new identity. Of cousre At the end of 93 WNCI trying to be a Sunny 95 wannabe caused their ratings to sink. So then NCI somewhat reverted back to top40 but got stuck in the 80's on Friday's and 70's on Saturdays even thought they clamed to be a hit music station. I know that sounds like a little too much but I will admit in 1987 through 1989 92X, WQIO and WNCI made radio in Columbus wothwhile to listen too.
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WNCI's "Friday Night 80s" fit them in the 90s b/c 80s music was still popular back then and heard on quite a few CHRs, most notably Z-93 in Dayton. They played 80s music in their regular rotation until 1999, when they weeded out the 80s for the final time and never went back. I can still hear the imaging from WNCI, circa 1993 as an AC, "...all that Top 40 teen rap music, we've dropped it! WNCI does mean real variety...", or something along those lines. I actually have the Hot 105 to KISS-FM flip on cassette. Last song on Hot 105 was "I Can See Clearly Now" by Jimmy Cliff, and first song on KISS was "Make It Happen" by Mariah Carey. Bo Michaels was on the air at the time of the flip on Dec. 15, 1993. Anyone know what ever happened to him? ???
 
I know that some top40 stations in the 90's would run the 80's version BacktraxxUSA on the weekends. But not all of them did a 10 hour show like WNCI did on Friday nights nor did they go all 80's on holiday weekends. Some markets saved that for AC stations. I do remember WQIO as 93Q playing the biggest hits from the 80's and today till they were bought by Clear Channel in 2001.
 
WQIO 93.7 went on the air in 1987. Their first song was 'We Built This City" by Starship. Alumni from this station includes Stacy McKay, Joel Riley, David Cook, Tony Coles, Jon Zellner, Rick Knight, Dave Macy and several others. There were plans at one point to relocate the transmitter site or a booster on top of the ridge which prevented a viable signal into Columbus. Had this happened radio history in Columbus would have been very different. The Super Q was an idea conceived by a guy named Mike Green who really loved radio.
 
Before that it was called WMVO FM as O94 playing satellite AC. With 93.7 in Miamisburg and a class C 93.7 in Ashland, Ky I don't know if they could get to much of an upgrade. I did noticed though they reached some of the Akron area where it's located.
 
Yep, BAS still owns the property (transferred over the years) a 5 acre site located just outside of Utica where they would have moved the signal.
 
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