WQNU is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a country music

Country music

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 format. Licensed to Lyndon, Kentucky

Lyndon, Kentucky

There were 4,520 households out of which 21.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.5% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 50.3% were non-families. 40.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.4% had someone...

, USA, the station serves the Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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, area. The station is currently owned by Cox Radio, Inc.

History

The station, formerly known as WSTM (for St. Matthews

St. Matthews, Kentucky

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, its former city of license), was assigned the call letters WNUU on 1978-08-28. On 1980-01-01, the station changed its callsign to WRKA. For much of the 1980's, the station had an adult contemporary music format. In the late '80's the station adopted a oldies

Oldies

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 format. On 2008-07-18, they changed callsigns to the current WQNU. The former WRKA callsign is now used on a sister station

WRKA

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in the Louisville market.

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