WQFS

Infobox Radio station
name = WQFS


city = Greensboro, North Carolina
area = Triad
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branding = "Your Only Alternative"
frequency = 90.9 MHz
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format = Variety
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erp = 1,900 watts
haat = 61.0 meters
class = A
facility_id = 68233
coordinates = coord|36|5|39.00|N| 79|53|21.00|W|region:US_type:city
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owner = Guilford College
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WQFS (90.9 FM) is Guilford College's student-run radio station, with both students and members of the community serving as disk jockeys. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WQFS |title=WQFS Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ] Broadcasting in a variety format, it serves Greensboro, North Carolina and the greater Piedmont Triad area. WQFS is currently ranked number eight in the Princeton Review's Best College Radio Stations. [ cite web|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/login3.aspx?RDN=1&uidbadge=%07 |title=Princeton Review's Best College Radio Stations |work=2009 edition ] The station has consistently maintained a spot in the contest's top ten since at least the early 2000s.

History

The station started as a student club, The Fine Music Broadcasting Society, in 1965. Guilford obtained a licence from the FCC on October 26, 1966 and, once it had the necessary equipment and funds, WQFS began a daily broadcast schedule on January 6, 1970, broadcasting in an adult contemporary or middle of the road format. [ cite web|url=http://www.guilford.edu/wqfs/aboutus.htm |title=WQFS About Us|] By its second year of operation, some disk jockeys began to play what a decade later would become known as college rock. Others would play hybrid programming, which could feature avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical, bluegrass, blues, and Musique concrète, sometimes all within the same program.

One early experiment involved celebrating the second anniversary of the Paul Is Dead hoax by playing not only Beatles, but other rock, and even classical records backwards, or using the station's two turntables to play a Beatles song forwards and backwards at the same time.

Like many college stations, WQFS currently features a wide variety of genres, all with a strong focus on independent music labels.

Programming

Alphabetical listing of programs airing on WQFS as of September 2008, all independently produced and hosted by volunteer disc jockeys unless otherwise noted:

* [http://www.myspace.com/stevendprice Bits and Pieces Show with the Original Steve-O]
*Buddy Ro Radio
* [http://www.carpediemwqfs.com/ Carpe Diem]
* [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22WQFS%20Counter%20Folks%22 Counter Folks]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=86613271 Garden of Good and Evil]
* [http://web.me.com/heydn/Site/geekfm.html Geek FM]
*Democracy Now! (produced by Democracy Now! and distributed by Pacifica Radio)
*DJ Props
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=203267641 Flava Lab]
* [http://deaconlight.com/music/artists/m/maddogrockparty/ Friday Night Rock Party with Maddog]
* [http://qfsmayhem.blogspot.com/ J's Indie Rock Mayhem]
*Jersey Girl Review
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=235123619 Let the Good Times Roll with Wild Bill]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/34692492 Monkey Wrench Radio]
* [http://pwradio.net/ Paddy-Whacked Radio]
*Radio Bravo
*Rock and Roll Study Hall
* [http://rootsofrock.alturl.com/ Roots of Rock Show]
* [http://sites.kindweb.com/stonerserenade/ Stoner Serenade]
*SubGenius Radio Ministries Hour of Slack (produced and distributed by the Church of the SubGenius)
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=5479695 Sunday Morning Rehab Show]
*Sunday Evening Sound
*The Canadian Connection with Cool Breeze from North of the Border
*The Caravan with Chef Dave
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=229685667 The North Carolina Show]
*The Old Country Store
*Tom's Diner
*Uncle Bill's Basement
* [http://jackcrumpton.tripod.com/beachmusic45/id262.html Weekend Beach Party]
*Weekend Warp Drive
*Worker's Playtime
*WQFS Blues Show

References

External links

* [http://www.guilford.edu/wqfs/ WQFS]
*myspace|wqfs
*FM station data|WQFS
* [http://qfsmayhem.blogspot.com/ J's Indie/Rock Mayhem] , a blog by a WQFS DJ