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WQKR is a community-oriented “hometown” radio station in Portland, serving all of Northern Middle Tennessee and South Central Kentucky.

Our signal is clearly heard from Nashville to Bowling Green (north/south) and Springfield to Lafayette (east/west), and on 91.5 FM and 1270 AM. The people who listen to us are the people who are involved in the community, and want to keep up with what is happening in their hometown. The focus of our 24-hour broadcast day is on our live local shows: “Good Morning, Portland,” Monday through Friday f

rom 7:00 until 9:00 a.m. with Don Curry and Dale Sprouse and “The Women’s Roundtable” at 4:00 p.m. Everyone who wants to know what’s going on in the community listens to these programs. Because our area has only weekly newspapers, WQKR is the only daily source of local news for area residents. The music we play is a format called “Classic Hits,” and consists of the top hits from the music charts between 1965 and 1995. Pop and rock music that everyone 35 and over can recognize or remember, and younger listeners also enjoy. Because our primary goal is to serve the community, we have local news every hour along with national news, sports and a community events calendar, plus the “Traders Post” and area obituaries. As Portland’'s radio station, we are the voice of the Portland High School football and basketball Panthers, and broadcast their games and coaches’ shows throughout the year. All Panther games are also streamed live on the Internet on our website, www.wqkr.com. We are also the only radio station in Sumner County to broadcast University of Tennessee football and basketball games, the Indy 500 and Allstate 400, the Super Bowl, March Madness and much more. The residents of this area listen to our radio station because we give them news and programming they cannot get anywhere else---news about them, their friends and their family, and their community.

01/01/2023

Eric Long, also known as The Quilting Trucker, donated six hand made quilts to Hands of Hope before Christmas to draw attention to the food pantry and its efforts to

10/12/2022

Rep. William Lamberth is the 8:00 guest. Mayor Mike Callis stopped by to say hello. Also, this is the first day for our friend Mike Menefee to host.

09/24/2022

Carlos Lara was the 8 o’clock guest on The Big Show with Host Kevin Pomeroy.

09/23/2022

Chris Mullican stopped by The Big Show this morning.

09/08/2022

Director of Marketing John Wholihan and WQKR host of The Friday Big Show Kevin Pomeroy interview Gage Holmes, an apprentice jockey, at the live horse racing at Kentucky Downs. WQKR is doing a live remote until 3:00 pm today.

01/05/2022

Due to a family member testing positive for Covid, Good Morning, Portland will not be on the rest of this week. We appreciate our listeners and look forward to returning on air Monday, Jan. 10. Bonnie

12/07/2021

Tomorrow morning on Good Morning, Portland we will have Karen Cole with Hands of Hope at 7am and WWII Vet William Bradley at 8am.

Join Bonnie & Mark tomorrow morning for some fun and great conversation!

12/06/2021

Wake up tomorrow with Good Morning, Portland starting at 7am! Bonnie & Mark have a couple great guests lined up!

Join us in the morning!

12/03/2021

Jim Butler and Bonnie Fussell are under The Grinch's control as Jesse Burke, owner of Draper Buttercup finds it quite amusing.
Jesse and The Grinch showed up for a segment of Good Morning, Portland to announce their name change and Holiday Photo Opportunities for pictures with The Grinch.

12/03/2021

Our 7 o'clock guest was PHS Girl's Basketball Coach Steinbrecher. Unfortunately, he had to share the hour with The Grinch, who ran up the street from Draper Buttercup to try to take away Coach Steinbrecher, Larry Hinton (8 o'clock), Jim & Bonnie's Christmas spirit. BUT it didn't work. We wish you a Merry Christmas!!!

12/02/2021

At the 7 o'clock hour on Thursday, the 2nd, our guest was Portland High School Principal David Woods.

12/02/2021

We had a great interview this morning with County Mayor Anthony Holt. Portland Mayor Mike Callis dropped by and joined in the conversation.

Tomorrow we will have PHS Girl's Basketball Coach Scott Steinbrecher at the 7 o'clock hour and County Commissioner Larry Hinton at the 8 o'clock hour.

10/29/2021

Panthers Football LIVE from Henry County! Kickoff at 7!

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Address

100 Main Street, Suite 101
Portland, TN
37148

Telephone

+16153253250

Website

http://www.wqkr.com/

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Who We Are

WQKR has been Portland's radio station since 1980. For 39 years we have informed, entertained and served as the voice of our community under a number of different owners.

Our current ownership bought the station in 2004. Since that time we have gone from a daytime to a 24-hour station, increased the power and added an FM station to better serve all of the listeners in northern Middle Tennessee, serving not just Portland, but also White House, Westmoreland, Orlinda, Cross Plains, and parts of both Sumner and Robertson County in Tennessee and Franklin and Simpson County in Kentucky.

We are the people's radio station, and our primary goal is to serve the broadcast needs of everyone who lives and works in our coverage area. Bringing necessary information to all of our listeners, and telling their story to everyone else who needs to know what is happening in Portland and the surrounding area. We have two daily live local talk shows: “Good Morning, Portland” from 7:00-9:00 a.m. and “Portland P. M.” from 4:00-6:00 p.m., and five local talk shows every Saturday from 7:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The rest of each day we feature the best of rock and roll oldies, primarily from the 60’s and 70’s.