[3] Well-known alumni of WQBC include Blues extraordinaire Willie Dixon, and his Jubilee Singers, Adrian Cronauer, the inspiration for Good Morning, Vietnam, and Woodie Assaf, the longest-serving weatherman in the United States, who began his broadcasting career at WQBC in the 1940s before moving to 620 WJDX (AM) in Jackson, Mississippi and working at its sister station, WLBT TV 3 from its sign-on in December 1953.
WQBC was first licensed on October 24, 1927 in Utica, Mississippi to I. R. Jones,[5] who built and first operated the station.
When Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules banned cross ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the same area, WQBC was sold to Frank Hollifield, then to Elizabeth Owens.
[2] WQBC was last owned by Costar Broadcast Group, a Chicago, Illinois, multi-media communications firm.
WQBC lost the lease on its tower site and went silent on March 12, 2010,[7] while the sale to Michael M. Davis was pending.