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WQMG
Broadcast areaGreensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Frequency97.1 MHz
Branding97.1 WQMG (or sometimes 97.1 QMG)
Programming
FormatUrban Adult Contemporary
Ownership
Owner
WJMH, WPAW, WSMW
History
First air date
1947 (as WFMY at 97.3)
Former call signs
WFMY (1947-1952)
Former frequencies
97.3 MHz (1947-1950)
Call sign meaning
Where Quality Music Lives In Greensboro
Technical information
Facility ID47078
ClassC0
ERP100,000 watts
HAAT327 meters
Transmitter coordinates
35°56′42″N 79°51′45″W / 35.94500°N 79.86250°W / 35.94500; -79.86250
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websitewqmg.com

WQMG is an Urban Adult Contemporary station licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina and serves the Piedmont Triad region, which also includes High Point and Winston-Salem. The Entercom outlet broadcasts at 97.1 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. The station's studios are located near the Piedmont Triad International Airport, and a transmitter site is in unincorporated south Guilford County.

History

The earliest roots of this station date to 1947 and a station with the call letters WFMY on 97.3 MHz, owned by the Greensboro News Company, publishers of the Greensboro Daily News and Daily Record (now merged as the Greensboro News & Record). Two years after its founding as an FM station, its owners constructed WFMY-TV, the first television station in Greensboro and the second in North Carolina.

By 1950, the station was moved to its current 97.1 MHz, but the station was taken off the air in 1952 as the company devoted more of its resources to television. The station returned to air under new ownership by 1962 with the call letters WQMG, which stood for "Where Quality Music lives in Greensboro." In the early 1970s, WQMG aired an adult contemporary format known as "Stereo Island."

WQMG was very successful in the 1970s and 1980s as an Urban Contemporary format under the name "The New Power 97 FM". But by 1996 they would move to their current format, after becoming the sister station to WJMH. Following the format change of competitor WMKS, WQMG is now the sole Adult R&B station in the market. WQMG is the Triad's syndicated home of the Tom Joyner Morning Show.