WQMA is a broadcast radio station licensed to Marks, Mississippi

Marks, Mississippi

Marks is a city in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,551. It is the county seat of Quitman County...

. The station is owned by Jason Konarz and operates an oldies

Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....

 format over the air on 1520 kHz. The station currently operates with Special Temporary Authority from the FCC while issues regarding previous fines for the station are negotated.

WQMA broadcasts over the air only during the daytime, but broadcasts on the Internet 24 hours a day, and has also been broadcast on Public-access television

Public-access television

Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...

 cable TV channel 7 in Joplin, Missouri

Joplin, Missouri

Joplin is a city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the US state of Missouri. Joplin is the largest city in Jasper County, though it is not the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 50,150...

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Programming

WQMA broadcasts the best national programming all weekend long that includes the following:

• Foundcuts with Dave Newfell
• Relics and Rarities with Dave The Rave
• Both of Steve Goddard's programs, Goddard's Gold and The 70s
• Flashback with Bill St. James
  Flashback (radio program)
  Flashback is an American radio show syndicated by Cumulus Media Networks . It is hosted by the "irreverent" Bill St. James , and is programmed by Tom Powell. The show is produced by Powell, Rob Frankel and Frank Guida. Guida also writes the show...
  
  
• SuperGold with Mike Harvey (airs on a six-day delay on Friday nights)

The station also airs three consecutive countdown shows, each from a different decade in succession on Saturday:

• National Countdown Show with Al Gross (a countdown from the 1950s or 1960s)
• Casey Kasem
  Casey Kasem
  Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...
  
  's American Top 40: The 70s
• Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
  Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
  Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 is an internationally-syndicated radio program created and hosted by American radio personality Rick Dees. It is currently heard on over 200 radio stations worldwide and the American Forces Network. It is distributed domestically by Citadel Media Networks and...
  
  : The 80s

Former programming includes:

• Dick Clark's Rock, Roll and Remember (Clark suffered stroke; canceled by network after several years of reruns)
• Dick Bartley
  Dick Bartley
  Dick Bartley, a popular American radio disc jockey since 21 June 1969, hosts several popular syndicated radio shows of the oldies/classic hits genre, including the current Classic Countdown since 1991 and the Saturday night call-in request show Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits since 1982...
  
  's American Gold
  American Gold
  The Classic Countdown is a syndicated weekly, four-hour, hit-packed, oldies countdown program which was written, produced and hosted by Radio Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Dick Bartley...
  
   (changed networks, WQMA declined to pick show up)
• Ross Brittain
  WOGL
  WOGL is an FM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.The station plays mostly post 1964 pop leaning Oldies positioned Classic Hits music, including Motown, soul and rock and roll spanning roughly 1964–1985. An occasional pre-1964 song is played. WOGL is owned by CBS Radio...
  
  's Weekend Hit Machine (canceled by network)
• American Top 10 with Casey Kasem
  Casey Kasem
  Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...
  
   (Kasem retired; replaced by AT40 reruns)
• Dr. Demento
  Dr. Demento
  Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....
  
   (pulled show from WQMA over a dispute over rights fees and Internet streaming, show is now Internet only)
• DC and the Family
  DC and the Family
  The Steve and DC Morning Show was a show that broadcast out of St. Louis, Missouri. It starred Steve and DC and revolved around current news stories, entertainment gossip, games, phone shams, debates on current events, and personal stories from the cast and their families.On April 23, 2008 Steve...
  
   (former morning show, no reason given for discontinuation)

WQMA also broadcasts local programming including a "8-Track Thursday" feature with owner Jason Konarz where the station plays music from 8-track cartridges all afternoon long, the "Gospel Train With James Figgs", "Guest DJ Day" where local residents can be a DJ, and has in the past featured Delta Academy sports play-by-play. The station broadcasts daily features like "All Things Southern" and the "Old Farmers Almanac Radio Report".

In the past, on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...

, WQMA has aired a marathon of Rock, Roll and Remember episodes, interspersed with audio clips of past episodes of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.