WHDQ

WHDQ

City of license	Claremont, New Hampshire
Broadcast area	Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area
Branding	Q106
Slogan	"The Valley's Best Rock"
Frequency	106.1 MHz
Repeaters	106.1 WHDQ-1 (Rutland) 106.5 W293AB (Keene) 106.7 W294AB (Hanover)
Format	Classic rock
ERP	1,600 watts
HAAT	685 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	17798
Transmitter coordinates	43°26′15.00″N 72°27′8.00″W
Callsign meaning	Northern New England's Music HeaDQuarters
Former callsigns	WTSV-FM (1948-?) WECM (?-1985)
Owner	Nassau Broadcasting, LLC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	theqrocks.com

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 Nassau Broadcasting, LLC. 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.

Personalities

• Imus In The Morning
• Jen Wylde
• Kelly Hughs
• Gregg Parrotto
• Ken "The Webmaster" Webbley
• Traci Fulton
• Chris Picard
• Griffin Wert
• Art Steinberg

Past personnel

• "Sunny" Joe Allen (now on WKNE weekdays from 3-7PM eastern time)
• Scott Antonivich (now hosting the weekday 5:30-10 AM shift on WKKN as "Parker Springfield")
• Dave Ashton
• Ken Barlow
• Big Joe
• Ted Bilodeau
• Bob Cady
• Dave Cooper
• 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

Translators

WHDQ also broadcasts on the following translators:

Call sign	MHz	City of license	Power (W)	Class	Additional Information
WHDQ-FM1	106.1	[[Rutland, Vermont]]	13	D	FCC
W293AB	106.5	Keene, New Hampshire	5	D	FCC
W294AB	106.7	Hanover, New Hampshire	14	D	FCC

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WHDQ
• Radio-Locator information on WHDQ
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WHDQ