“Planet,” Dave and Darren Return to Quad Cities Area

Posted on by Jon Ellis

A radio moniker and a morning team are returning to the Quad Cities airwaves.

Virden Broadcasting’s KQCJ/93.9 (Cambridge, IL) dropped the “Jack FM” Variety Hits format on Wednesday in favor of Alternative as “Planet 93.9,” picking up the slogan that had been used by the former KORB/93.5 (Bettendorf, IA) in the late 1990’s.

The new format will reunite Dave Levora and Darren Pitra in morning drive.

Levora had been let go from another Quad Cities station as part of iHeartMedia budget cuts earlier this year. Levora writes on his new station’s website that station president Fletcher Ford gave him give the opportunity to build a radio station on his own terms.

“I told him I’d want to bring back the two brands I’d been a part of that I felt really resonated with listeners here in the Quad Cities. And the station would have to sound unlike anything else here or anywhere else,” Levora wrote.

KQCJ’s 4.2kW/120m (class A) signal provides good coverage to the eastern Quad Cities area.