WSTR-FM

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WSTR-FM

City of license	Smyrna, Georgia
Broadcast area	Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding	Star 94
Slogan	Always # 1 for Today's Hit Music
First air date	1967
Frequency	94.1 MHz
Format	Adult Top 40
ERP	100,000 watts
Class	Class C0 FM Station
Callsign meaning	STAR 94
Owner	Lincoln Financial Media
Website	www.star94.com

WSTR FM ("Star 94", 94.1 MHz) is an Atlanta FM radio station that plays Top 40 Music. It is owned by Lincoln Financial Media, and has Smyrna, Georgia as its city of license.

From the early 1970s until late 1989, this station was top 40 94Q (WQXI-FM). Then,in 1989 it switched to "Star 94" after purchasing the call sign "WSTR" from a Sturgis, Michigan radio station (now WMSH). The station in recent years has begun to play some hip hop songs but remains more pop and rock oriented than most Top 40-style stations, similar to Hot AC stations. Its core audience: 18 to 49 year old women, therefore it is sometimes classified as an Adult Top 40 station, a hybrid of Hot AC and Top 40. Thus, Star 94 is sometimes listed under the Hot AC format, although lately the hip hop has been toned down due to poor feedback from listeners on the change.

Several influential air personalities have worked at the Atlanta station, including American Idol's Ryan Seacrest. Seacrest interned for a short time on the night show with Tom Sullivan, before moving to weekends. He did this while attended Dunwoody High School in nearby Dekalb County.

The current staff includes:

The Steve & Vikki show, one of Atlanta's longest running morning shows. Steve and Vikki have been nominated for the Marconi award twice in their Atlanta careers.
Tripp West does Middays.
The afternoon drive show is Cindy & Ray, which is like a morning show in its approach.
Nudge is the night-time guy.

The station's general manager, Mark Kanov, has worked at the station since the late 1960s.

WSTR broadcasts in HD Radio With an eclectic rock mix on HD-2 and a simulcast of WQXI's sports talk format on HD-3.

WABE and WSTR are currently Atlanta's only FM stations broadcasting programming on HD-3.

WSTR FM shares a tower with WPBA TV 30, and in fact shares the same antenna with WSB-FM 98.5 and WVEE FM 103.3. The three radio stations' transmitters are diplexed together, so that they all feed to the antenna instead of into each other.

[edit] Trivia

WQXI was the inspiration for the television show WKRP in Cincinnati, and the character Johnny Fever was based on WQXI's morning host Skinny Bobby Harper. [1]
WQXI was the first in the United States to play Augustana's song "Boston".