KMAQ

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KMAQ
Broadcast area	Maquoketa, Iowa
Frequency	1320 kHz
Format	Country, farm
ERP	500 Watts (unlimited)
Class	C
Owner	Maquoketa Broadcasting Co.
Website	[1]

KMAQ-FM
Broadcast area	Maquoketa, Iowa
Frequency	95.1 mHz
Format	Adult contemporary
ERP	3,000 Watts
Class	A
Owner	Maquoketa Broadcasting Co.
Website	http://www.kmaq.com

KMAQ is an American radio station, licensed to operate at AM 1320 and FM 95.1 from Maquoketa, Iowa. Both stations simulcast each other for about half the broadcast day.

1 History
2 KMAQ People
3 KMAQ Today
4 External links

[edit] History

KMAQ (AM) went on the air August 26, 1958, owned and operated by the Jackson County Broadcasting Company with headquarters in Monroe, Wisconsin. One of the three partners then was Nathan L. Goets, who now, as President of Goetz Broadcasting, Inc., owns radio stations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Goetz and his partners sold KMAQ to Dennis W. Voy in 1965. Voy was the station manager at the time and had started with the station as an announcer when the station first began. He assumed ownership as Maquoketa Broadcast Company in October 1, 1965. Two years later, KMAQ-FM was built, adding nighttime radio for the Maquoketa area for the first time. KMAQ (AM) would not receive nighttime power authorization until the late 80's.

KMAQ from the start has had strong listenership in Jackson, Clinton and Jones County, and in some portions of Dubuque and Cedar Counties. KMAQ AM & FM, with separate programming since the early 1980's, are the only two radio stations in the local Jackson County area. There are no radio stations currently on the air in Jones or Cedar County.

[edit] KMAQ People

KMAQ has the distinction of having an all-female sales force, with the exception of its sales manager Leighton Hepker, who also serves as station manager.

[edit] KMAQ Today

KMAQ remains the area's only locally-owned and operated radio station, with no out-of-market consultant or ownership, programmed to the needs of its community. It also bears the distinction of being only a handful of radio stations across the country today with a live, local, real-time on-air staff.