KQUS-FM
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KQUS-FM known as "US97", is a country music
formatted radio station
located in Hot Springs
, Arkansas
. It broadcasts with an ERP of 100,000 Watts from its broadcast tower on Mount Riante, south of Hot Springs in Garland County, Arkansas, where it shares tower space with sister station KHTO.
KQUS is owned and operated by US Stations, LLC, a local company that also owns KHTO, KLXQ-FM, & KZNG-AM in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
With a 13.0 share (12+), US97 was ranked #1 of 21 in Arbitron
Ratings Data for Spring of '11.
Notable weekday on-air programming includes mornings with the "US97 Wake-Up Crew" with Craig Dale & Vicki Parker, middays with Tom Duke and afternoons with David B. Treadway.
KQUS-FM shares a building with sister stations KHTO, KLXQ-FM, KLBL-FM and KZNG-AM.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
formatted radio station
Radio station
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located in Hot Springs
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Hot Springs is the 10th most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas, the county seat of Garland County, and the principal city of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area encompassing all of Garland County...
, Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
. It broadcasts with an ERP of 100,000 Watts from its broadcast tower on Mount Riante, south of Hot Springs in Garland County, Arkansas, where it shares tower space with sister station KHTO.
KQUS is owned and operated by US Stations, LLC, a local company that also owns KHTO, KLXQ-FM, & KZNG-AM in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
With a 13.0 share (12+), US97 was ranked #1 of 21 in Arbitron
Arbitron
Arbitron is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio audiences. It was founded as American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with L.A. based Coffin, Cooper and Clay in the early 1950s...
Ratings Data for Spring of '11.
Notable weekday on-air programming includes mornings with the "US97 Wake-Up Crew" with Craig Dale & Vicki Parker, middays with Tom Duke and afternoons with David B. Treadway.
Studio location
The US Stations broadcast studio is in the former KVTH-TV Channel 26 building near the Hot Springs Mall. The previous US97 studio was in the upstairs part of the television studio, but has since moved to a new addition built in late 2006.KQUS-FM shares a building with sister stations KHTO, KLXQ-FM, KLBL-FM and KZNG-AM.