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| Broadcast area | Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
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| Frequency | 99.3MHz |
| Branding | Real Rock 99.3 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Active rock |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio,Premiere Radio Networks |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KEZS-FM,KGIR,KGKS,KZIM | |
| History | |
First air date | 1978 (as KJAQ-FM) |
Former call signs | KJAQ-FM (1978–1989) KTXI (1989–1992) KCGQ (1992–1992) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64621 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 5,000watts |
| HAAT | 109 meters (358 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°21′34″N89°37′16″W / 37.35944°N 89.62111°W /37.35944; -89.62111 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | realrock993.com |
KCGQ-FM (99.3FM) is aradio station broadcasting anactive rock format. Licensed toGordonville, Missouri, United States, the station is currently owned by Max Media and licensed to River Radio LLC and features programming fromABC Radio andPremiere Radio Networks.[2]
The station was started in 1978 by Rainbow Broadcasting, owners ofKJAS 1170 located inJackson, Missouri. The originalcall letters were KJAQ-FM, "Q99". The station was sold to Al Sikes in the early 1980s. Target Media, owned by Tom Stine and Mark Rollings, purchased the stations in 1986 and moved the station from a 3-bedroom house in Gordonville to new studios inCape Girardeau. Target Media sold KJAS AM 1170 in 1988. Target Media then sold Q99 to Zimmer Broadcasting in 1997. Zimmer sold the station—along with all of its other southeast Missouri (Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, and Poplar Bluff), and southern Illinois (Marion and Carbondale) properties (17 stations:WCIL,WCIL-FM,WJPF,WOOZ-FM,WUEZ,WXLT, KCGQ-FM,KEZS-FM,KGIR,KGKS,KJEZ,KKLR-FM,KLSC,KMAL,KSIM,KWOC, andKZIM) -- toMax Media, LLC.[3] The sales occurred in December 2003, for a reported price of $43 million.[4]
The Zimmer Radio Group, a family-owned media company, announced Wednesday it will sell 17 of its 32 stations [...] to Mississippi River Radio.
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