WCVQ
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WCVQ is a Fort Campbell
-licensed radio station
broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format in the Clarksville-Hopkinsville broadcast area. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC. and is also broadcast on HD radio
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In 1968 the owners of WABD-AM (Ft. Campbell, KY) put a sister FM station on the air as WABD-FM. In 1986, under new ownership by Southern Broadcasting, the FM was upgraded to 100,000 watts and took on the call letters WCVQ FM “Q-108” on December 3, 1986 and began a gold-based adult contemporary format while the WABD AM 1370 changed to an urban format. Q108 has since been bought up by Saga Communications
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WCVQ-FM is in both the Clarksville-Hopkinsville, Ky Radio Markets as well as the Nashville Market. Gretchen Cordy, A Clarksville Native who Starred in Survivor: Borneo
hosts the stations morning show along with Ryan Ploeckelman. The show is called "Ryan and Gretchen" and airs from 6-9AM. Scott Chase is the Afternoon Drive Personality from 2- 6PM. Chase is formerly known as the Program Director of the Former WSSR
"Star 95.7" in Tampa, Florida
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The Station Plays Kid Kelleys Backtrax USA
on Sunday Nights from 8PM-Midnight. Playing both the 80's and 90's Versions and has been doing so since the Mid-1990'S. (Since 2003 for the 90's Version.)
, Hopkinsville
Metropolitan Area. Covering the area of Western Kentucky and Northern Middle Tennessee. Q108 also secondarily covers the Nashville
Metropolitan Area as well as the Paducah
area. Its signal can be heard as far away as Southern Illinois
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Fort Campbell
Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astraddle the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee...
-licensed radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format in the Clarksville-Hopkinsville broadcast area. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC. and is also broadcast on HD radio
HD Radio
HD Radio, which originally stood for "Hybrid Digital", is the trademark for iBiquity's in-band on-channel digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data via a digital signal in conjunction with their analog signals...
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History
The station was assigned the call letters WABD-FM on 1979-07-18. On 1986-12-03, the station changed its call sign to the current WCVQ. WCVQ studios and offices are co-located with it sister stations WVVR 100.3, WZZP-FM 97.5, WEGI-FM 94.3, WJQI-AM 1370, AND WKFN AM 540 in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee; all of which are make up a cluster known as the 5 Star Radio Group, a unit of Saga CommunicationsSaga Communications
Saga Communications is a broadcasting company that owns and operates stations in 26 markets in the United States. The company, which is based in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, primarily operates radio stations , but it also operates 9 television stations Saga Communications is a broadcasting...
, Inc.
In 1968 the owners of WABD-AM (Ft. Campbell, KY) put a sister FM station on the air as WABD-FM. In 1986, under new ownership by Southern Broadcasting, the FM was upgraded to 100,000 watts and took on the call letters WCVQ FM “Q-108” on December 3, 1986 and began a gold-based adult contemporary format while the WABD AM 1370 changed to an urban format. Q108 has since been bought up by Saga Communications
Saga Communications
Saga Communications is a broadcasting company that owns and operates stations in 26 markets in the United States. The company, which is based in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, primarily operates radio stations , but it also operates 9 television stations Saga Communications is a broadcasting...
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WCVQ-FM is in both the Clarksville-Hopkinsville, Ky Radio Markets as well as the Nashville Market. Gretchen Cordy, A Clarksville Native who Starred in Survivor: Borneo
Survivor: Borneo
Survivor: Borneo is the first season of the United States reality show Survivor. It was originally broadcast under the name Survivor but its official title was changed to Survivor: Pulau Tiga to distinguish it from subsequent installments of the series, and then changed again to Survivor: Borneo to...
hosts the stations morning show along with Ryan Ploeckelman. The show is called "Ryan and Gretchen" and airs from 6-9AM. Scott Chase is the Afternoon Drive Personality from 2- 6PM. Chase is formerly known as the Program Director of the Former WSSR
WBTP
WBTP is a Urban Contemporary radio station that serves the Tampa Bay area that plays hip-hop, R&B, and soul music that aims towards the African American community. Its target audience is African Americans between the ages of 18-34, but its main competitors are WLLD which has a very similar target...
"Star 95.7" in Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
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The Station Plays Kid Kelleys Backtrax USA
Backtrax USA
Backtrax USA is a two hour radio program hosted by former WHTZ DJ Kid Kelly that premiered in 1993.The show originally highlighted hit music from the 1980s. Since 2003, however, Backtrax USA has offered a 1990s version of the show featuring hit music from this decade alongside that of the '80s...
on Sunday Nights from 8PM-Midnight. Playing both the 80's and 90's Versions and has been doing so since the Mid-1990'S. (Since 2003 for the 90's Version.)
Signal Coverage
Q108's Primary Coverage Area is the ClarksvilleClarksville, Tennessee
Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 132,929 in 2010 United States Census...
, Hopkinsville
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Hopkinsville is a city in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 31,577 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Christian County.- History :...
Metropolitan Area. Covering the area of Western Kentucky and Northern Middle Tennessee. Q108 also secondarily covers the Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
Metropolitan Area as well as the Paducah
Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah is the largest city in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase Region and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Ohio River, halfway between the metropolitan areas of St. Louis, Missouri, to the west and Nashville,...
area. Its signal can be heard as far away as Southern Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
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