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{{Infobox radio station
| name             = WQEZ
| logo             = [[Image:WQEZ EZ99.9fm logo.png|200px]]
| city             = [[Fort Campbell, Kentucky]]
| area             = [[Clarksville, Tennessee]]–[[Hopkinsville, Kentucky]]
| branding         = ''EZ 99.9''
| frequency        = 1370 [[kHz]]
| translator       = {{Radio Relay|99.9|W260DH|Fort Campbell}}
| airdate          = {{start date and age|1963}}<ref name="nash">{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Francis M.|date=1995|title=Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State|publisher=HOST Communications|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/History/Towers-Over-Kentucky-Nash-1995.pdf|via=World Radio History|isbn=9781879688933}}</ref>
| format           = [[Soft adult contemporary]]
| power            = {{ubl|1,000 [[watt]]s (day)|53 watts (night)}}
| class            = D
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| facility_id      = 61260
| coordinates      = {{coord|36|38|28|N|87|26|1|W|region:US_type:city}}
| callsign_meaning = "EZ" (branding)
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WABD (1963–2001)|WJMR (2001–2003)|WKFN (2003–2005)|WJQI (2005–2009)|WEGI (2009–2013)|WRND (2013–2018)}}
| affiliations     =
| owner            = Saga Communications
| licensee         = Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC
| sister_stations  = [[WCVQ]], [[WKFN]], [[WNZE]], [[WRND]], [[WVVR]], [[WZZP]]
| webcast          = [https://player.amperwave.net/11960 Listen Live]
| website          = [https://myez999.com myez999.com]
}}

'''WQEZ''' (1370 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) is a [[radio station]]  broadcasting a [[soft adult contemporary]] format. Licensed to [[Fort Campbell, Kentucky]], United States, the station serves the [[Clarksville, Tennessee|Clarksville]]–[[Hopkinsville, Kentucky|Hopkinsville area]]. The station is owned by Saga Communications through licensee Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC, and operates as part of its Five Star Media Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WRND |title=WRND Facility Record |work=United States [[Federal Communications Commission]], audio division }}</ref>  Its tower and transmitter located on Stateline Road in Oak Grove, Kentucky immediately outside the main gates of the Ft. Campbell, Kentucky military installation.

==History==
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The station went on the air as WABD in 1963 broadcasting a top-40 station appealing to soldiers and their families at the [[Fort Campbell]] Military Reservation. Leo Wilson of Hopkinsville helped build the station and Gary L. Latham was president and general manager.  In addition to Latham, Shelby McCallum and then-Kentucky Governor [[Ned Breathitt]] were partners in the station, whose call letters stood for "Airborne Division", in honor of the [[101st Airborne Division]] at the military base. The station launched WABD-FM (now [[WCVQ]]) in 1968. In the late 1970s, album rock moved to WABD-FM and the AM became [[oldies]].{{r|nash|pages=91, 92}}

In 1986, the stations were sold to Southern Broadcasting of Clarksville, Tennessee, with Tom Cassetty, president and general manager.  WABD-FM changed call letters to WCVQ-FM; that station became gold-based [[adult contemporary]] sound, while WABD took the [[Urban radio|urban format]].{{r|nash|page=92}}

Southern sold the stations to Saga Communications, Inc., the current owner and operator. 

Today the station's studios and offices are located in Clarksville, Tennessee co-located with [[WVVR]], WCVQ, [[WKFN]], [[WZZP-FM]], and [[WRND-FM]], a cluster of stations known as the 5 Star Radio Group owned by Saga Communications, Inc.

The station changed its format to all country gospel music on January 1, 2008.

On April 15, 2009, Saga dropped the all country gospel music format to simulcast WEGI-FM "Eagle 94.3 Classic Hits" and changed the call letters to WEGI. 

On December 26, 2013, WEGI (along with WEGI-FM) shifted their format to variety hits, branded as "Rewind 94.3".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/netgnomes/87068/wegi-to-rewind-itself/|title = WEGI Rewinds Itself}}</ref> The stations changed their call signs to WRND and WRND-FM, respectively, on December 27, 2013.

On April 11, 2018, WRND split from its simulcast with [[WRND-FM]] and changed their format to soft adult contemporary, branded as "EZ 99.9" under new WQEZ calls. The 99.9 frequency in the branding is for FM translator W260DH 99.9 FM Fort Campbell.<ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/167740/saga-launches-ez-99-9-clarksville/ Saga Launches EZ 99.9 Clarksville] Radioinsight - April 11, 2018</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{AM station data|61260|WQEZ}}
* {{FCC-LMS-Facility|200007|W260DH}}
* {{FXL|W260DH}}

{{Clarksville-Hopkinsville Radio}}
{{Adult Contemporary Radio Stations in Kentucky}}
{{Saga Communications}}

[[Category:Radio stations in Kentucky|RND (AM)]]
[[Category:Radio stations established in 1968]]
[[Category:1968 establishments in Kentucky]]
[[Category:Soft adult contemporary radio stations in the United States]]


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