WKDQ Celebrates Its Birthday Today!

Just a day after we celebrated the 1 year Birthday/Anniversary, we are celebrating 24 wonderful years of country music heard right here on WKDQ!

Big Bill Love (Who can be heard every Saturday morning 6-10am with Classic Country) reminded the Tri-State that it was right after Paul Harvey on September 15th, 1992 that country came to WKDQ!

It has been quite the ride so far! Here is a quick history of WKDQ according to Wikipedia:

"Begun by Hecht Lackey, owner of WSON (860 AM), the station received the call letters WSON-FM when it went on the air in 1947, and most of the FM station's programming in the early years was simulcast from the AM station. In 1971, the FM station switched to a rock format and the call letters were changed to WKDQ.

By the mid-to-late 1980s, WKDQ had switched to an adult contemporary/oldies hybrid format and was known on-air as "KQ99." While it did reasonably well, management saw greater opportunity in challenging "WYNG 105" (now WJLT, 105.3 FM) and WBKR (92.5 FM), so in 1992 they flipped WKDQ to country.

The station instantly became a success, surpassing WYNG and WBKR in ratings. Eventually, WYNG's country format was completely eliminated and eventually those call letters moved to 94.9 FM in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. WKDQ is currently the highest rated country station in the Evansville market"

Thank you to EVERYONE who listens and helps make WKDQ a great station!