WQMA
WQMA was a broadcast radio station licensed to Marks, Mississippi. The station was owned by Jason Konarz with an oldies format on 1520 kHz. Its F.C.C. license was cancelled May 31, 2006. WQMA had operated under Special Temporary Authority from the F.C.C., but it was denied August 20, 2010. The station exhausted its appeal options, and its application for license renewal was dismissed by the FCC on May 20, 2015.
WQMA was a daytime-only station, though heard on the internet 24 hours a day. Also heard on Public-access television cable TV channel 7 in Joplin, Missouri. WQMA’s website is no longer functional
Programming
WQMA broadcast national programming all weekend long that included:- 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
- National Countdown Show with Al Gross
- Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s
- Rick Dees Weekly Top 40: The 80s
- Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember
- Dick Bartley's American Gold
- Ross Brittain's Weekend Hit Machine
- American Top 10 with Casey Kasem
- Dr. Demento
- DC and the Family
In the past, on New Year's Eve, WQMA 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.