WQMA

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City of license	Marks
Broadcast area	Mississippi Delta
Slogan	The Delta's Oldies Channel
Frequency	1520 kHz
First air date	December 1, 1969
Format	Oldies
Language	English
Power	250 watts daytime only
Class	D
Facility ID	1219
Transmitter coordinates	34º15'42"N, 90º17'18"W
Callsign meaning	(Deleted) W-QuitMAn (County)
Former callsigns	WQMA (1969-5/31/2006)
Owner	Jason Konarz
Website	http://www.q1520radio.com/

WQMA is a broadcast radio station licensed to Marks, Mississippi. The station is owned by Jason Konarz and operates an oldies format over the air on 1520 kHz. The station currently operates with Special Temporary Authority from the FCC while issues regarding previous fines for the station are negotated.

WQMA broadcasts over the air only during the daytime, but broadcasts on the Internet 24 hours a day, and has also been broadcast on Public-access television cable TV channel 7 in Joplin, Missouri.

Programming

WQMA broadcasts the best national programming all weekend long that includes the following:

Foundcuts with Dave Newfell
Relics and Rarities with Dave The Rave
Both of Steve Goddard's programs, Goddard's Gold and The 70s
Flashback with Bill St. James
SuperGold with Mike Harvey (airs on a six-day delay on Friday nights)

The station also airs three consecutive countdown shows, each from a different decade in succession on Saturday:

National Countdown Show with Al Gross (a countdown from the 1950s or 1960s)
Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40: The 80s

Former programming includes:

Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember (Clark suffered stroke; canceled by network after several years of reruns)
Dick Bartley's American Gold (changed networks, WQMA declined to pick show up)
Ross Brittain's Weekend Hit Machine (canceled by network)
American Top 10 with Casey Kasem (Kasem retired; replaced by AT40 reruns)
Dr. Demento (pulled show from WQMA over a dispute over rights fees and Internet streaming, show is now Internet only)
DC and the Family (former morning show, no reason given for discontinuation)

WQMA also broadcasts local programming including a "8-Track Thursday" feature with owner Jason Konarz where the station plays music from 8-track cartridges all afternoon long, the "Gospel Train With James Figgs", "Guest DJ Day" where local residents can be a DJ, and has in the past featured Delta Academy sports play-by-play. The station broadcasts daily features like "All Things Southern" and the "Old Farmers Almanac Radio Report".

In the past, on New Year's Eve, WQMA has aired a marathon of Rock, Roll and Remember episodes, interspersed with audio clips of past episodes of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.

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