WQBT (94.1 FM), known as "94.1 The Beat", is a

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licensed to

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. It is owned by

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Its studios are located in Garden City (with a Savannah address) and utilizes a transmitter located west of Savannah in unincorporated Chatham County.

Programming

The station had controversial morning hosts Star and Buc Wild—which replaced

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in the morning slot. Parr's show has since returned to WQBT's morning drive time slot, but as of 2016, it is now home to ''

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History

former logo Before the mid-1970s, the station was a simulcast of WTOC (AM), and had the callsign of WTOC-FM. Before it was an

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formatted station, it had a long stint as a

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formatted station to compete with daytimer WEAS. In the late '80s and early '90s, the callsign WCHY was part of the station's identity as a country station ("WCHY 94.1 Continuous Country"; the station would sometimes refer to itself as "Y-94".), thus the callsign's creation, as at that time it stood for We're Country Hits Y'all! WCHY (AM) and WCHY-FM were sold by Roth Broadcasting in 1995 to WP Radio, which in turn was selling its stations to Patterson Broadcasting as WP Radio left the business. Later, this station was WSCA-FM - "Cat Country 94."

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