WZYQ (101.7
FM) is an
urban adult contemporary formatted
broadcast
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radio station.
The station is licensed to
Mound Bayou, Mississippi and serves
Cleveland and
Shelby in
Mississippi.
WZYQ is licensed to Fenty L. Fuss and operated by Delta Radio Network.
History
WZYQ signed on at 101.9 MHz, on a separate license, on October 10, 1997.
In June 2006, the station's owner, Jerry D. Russell, suffered a stroke. The station was being operated by another broadcaster, Hodges Broadcasting LLC, under a
local marketing agreement
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but that operator was unable to obtain the financing to purchase the station. With Hodges gone and Russell unable to operate the station himself, WZYQ went
off the air for good in early 2007. In a February 2011 letter to the FCC, the owner indicated that he was surrendering the station's broadcast license as well as the licenses for ten
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
s in similar dire circumstances.
On May 2, 2011, the station's license was cancelled and the WZYQ call sign assignment was deleted permanently from the FCC database.
In 2015, Fuss won at auction a new construction permit for the Mound Bayou allocation—now moved to 101.7 MHz. The new station took the same call letters as the old one and went on air in July, initially simulcasting
WIQQ
WIQQ (102.1 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station that broadcasts a Contemporary hit radio, Top 40/CHR music format. WIQQ is licensed to Leland, Mississippi, United States. Studios and offices are located at 830 Main Street in Greenville, Missi ...
(102.1 FM).
References
External links
Star 101 Online*
{{Clarksdale MS Radio
1997 establishments in Mississippi
Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
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Mound Bayou, Mississippi