WCVQ

WCVQ (107.9 FM, "Q108") is a Fort Campbell, Kentucky-licensed radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format in the Clarksville-Hopkinsville broadcast area. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications under licensee Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC, and operates as part of its Five Star Media Group.[2] and is also broadcasting on HD radio.[3]

WCVQ
Broadcast areaClarksville, Tennessee
Frequency107.9 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingQ108
Programming
FormatHot adult contemporary
SubchannelsHD2: Sunny 99.1 (Contemporary Christian)
HD3: 100.7 The Outlaw (Classic country)
AffiliationsPremiere Networks
Westwood One
Ownership
Owner
  • Saga Communications
  • (Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC)
WKFN, WNZE, WQEZ, WRND, WVVR, WZZP
History
First air date
1968 (as WABD-FM)
Former call signs
WABD-FM (1968–1986)[1]
Technical information
Facility ID61253
ClassC1
ERP100,000 watts
HAAT275 meters (902 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
36°32′23″N 87°39′45″W
Translator(s)HD2: 99.1 W256CI (Clarksville)
HD3: 100.7 W264CK (Clarksville)
Links
WebcastListen Live
Listen Live (HD3)
Websiteq108.com
mysunny991.com (HD2)
outlaw1007.com (HD3)

WCVQ studios and offices are co-located with its sister stations in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee; all of which make up a cluster known as the 5 Star Radio Group, a unit of Saga Communications, Inc. The station's transmitter is located near the junction of US 79/SR 76 and SR 46 in eastern Stewart County just north of Indian Mound.

History

The station first signed on the air in 1968 as WABD-FM, which at the time was a sister station to the AM station with the same call letters. WABD, now WQEZ, was a Top 40-formatted station. In the late 1970s WABD-FM broadcast an album rock format, while WABD-AM switched to oldies.

On December 13, 1986, the station was sold to Southern Broadcasting, and changed their call letters to the current WCVQ. The station has used the Q-108 branding ever since. Also in December 1986, WCVQ upgraded its signal to a 100,000 watt signal. Its current owner, Saga Communications, purchased the station at some point in the early 2000s. The station's signal has been transmitting from their present 950 feet (290 m) tower ever since.

In 2014, through its HD radio signal, the station launched its HD2 subchannel to serve as a Contemporary Christian station, branded as "Sunny 99.1," which is simulcast over analog low-powered FM translator W256CI, which broadcasts at 99.1 megahertz. The next year, an HD3 subchannel was launched to bring the Classic Country format to the area, which is simulcast over W264CK, at 100.7 megahertz.

Programming

Gretchen Cordy, a Clarksville native who starred in Survivor: Borneo, hosts the station's morning show along with Ryan Ploeckelman. The show is called Ryan and Gretchen. Scott Chase is the afternoon drive personality. Chase was formerly the program director of the former WSSR "Star 95.7" in Tampa, Florida. Until 2014, the station played Kid Kelly's Backtrax USA on Sunday nights from 8 p.m. to Midnight. The station aired both the 1980s and 90s versions until WRND-FM took over both versions of the show when they changed formats in December 2013.

HD radio

The station's HD radio signal is multiplexed in this manner.

Freqnency
(MHz-subchannel)		 Callsign Programming [3]
107.9 FM
107.9-1 HD		 WCVQ Simulcast of the traditional FM signal
"Q108" / Hot Adult Contemporary
107.9-2 HD WCVQ-HD2 W256CI / "Sunny 99.1"
Contemporary Christian
107.9-3 HD WCVQ-HD3 W264CK / "100.7 The Outlaw"
Classic Country

Translators
Broadcast translator for WCVQ-HD2
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseERP (W)HAATClassFCC info
W256CI 99.1 FMClarksville, Tennessee25090 m (295 ft)DFMQ
Broadcast translator for WCVQ-HD3
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseERP (W)HAATClassFCC info
W264CK 100.7 FMClarksville, Tennessee25098 m (322 ft)DFMQ

Signal coverage

WCVQ's primary coverage area is the Clarksville/Hopkinsville metropolitan area, covering the Pennyrile region of Western Kentucky and northwestern Middle Tennessee. WCVQ also secondarily covers the Nashville Metropolitan Area as it is considered to be in both the Clarksville and Nashville radio markets. The station's signal also covers parts of the Jackson Purchase region of far western Kentucky, including Paducah, and it can also received as far as extreme southern Illinois.

WCVQ's signal also had presence in the Bowling Green area. This ended in early 2017, when that area's Fox Sports Radio affiliated station turned Oldies station WBGN launched a low-powered translator, W300DA, to rebroadcast that station's AM signal over 107.9 MHz. WCVQ could still be heard in portions of Logan and Butler counties in southern Kentucky that can not receive the FM signal of W300DA, but the signals of both stations are subject to interference with one another.

References
  1. "WCVQ Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. "WCVQ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. "HD Radio Station Guide". HD Radio. iBiquity.
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