City | Vilvoorde |
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Broadcast area | Belgium (Flanders) |
Slogan |
You make us Q (2015–present) Q is good for you (2001-2015) |
Frequency |
Limburg FM 102.5 MHz Antwerp FM 99.2 MHz Flemish Brabant FM 103.1 MHz West Flanders FM 103.0 MHz East Flanders FM 88.6 MHz |
First air date | November 12, 2001 |
Format | Pop music |
Owner | Medialaan |
Sister stations | Joe FM |
Webcast |
Webstream Webcam Playlist |
Website | www.qmusic.be |
Qmusic (formerly Q-music) is a Flemish commercial radio station of media company Medialaan. In 2016, Qmusic is the biggest commercial radio station and the third largest radio station in Flanders. According to the latest listening figures from the Centrum voor Informatie over de Media (English: Centre for Information on the Media), the station achieves on a daily basis an average market share of 12.95%.
The station plays particularly popular music. Since February 20, 2012, all activities are filmed in the radio studio and broadcast live via the website, a private TV channel on Telenet Digital TV and a mobile application for the smartphone.
On November 12, 2001 Q-music went nationwide in the ether at 6am. Two months earlier, the broadcaster with 4fm (now JOE fm) recognized as a national commercial radio by the Flemish Community. To radio to gain experience, VMMa (now called Medialaan) worked until 2003 along with local radio stations for TopRadio and Radio Mango.
The first broadcast on Q-music was the Deckers en Ornelis Ochtendshow with Erwin Deckers and Sven Ornelis, a program that previously ran on the former competing radio station Radio Donna. The program was very popular and there was after the switch from Deckers Ornelis be the strongman of Q-music, which worked. Until the summer of 2015 Sven Ornelis continued to present the same morning block, albeit with a different co-presenter after Deckers in 2008 chose a function behind the scenes. From autumn 2008 to spring 2014 Ornelis formed a duo with Kürt Rogiers, Rogiers was succeeded in late 2014 by Maarten Vancoillie.
In the spring of 2006, Q-music Wim Oosterlinck moved to the former strongman competitor Studio Brussel. Oosterlinck had since on Q-music for 9 years the fixed presenter during the evening rush.