WHDQ
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| City of license | Claremont, New Hampshire |
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| Broadcast area | Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area |
| Branding | Q106 |
| Slogan | "The Valley's Best Rock" |
| Frequency | 106.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 106.5 W293AB (Keene) 106.7 W294AB (Hanover, relays HD2) |
| Repeaters | 106.1 WHDQ-FM1 (Rutland) |
| First air date | 1948 |
| Format | Classic rock HD2: AAA "106.7 The River" |
| ERP | 1,600 watts |
| HAAT | 685 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 17798 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Callsign meaning | Northern New England's Music HeaDQuarters |
| Former callsigns | WTSV-FM (1948–1972) WECM (1972–1985) |
| Owner | Great Eastern Radio, LLC |
| Sister stations | WFYX, WGXL, WWOD, WTSL, WTSV, WXXK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | theqrocks.com river1067.com (HD2) |
WHDQ (106.1 FM, "Q106") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Claremont, New Hampshire, USA, the station serves the Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area. The station is currently owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio.[1] The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Ascutney in Vermont. WHDQ's signal is also broadcast over two translators—W293AB (106.5 FM) in Keene, New Hampshire and W294AB (106.7 FM) in Hanover, New Hampshire—and a booster—WHDQ-1 in Rutland, Vermont
Q106 has arguably one of the richest and most colorful histories of any radio station in northern New England. What originally started out as a top-40 powerhouse in the mid 1980s to late 1992 evolved into a rock and roll powerhouse going forward after that. Q106 was one of the first radio stations to carry the Imus in the Morning show, and one of the first stations to reinstate the show upon Imus' return to the airwaves in December 2007.
Q106 also has the honor of being the first FM station in New Hampshire to sign on the air as WTSV-FM at 102.1 in 1948.
WHDQ, along with 29 other stations in northern New England formerly owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Carlisle Capital Corporation, a company controlled by Bill Binnie (owner of WBIN-TV in Derry), on May 22, 2012. The station, and 12 of the other stations, were then acquired by Vertical Capital Partners, controlled by Jeff Shapiro.[2][3] The deal was completed on November 30, 2012.[4] The Vertical Capital Partners stations were transferred to Shapiro's existing Great Eastern Radio group on January 1, 2013.[5][6]
Personalities
- Greg and The Morning Buzz
- House
- Elise Valentine
- Traci Fulton
- Gregg Parrotto
Past personnel
- Bev Porter
- Bryan Gordon
- Scott Antonivich (now hosting the weekday 5:30-10 AM shift on WKKN as "Parker Springfield")
- Dave Ashton
- Stevens Blanchard
- Ken Webbley
- Ken Barlow
- Big Joe
- Ted Bilodeau
- Bob Cady
- Dave Cooper
- Rick Ross
- Doug Daniels
- Guy Dark
- Leif Erickson
- Free Beer and Hot Wings
- Tom Hoyt
- Kristy
- Peg Jett
- Dru Johnson
- Don Matsen
- Ross Michaels
- Chris Mitchell
- Lisa Peakes
- Jason Place
- Rob Riley
- Brian Ryea
- Sharon Steele
- Wally Wilcox
- Chris Picard
- Griffin Wert
- Art Steinberg
- Bruce Zeman
Translators and booster
WHDQ also broadcasts on the following translators and booster:
| Call sign | Frequency (MHz) |
City of license | ERP W |
Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHDQ-FM1 booster | 106.1 | Rutland, Vermont | 13 | D | booster FCC |
| W293AB | 106.5 | Keene, New Hampshire | 5 | D | FCC |
| W294AB | 106.7 | Hanover, New Hampshire | 14 | D | FCC |
W294AB relays WHDQ-HD2.
References
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