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July 2 – "Solid Gold Country," a country gold-formatted program, debuts by the United Stations Programming Network. The original format is a three-hour weekly program featuring interviews by a feature artist and song blocks covering various topics and a feature year. Host is Stan Martin, with
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format, which had been used by its previous owner under the previous call letters WZZC, which had been in place since 1978. The station continues its steady climb in the Quad-Cities Arbitron ratings and eventually becomes the market's top-rated
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as producer and country music journalist Tom Roland as lead writer. This original format will run 18 months, until being reformatted as a daily one-hour program.
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ends its weekly countdown show, hosted by 78-year-old Ruth Bennett, mother of the station's former morning host
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stations in the US. Z100 has competition in the format from 95.5
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January 3 – Following its sale to Sconnix Broadcasting,
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Index

List of years in radio
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1983
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