WKCQ

WKCQ

File:WKCQ-FM.jpg
City of license	Saginaw, Michigan
Broadcast area	Saginaw-Bay City-Midland
Branding	98FM - KCQ (up to May 2010) 98 - KCQ (May 2010-present)
Slogan	Today's Best Country (up to 2009) Mid-Michigan's Country Superstation (2008-present) The Most Country (2009-May 2010) Mid-Michigan's Most New Country (May 2010-present)
Frequency	98.1 MHz
Format	Country
Power	50,000 watts
HAAT	150 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	65927
Transmitter coordinates
Former callsigns	WSAM-FM
Owner	MacDonald Broadcasting
Sister stations	WMJO, WSAG
Website	98fmkcq.com

WKCQ (98.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan. The station has broadcast a popular country music format since 1968 (the country format began under the station's original calls of WSAM-FM). Every year since 1992, the station hosts a free concert on Ojibway Island in downtown Saginaw. Under the right conditions it can be heard all the way in Port Sanilac. For a period of time, WKCQ's listenership in the Flint area declined when WFBE, with which it competes with in Genesee County, Michigan, switched to country, however listenership has rebounded in the Flint area due to the stability of its on-air talent, with Jim Kramer, Kevin Profitt, Greg Cole and Brian Bailey, among others, having been with the station for a decade or more. It is also one of the highest-rated radio stations in the Great Lakes Bay region, where it competes with WCEN-FM. Nearby competition also includes WITL-FM in Lansing in Shiawassee County, Michigan.

Sources

• Michiguide.com - WKCQ History

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WKCQ
• Radio-Locator information on WKCQ
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WKCQ