WQEN

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WQEN

City of license	Trussville, Alabama
Broadcast area	Birmingham, Alabama
Branding	103-7 The Q
Slogan	All the Hits
Frequency	103.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s)	103.1 W276BQ (Birmingham, relays HD2)
First air date	October 1966 (as WLJM-FM)
Format	Contemporary Hit Radio HD2: Active rock
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	285 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	22997
Callsign meaning	W QuEeN city (refers to Gadsden, the station's former city of license)
Former callsigns	WLJM-FM (1966-1975)
Owner	Clear Channel
Sister stations	WDXB, WERC, WERC-FM, WMJJ
Webcast	WQEN Webstream WQEN-HD2 Webstream
Website	1037theQ.com 1031thevulcan.com (HD2)

WQEN (103.7 FM, "103-7 the Q") is a radio station licensed to serve Trussville, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications. Other stations in the Birmingham market owned by Clear Channel include WDXB (102.5 FM), WERC-FM (105.5 FM), WERC (960 AM), W276BQ, and WMJJ (96.5 FM).

It broadcasts a Top 40 music format to Birmingham and north-central Alabama.^[1]

History

In October 1966, the station that is now WQEN signed on as WLJM-FM, licensed to Gadsden.^[2] The call letters stood for Lloyd, John and Mary Faye, the three children of original owner Charlie Boman. In 1974, WJLM was sold to Charles Smithgall and Mike McDougald who operated WAAX, also in Gadsden. In 1975, the FM station took its current call letters. After a brief run as an automated easy listening radio station, WQEN became one of the first FM Top 40 stations in Alabama, known on the air as "Super Q-104" and "Q-104 The Southern Super Giant". For over 30 years, WQEN has been a Top 40 station.

By 1976, the transmitter for WQEN was moved to Steele, some 15 miles south of Gadsden, and the power of its signal was increased to 100,000 watts. This enabled Q-104 to cover Gadsden, east Alabama, and many areas of the Birmingham metropolitan area. During this time WQEN was "Super Q-104" and "Q-104 The Southern Super Giant." Except for a brief period in the late '80's when the station was known as "103.7 Q-FM", the station was called Q-104 for over 20 years. Until the mid-1990s, Q-104 was primarily focused on Gadsden, Anniston, and eastern Alabama.

In 1998, WQEN began broadcasting from a tower near Springville, enabling its signal to cover the entire Birmingham market, and began broadcasting from studios in Birmingham. The station was rebranded with its current name, 103-7 the Q, at that time. At about the same time that the station focused on the Birmingham market it began simulcasting on new WQEM (101.5 FM), licensed to Columbiana. The simulcast continued until 2002, when WQEM was sold to Glen Iris Baptist School in Birmingham, the owners of WGIB.

WQEN was the first Top 40 station in the Birmingham market since WAPI-FM (I-95) dropped the format in 1994. Ironically, a second station in the market adopted the same format a few months later when WEDA, known on the air as Hot 97.3 signed on. That station changed formats in 2000. The DJ line-up featured Rick and Bubba in the mornings, Scott Bohannon (formerly of WAPI-FM/I-95) in middays, and Luka (formerly of WRAX/107-7 the X) in the afternoons.

In 2005, WQEN was one of several stations in north Alabama and southern Tennessee that changed either their city of license, broadcast frequency, or both. As a result, WQEN, now licensed to Trussville, rather than Gadsden, began broadcasting from Red Mountain in Birmingham, greatly improving its signal in Jefferson County and Shelby County.

References

↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
↑ "Directory of Radio Stations in the United States and Canada". Broadcasting Yearbook 1979. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1979. p. C-4.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WQEN

Radio-Locator information on WQEN

v t e Radio stations serving the Birmingham, Alabama market

by FM frequency	88.1 88.1 88.5 89.5 90.3 91.1 91.1 91.9 92.5 93.7 94.5 95.7 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.7 99.5 100.5 101.1 101.5 102.1 102.5 103.1 103.7 104.1 104.7 105.1 105.5 106.9 107.3 107.7

by AM frequency	610 690 760 850 900 960 1010 1050 1070 1220 1240 1260 1320 1360 1400 1430 1450 1480 1500 1540 1570

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.550

by call sign	KIH54 W271BN W276BQ W281AB W297BF WAGG WAPI WATV WAYE WBFR WBHJ WBHK WBHM WBNM WBPT WCOC WCRL WDJC-FM WDXB WENN WERC WERC-FM WEZZ-FM WFHK WGIB WHPH WIXI WJLD WJLX WJOX WJOX-FM WJQX WJSR WKDG WKRE WLJR WMJJ WNG606 WQCR WQEM WQEN WQOH WSJL WUHT WURL WVSU-FM WXJC WXJC-FM WYDE WYDE-FM WZGX WZRR WZZK-FM

Defunct	WBYE (1370 AM)

Alabama radio markets Birmingham Dothan Florence-Muscle Shoals Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Tuscaloosa Other Alabama radio regions Anniston Auburn Columbus, GA Gadsden Meridian, MS See also List of radio stations in Alabama

v t e Radio stations serving the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 90.7 91.5 92.9 93.7 94.1 94.5 95.3 96.5 96.9 98.1 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.1 100.5 100.9 101.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.3 (WTUS) 103.3 (WUAC) 103.7 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.9 106.3 106.9 107.7 107.9

By AM frequency	690 790 1110 1150 1230 1280 1340 1420

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400

by call sign	KIH60 WACT WALJ WBEI WBHK WBIB WBPT WDGM WDXB WFFN WGIB WJOX WJOX-FM WJQX WJRD WKUA WMFT WMHZ WMJJ WMXB WNPT-FM WQEN WRTR WTBC WTSK WTUG-FM WTUS-LP WTXT WUAC-LP WUAL WUHT WVUA-FM WWPG WZBQ WZRR WZZK-FM

Alabama radio markets Birmingham Dothan Florence-Muscle Shoals Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Tuscaloosa Other Alabama radio regions Anniston Auburn Columbus, GA Gadsden Meridian, MS See also List of radio stations in Alabama Columbus-Starkville-West Point Radio

v t e CHR / Top 40 radio stations in the state of Alabama

By frequency	94.1 94.9 97.5 99.5 100.9 101.7 101.9 102.7 103.7 104.3 106.7 107.3

By callsign	WABD WBEI WHHY WKMX WMSR WQEN WWFA WZBQ WZRR WZYP

By city	Birmingham (WQEN) Birmingham (WZRR) Dothan Florence (WMSR) Florence (WWFA) Huntsville Mobile (WABD) Mobile (WRGV) Montgomery Selma Tuscaloosa (WBEI) Tuscaloosa (WZBQ)

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Alabama See also Contemporary Hit Radio Rhythmic KISS-FM MOVin Radio Disney

v t e Clear Channel Communications

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (CEO, CC Media Holdings, Inc.) John Hogan (Chairman/CEO, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays (Chairman) Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by Clear Channel

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Coordinates: 33°26′38″N 86°52′48″W / 33.444°N 86.880°W / 33.444; -86.880

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