WHHD

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WHHD
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City of license Clearwater, South Carolina
Broadcast area Augusta, Georgia & CSRA
Branding "HD98.3"
Slogan "Today's Hit Music"
Frequency 98.3 MHz (Also on HD Radio)
First air date April, 1987
Format CHR
ERP 11,500 Watts
HAAT 148 meters (486 feet)
Class C3
Facility ID 24148
Transmitter Coordinates 33° 30' 44" N, 82° 04' 48" W
Callsign meaning Hit music in HD radio
Owner Beasley Broadcast Group
Website HD983.com

WHHD (HD98.3) is a CHR station serving the the Augusta, Georgia metro area. They are owned by Beasley Broadcast Group Incorporated and is licensed by the FCC to Clearwater, South Carolina to broadcast at 98.3 FM with a ERP of 11.5 kw.

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[edit] Station History

98.3 signed on as WCNA in April, 1987 with an Easy Listening format. It became WSLT in 1993 with a Adult Contemporary format under the handle "Lite 98.3".

In February 2006, the station dropped the AC format and aired a loop of a brief snippet of Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc" (the laughing heard in the beginning and end of the song) nonstop for 24 hours. When the stunt ended, "HD-98.3" was born with a CHR format, filling the void left when the former WZNY flipped to Country as WIBL a little more than a year previous.

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Personalities include Kidd Kraddick in the Morning, Chuck Whitaker middays, Kris Fisher afternoons and Chad Bennett evenings. The station boasts being the Augusta area's first and only HD music channel. It also is the currently the ONLY CHR station in the area,

[edit] CHRs in Augusta

  • Early 1960s-1994 - WBBQ 104.3 FM "Q104.3"
  • 1990-1991 - WOPW 102.3 FM "Power 102"
  • 1994-2005 - WZNY 105.7 FM "Y105"
  • 1999-2003 - WAEG/WAEJ 92.3/100.9 FM "92.3 and 100.9, The Beat"
  • 2006-present - WHHD 98.3 FM HD "HD98.3"

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