WQTE (95.3 FM, "Q-95 Country") is a radio station in

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, broadcasting a

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format. The station is live and local during the day on weekdays, and airs a satellite format from ABC Radio called "Country Coast-to-Coast" (known on air as "Today's Best Country") the remainder of the time. The station originally signed on as WABJ-FM in 1976, nearly immediately becoming WQTE. The station's original format was

beautiful music Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Easy listening, elevator musi ...

, changing to country sometime in the early 1980s. The station remains co-owned with

WABJ WABJ (1490 AM, "NewsTalk 1490") is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk radio format. Licensed to Adrian, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1946. WABJ is noted as a "springboard station" for some of the most well-known names in broadcas ...

(1490 AM) and

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-based

WBZV WBZV (102.5 FM, "Buzz 102.5") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Hudson, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1995 under the WMXE call sign. Unlike its sister stations WABJ and WQTE in Adrian, Michigan, WBZV pri ...

(102.5 FM). For several years, WQTE has referred to itself as "Q95 Country," presumably to avoid confusion with adjacent-channel

WKQI WKQI (95.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a Radio broadcasting, radio station serving Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a contemporary hit radio, Top 40/CHR format branded as ''Channel 955'' (pronounced "nine-five-five" ...

95.5 FM in Detroit, which called itself "Q95" for many years and serves the northeastern part of WQTE's listening area. The WQTE calls were originally used by what is now

WRDT WRDT (560 AM), known on the air as "The Word AM 560, Detroit's Christian Talk", is a radio station licensed to Monroe, Michigan, serving the Detroit metropolitan area. The station broadcasts in HD Radio with 500 Watts daytime power from a tran ...

AM 560 in

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(later WHND and WLLZ-AM) from 1959 to 1974.

References

Sources

Michiguide.com - WQTE History

External links

Q95country Facebook
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