It “felt like a time warp to drive through that sound cloud in the ETX Piney Woods.” 93.1 Da Pa’ina - Hawaii Instagrammer carlamowell votes 99.9 KMOO in Texas. Most of the time the people whose names were announced would have died a day or two before.” The whole purpose was to give listeners information on when the body was reposing at the home, or when the funeral would happen for example. At the end of the names, she would always say in Irish, “ Ar a dheis siad go raibh siad”. They were read out daily at 10am, 2pm, and 6pm by an old woman called Nelly. “”The obituaries” were played on Midlands 103 in Tullamore, Co. Matador staff writer Morgane Croissant tells of when she lived in Tullamore, Ireland, how during her Sunday breakfast, a mournful voice on Midlands 103 would read off the names of the recently deceased: The “random tagline of “Very Normal People” always makes us laugh!” Midlands 103 - Tullamore, Ireland

Melissa Conway votes for RTL 102.5, a contemporary hits station in Italy. “Not far from home for me, but our all-time favorite station.” RTL 102.5 - Italy On Instagram, katnipp_ontheroadagain suggests Austin’s KLBJ 93.7, a rock station. Set the tone when I tuned in as I drove for the first time from Honolulu to the North Shore.” KLBJ 93.7 - Texas “Incredible aloha just flowing from this station. According to PD Rick Thomas, 'Pa’ina’s mission to is to have fun and play the reggae and island jams people really want to hear.' With this move, KQMQ will face competition from two other Hawaiian Contemporary outlets that also feature Reggae music in their presentation, KDNN and KCCN.Matador’s own David Miller discovered the University of Hawaii-Manoa’s non-commercial alternative radio station KTUH on his first trip to Hawaii. February 6 was also Marley's birthday, which made this flip more interesting. This was preceded by what proved to be a decoy media release that the new format would be Traditional Hawaiian 'Nā Mele 93.1,' a brand that is used at parent company Ohana Broadcasting's other outlets in Hawaii. In 2005 they would return to Mainstream Top 40 with a Modern AC lean as '93.1 The Zone.' During their tenure its listenership was 3.9 percent of Hawaii's listeners.On February 4, 2011, KQMQ dropped their Top 40/CHR format and began stunting with all-Bob Marley music during the weekend until February 7, 2011, when it flipped to a format that consists of Reggae and Contemporary Hawaiian music, billing it as '93.1 Da Pā'ina.' The move to a Reggae-based format make this the second of its kind in the United States. In 2000 it would switch to an All-80s & 90s format, as their format would move over to sister station KDDB. It was the first station in Hawaii to include local contemporary music in its regular play list, thus giving exposure to groups like Kalapana, Cecilio and Kapono, and Keola and Kapono BeamerBy the 1980s it inherited the Top 40 format from KKUA and would continue it into the 1990s.

Among the other DJs were Ron Wood, Bob Cole, Noel Grey. Gene Davis was Program Director, Lee Abrams was consultant. The programming is led by local radio vet Rick Thomas.HistoryThe station, which signed on the air on October 1, 1967, originally was an AOR outlet in its early days after it was acquired from Cec Heftel and began broadcasting 'Album cut' music around 1976. It offers a proprietary blend of Hawaiian/Island Reggae and traditional Reggae music format branded as '93.1 Da Pā'ina'. The station also transmits on Oceanic Time Warner Cable digital channel 868 for the entire state of Hawaii. The Ohana Broadcast Company, LLC outlet broadcasts at 93.1 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW. Description: KQMQ-FM is a radio station based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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