WQMA
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 (aired on a six-day delay on Friday nights)
The station also aired three consecutive countdown shows, each from a different decade in succession on Saturday:
- National Countdown Show with Al Gross (a countdown from the 1950s or 1960s)
- Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s
- Rick Dees Weekly Top 40: The 80s
Former programming included:
- Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember (in 2004 Dick Clark suffered a stroke, thus the show was cancelled by the network after several years of reruns)
- Dick Bartley's American Gold (changed networks, WQMA declined to pick show up)
- Ross Brittain's Weekend Hit Machine (canceled by network)
- American Top 10 with Casey Kasem (Kasem retired; replaced by AT40 reruns)
- Dr. Demento (pulled show from WQMA over a dispute over rights fees and Internet streaming, show is now Internet only)
- DC and the Family (former morning show, no reason given for discontinuation)
WQMA also broadcast local programming including a "8-Track Thursday" feature with owner Jason Konarz, with music played from 8-track cartridges all afternoon. The "Gospel Train With James Figgs", "Guest DJ Day" where local residents could be a DJ, and previously Delta Academy sports play-by-play. The station broadcast daily features like "All Things Southern" and the "Old Farmers Almanac Radio Report".
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.
External links
- FCC Station Search Details: DWQMA (Facility ID: 1219)
- FCC History Cards (covering 1966-1979)