KOQL

KOQL (106.1 FM, "Q 106.1") is a top 40 (CHR)-formatted radio station owned by Cumulus Media. The station broadcasts from Columbia, Missouri, with an ERP of 69,000 watt (69 kW). The station serves the Mid-Missouri area. Its transmitter is located about 20 miles west of Jefferson City.

The station uses the slogan "All the hits." The station airs the syndicated The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show and mostly out-of-town DJs. Only the afternoon shift is broadcast locally.

In 1997, the station traded formats with 102.3 FM and became KOQL "Kool 106" with an oldies format. By 2000, the station had shifted to a jamming oldies format. In September 2001, it flipped to CHR as "Q 106.1."

On March 25, 2003, during The Cosmo & JC Radio Show, KOQL broadcast a prank phone call to a gambling addiction hotline without informing the counselor that the conversation was being recorded for broadcast. This violated 47 C.F.R. § 73.1206|Section 73.1206 of the FCC rules.^[2] Mid-Missouri Broadcasting apologized on-air on April 4, 2003. The FCC issued a $4,000 fine the following year.

The station was owned by Mid-Missouri Broadcasting, Inc. at the time. The local cluster (including KOQL) later operated under the Premier Marketing Group name before being sold to Cumulus Media (Cumulus assumed operations March 1, 2004).

• Q 106.1 - Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 60731 (KOQL) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KOQL in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

38°45′00″N 92°33′32″W / 38.750°N 92.559°W / 38.750; -92.559