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WZZQ IS BACK!

T

tzbarber

Looking for the link, but understand the historic call letters have returned to the Jackson airwaves as ICBC has flipped WOAD-FM to classic rock and proclaimed that "WZZQ is back". Legendary programmer Johnny Summers is programming the station, with Gary Phillips returning to the Jackson airwaves in the mornings. A multi-million dollar promotional campaign will begin immediately,with thousands of "ZZQ Mother Earth" t-shirts being dropped from a large blimp coasting over the area, and busloads of fans will travel to the Hiney Wine distillery in Gluckstadt to attend an exclusive free concert by Savoy Brown and Uriah Heep.


Ya'll have a good first day of April.
 
TZ, you are one heck-of-a salesman! You had me biting all the way down to the phrase "multi-million dollar" before I realized there was a time-space continuum catch.
 
Had me hoping just for a second, but then looked up at the posting date.

Oh well, we can dream. I've had a dream, probably more than once that ZZQ was back, but woke up.

If you haven't heard it check out former ZZQ Jock Bill Fitzhugh’s “Hand Mixed Vinyl” on XM’s Deep tracks? Tue 9a and Sat 9:30p



A query in the FCC website state the WZZQ call letters are not available but do not show any stations using the WZZQ call letters.


The WZZQ call letters have had quite a history up in Indiana, they may not want them any more:

Station History
WZZQ(AM) was known as WBOW(AM) previously. In 1998, the FCC revoked the stations license because station president Michael Rice was convicted of twelve felonies involving sexual assult of children and subsequently jailed. WZZQ(AM) becomes WBUZ(AM) in June, 2000. The FCC approves that call letter change on 10 July 2000. The AM call letter change was a sign of things to come, as on August 15, 2000, the FM flipped from Rock to Alternative as "107-5 The Edge". A rumor soon started within the radio business as to their use of "The Edge" as a moniker, as it's servicemarked by Jacobs Media. WZZQ changed monikers to "Z-107.5". MD/night guy Aaron Green is dismissed after a stunt/contest goes awry. According to published reports in The Terre Haute Tribune-Star, listeners won prizes for stopping at green lights, calling the station on their cell phone, and reporting other motorists' reactions. After calls from angry listeners, as well as an irate local police department, GM Dave Kirsch decided to dismiss Green on March 28, 2001. The FCC shut down the station, as well as all of the other Contemporary Media stations, on Thursday 4 October 2001.
 
Yeah hahah actually Johnny Sommers got a real job and now works for the US Postal Service in Tampa...and that's a true story!
 
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