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DEFINITELY BUT NOW LET’S SAY GOOD MORNING TO OUR FIRST LIVE GUEST. YES. Q IS HOME TO THE SECOND LONGEST RUNNING ALIVE RADIO BROADCAST IN THE COUNTRY AND THEY’RE BASED IN MOUNT AIRY. WELL, THIS ...

Radio station WPAQ, aka The Voice of the Blue Ridge, went live on Groundhog Day in 1948, and three quarters of a century later continues the vision of founder Ralph Epperson to be “your home for ...

This is evident with a 74th birthday celebration being observed this week and also the entity it is honoring — radio station WPAQ in Mount Airy — which will include a free concert this ...

In the 1930s he left behind the tobacco fields near Mount Airy for college where he studied radio technology before returning to build that area's first radio station, WPAQ, in 1948. It continues ...

Few things are unchanged after 72 years — one notable exception is radio station WPAQ in Mount Airy, which still plays traditional mountain music as it did when first hitting the airwaves on Feb ...

For the past 70 years, WPAQ out of Mount Airy, North Carolina — population 10,000 — has broadcast bluegrass and old-time string music. But music isn’t all you’ll hear on WPAQ. "If folks ...

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