WQMA

DWQMA was a broadcast radio station licensed to Marks, Mississippi. The station was owned by Jason Konarz and operates an oldies format over the air on 1520 kHz. Its F.C.C. license was cancelled May 31, 2006. DWQMA had operated under Special Temporary Authority from the F.C.C. but it was denied August 20, 2010. The station's renewal application is still pending before the F.C.C..

DWQMA 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 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)

DWQMA also broadcast local programming including a "8-Track Thursday" feature with owner Jason Konarz where the station played 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, DWQMA 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.

External links

• Official Web site
• Radio-Locator Information on WQMA
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WQMA