WQPM (1300 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

airing a

classic country Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades. Repertoire The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...

format. Licensed to

Princeton, Minnesota Princeton is a city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, Mille Lacs and Sherburne County, Minnesota, Sherburne counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota, at the junction of the Rum River and its West branch. It is 50 miles north of Minneapolis and 30 m ...

, United States, the station serves the St. Cloud area. The station is currently owned by Milestone Radio LLC.

History

On September 13, 2018, WQPM changed formats from oldies to classic hits, branded as "Killer Bee Radio". On December 21, 2019, the station began stunting. On January 1, 2020, the station returned to being known as ''The Big Q'', playing

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...

music. On February 13, 2022, WQPM changed their format from oldies to a simulcast of classic country-formatted

KLCI KLCI (106.1 FM, "Total Country BOB-FM") is a radio station serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area of Minnesota, United States, that broadcasts a country music format It is licensed to suburban Elk River, Minnesota and serves the Twin Citie ...

106.1 FM Elk River, branded as "Total Country Bob FM".Bob Expands To Five Minnesota Stations
Radioinsight - February 14, 2022 Big Q Radio, however, continues streaming oldies on the internet
Big Q Live
as well as on

KDDG KDDG (105.5 FM, "BOB-FM") is a commercial radio station in St. Cloud, Minnesota St. Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's central region. The population was 68,881 at the 2020 cens ...

105.5 & 106.1 HD3.

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