Owned by Rubber City Radio Group, Inc., the station primarily serves the Akron metro area, but also can be heard in Greater Cleveland and Canton.
[4] The station had a quiet sign-on, with no stories or coverage in area newspapers until a mention within an appliance store advertisement in the Orrville Courier Crescent that December 15.
Ted Niarhos sold WDBN to Robert Miller and associated investors in 1968 for $1 million, the highest price ever paid for an FM station at a time.
The station was sold to Gordon-Thomas Communications, Inc.—headed by Gordon Steinbeck and Thom Mandel—for $4.6 million in March 1988, the deal closed that June 2nd.
Gordon-Thomas Communications changed its name to Rubber City Radio Group on December 6, 1993, the same day that it purchased WAKR and WONE-FM.
[21] All programming on WQMX is local in origin, featuring a full 24 hour airstaff on weekends, including Northeast Ohio radio veterans J-Dub, Sandy Bennett and Rick Allen.
Weekday personalities include Scott Wynn and Sarah Kay mornings, Cherise on middays, Ben McKee on afternoon drive, Eric Matthews on evenings and Joe Headley on overnights.