WQMX

WQMX

City	Medina, Ohio
Broadcast area	Akron metro area Greater Cleveland (limited)
Branding	FM 94.9 WQMX
Slogan	Your Station! Your Country!
Frequency	94.9 MHz
First air date	1960
Format	Country
ERP	16,000 watts
HAAT	268 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	43872
Transmitter coordinates	41°04′58.00″N 81°38′0.00″W / 41.0827778°N 81.6333333°W / 41.0827778; -81.6333333
Callsign meaning	W Q "MiX" (former format)
Former callsigns	WDBN (1960–88)
Owner	Rubber City Radio Group, Inc. (Rubber City Radio Group, Inc.)
Sister stations	WAKR, WNWV, WONE-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wqmx.com

WQMX (94.9 FM) – branded FM 94.9 WQMX – is a commercial country radio station licensed to Medina, Ohio. Owned by Rubber City Radio Group, Inc., the station primarily serves the Akron metro area, but also reaches parts of Greater Cleveland. The WQMX studios are located in Akron, while the station transmitter resides in the neighboring suburb of Copley Township.

History

WQMX began as WDBN in 1960 under license to Barberton, Ohio;^[1] the station first aired a beautiful music format. Branded as The Quiet Island, WDBN was one of the early adopters of the beautiful music format that minimized announcements and included no vocal music. Jim Schulke, one of the early beautiful music format programmers, developed much of his programming philosophies at the station.

WDBN was also an early adopter of FM stereo, broadcasting in FM stereo by November 1961. When the FCC limited stations in the area to a maximum ERP of 50 kW, WDBN was "grandfathered" and allowed to maintain its 118 kW signal. As a result, the station blanketed the Cleveland market and could be heard throughout Northeast Ohio and was frequently heard as far away as Flint, Michigan, although its signal in the City of Cleveland was spotty due to the terrain between Cleveland and Medina. By 1967, the station had changed its city of license to Medina, Ohio.^[2]

With the popularity of beautiful music in the 1960s, WDBN became very successful. Soon other stations in the market flipped to beautiful music, including WQAL, WDOK, WKSW, WAEZ and WBEA. WQAL soon began to dominate, and WDBN lost market share, despite utilizing some of the area's legendary broadcasters, including Jeff Baxter, Walt Henrich, David Mark,Tom Field, Gary Short and Jim Field. Henrich, Mark, and Jim Field were eventually heard on WKSW. Walt Henrich was also heard on WDOK while David Mark was popular on all of the aforementioned stations except WAEZ. Eventually the audience for beautiful music became older, and less desirable, and the format was changed to adult contemporary in August 1988.

The station was sold to Gordon-Thomas Communications, Inc., headed by Thom Mandel, on June 2, 1988. It changed its callsign to WQMX on August 15, 1988 and became Mix 94.9; radio personality Bill Miller was heard during this time.^[3] It switched to a country format on April 5, 1993. Gordon-Thomas Communications changed its name to Rubber City Radio Group on December 6, 1993, the same day that it purchased WAKR and WONE-FM.

Under Rubber City's direction, the station has targeted the Akron broadcast market as "Akron's Own Country", though it is still heard in much of the Cleveland area.

Current programming

Nearly all programming is local: Scott Wynn and Sue Wilson host the weekday morning show, while various other local personalities host music shifts throughout the week.^[4]

References

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WQMX

Radio-Locator information on WQMX

Radio stations in the Akron, Ohio market

By AM frequency	640 1150 1350 1590

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 91.3 94.9 97.5 98.1 100.1

By callsign	WAKR WAPS WARF WCUE WHLO WKDD WKSU WNIR WONE-FM WQMX WSTB WZIP

Online	Black Squirrel Radio

Defunct	1520 WJMP

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in Ohio

Country music radio stations in the state of Ohio

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By city	Ashland Ashtabula Bellaire Belpre Buchtel Bucyrus Caldwell Chillicothe Cincinnati (WNNF) Cincinnati (WUBE-FM) Cleveland Clyde/Sandusky Columbus Coshocton Dayton Defiance Eaton Englewood/Dayton Enon/Dayton Findlay Fostoria Gallipolis Geneva Heath Hillsboro Huron/Sandusky Jackson Lancaster Lima Lima Logan Luckey/Toledo Marion Medina/Akron Middletown Millersburg Montpelier Nelsonville Newark Niles Oberlin Pemberville/Toledo Philo Racine Salem Springfield Toledo Uhrichsville Union City Waverly Washington Court House West Union Wilmington Wooster Xenia

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Ohio

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