WNKT

WNKT

St. George, South Carolina
Broadcast area	Charleston and South Carolina Lowcountry
Frequency	107.5 FM
Branding	"Cat Country 107.5"
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	Citadel Broadcasting
Sister stations	WNKT, WSSX, WSUY, WTMA, WWWZ
History
First air date	January 5th, 1971
Call sign meaning	"W"e're "N"ew "K"a"T"
Technical information
Class	C
ERP	100,000 watts
Links
Website	http://www.catcountry1075.com/

Cat Country (WNKT) 107.5 FM is a Charleston, South Carolina radio station which plays country music and airs the John Boy and Billy morning show.

Station History

107.5 signed on January 5th, 1971 as WDWQ, the sister to AM WQIZ in St. George. The FM station was sold in 1977 to a Washington, DC group that moved the studios to North Charleston and flipped the station to Top 40 as "Q107" under the WKQB call-sign. The "Q107" moniker was briefly dropped in 1984 for "Power 107" but Q107 was reclaimed one year later. Q107 eventually became #1 in the ratings on several occasions in the later half in the 1980s under a Dance-leaning CHR format.

Q107 gained fame in September, 1989 as it broadcasted continuously during Hurricane Hugo's landfall in the Charleston area. The broadcast ended when the eye wall of the storm made landfall and station personal was evacuated. The station returned to the air after the storm passed and broadcasted vital information to area residents for weeks afterwards.

Unfortunately, Q107 entered the 1990s under serious hardship. The station shut down in early 1991 and simulcasted for a brief time with WSUY in order to stay on the air. WKQB was eventually sold in 1991 to a new owner, which took the station Country under the call-letters of WBUB as "Bubba 107.5" in the Spring of 1991.

in 1997, the station was sold to new ownership as the station dropped the "Bubba 107.5" handle for "Cat Country 107.5" under the WNKT call letters.

The station is owned by Citadel Broadcasting.

107.5 has a construction permit to move to Eastover SC to serve Columbia & Sumter and leave the Charleston radio market.

External links

• Official Website
• ‹The template FMQ is being considered for deletion.› WNKT in the FCC FM station database
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