WCVQ is a Fort Campbell

Fort Campbell

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-licensed radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format in the Clarksville-Hopkinsville broadcast area. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC. and is also broadcast on HD radio

HD Radio

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History

The station was assigned the call letters WABD-FM on 1979-07-18. On 1986-12-03, the station changed its call sign to the current WCVQ. WCVQ studios and offices are co-located with it sister stations WVVR 100.3, WZZP-FM 97.5, WEGI-FM 94.3, WJQI-AM 1370, AND WKFN AM 540 in Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee; all of which are make up a cluster known as the 5 Star Radio Group, a unit of Saga Communications

Saga Communications

Saga Communications is a broadcasting company that owns and operates stations in 26 markets in the United States. The company, which is based in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, primarily operates radio stations , but it also operates 9 television stations Saga Communications is a broadcasting...

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In 1968 the owners of WABD-AM (Ft. Campbell, KY) put a sister FM station on the air as WABD-FM. In 1986, under new ownership by Southern Broadcasting, the FM was upgraded to 100,000 watts and took on the call letters WCVQ FM “Q-108” on December 3, 1986 and began a gold-based adult contemporary format while the WABD AM 1370 changed to an urban format. Q108 has since been bought up by Saga Communications

Saga Communications

Saga Communications is a broadcasting company that owns and operates stations in 26 markets in the United States. The company, which is based in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, primarily operates radio stations , but it also operates 9 television stations Saga Communications is a broadcasting...

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WCVQ-FM is in both the Clarksville-Hopkinsville, Ky Radio Markets as well as the Nashville Market. Gretchen Cordy, A Clarksville Native who Starred in Survivor: Borneo

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 hosts the stations morning show along with Ryan Ploeckelman. The show is called "Ryan and Gretchen" and airs from 6-9AM. Scott Chase is the Afternoon Drive Personality from 2- 6PM. Chase is formerly known as the Program Director of the Former WSSR

WBTP

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 "Star 95.7" in Tampa, Florida

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The Station Plays Kid Kelleys Backtrax USA

Backtrax USA

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 on Sunday Nights from 8PM-Midnight. Playing both the 80's and 90's Versions and has been doing so since the Mid-1990'S. (Since 2003 for the 90's Version.)

Signal Coverage

Q108's Primary Coverage Area is the Clarksville

Clarksville, Tennessee

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, Hopkinsville

Hopkinsville, Kentucky

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 Metropolitan Area. Covering the area of Western Kentucky and Northern Middle Tennessee. Q108 also secondarily covers the Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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 Metropolitan Area as well as the Paducah

Paducah, Kentucky

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 area. Its signal can be heard as far away as Southern Illinois

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