WRQQ
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WRQQ is a radio station broadcasting on the FM band at 97.1 MHz licensed to the city of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, but serving the Nashville market as a whole. It is currently branded as Oldies 97.1, broadcasting an oldies format. It is owned by Cumulus Media and operates out of studios on Nashville's world-famous "Music Row". Its transmitter is located just north of downtown Nashville. It is Nashville's most recent (and likely final) full-power FM station to take the air.
History
Star 97
WRQQ signed on the air in early 2000 (its license was granted on November 24, 1999) as Star 97, a station broadcasting Hot Adult Contemporary music. In 2002, the station shifted to an all-1980s music format but kept its "Star 97" name. The station would eventually migrate back to Hot AC in 2003, again keeping the "Star 97" brand.
Though the name stayed the same through the various changes, the station used four different taglines/slogans:
- A Better Variety of Music!
- The Best of the 80s, 90s, and Today!
- The Best 80s and More!
- Real Music Variety!
Oldies 97.1
On May 13, 2005, the station made a drastic change by flipping its format to oldies. The day before, 96.3 WMAK (now WCJK), which had broadcast the oldies format in Nashville for over a decade, suddenly changed formats to "Jack FM". Sensing a void, Cumulus management reacted by changing WRQQ to the newly-abandoned oldies format. The new station virtually copied the formula that WMAK had set forth. The logo is nearly identical to the one WMAK used, the same slogan ("Good Times & Great Oldies") is incorporated, and the major components of WMAK's airstaff, including Nashville radio legend Coyote McCloud, were hired.See also
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