WOKQ
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| City of license | WOKQ: Dover, New Hampshire WPKQ: North Conway, New Hampshire |
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| Broadcast area | Northern New England & North Of Boston |
| Branding | The Big 97-5 WOKQ |
| Slogan | New England's Best Country |
| Frequency | WOKQ: 97.5 MHz W250AB: 97.9 MHz WPKQ: 103.7 MHz |
| First air date | August 1970 |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | WOKQ: 50,000 watts W250AB: 250 watts WPKQ: 21,500 watts |
| HAAT | WOKQ: 150 meters W250AB: 34 meters WPKQ: 1181 meters |
| Class | WOKQ: B W250AB: D WPKQ: C |
| Facility ID | WOKQ: 22887 WPKQ: 48401 |
| Owner | Cumulus Media |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wokq.com |
WOKQ is an FM radio station broadcasting on 97.5 MHz. It has a country music format.
The transmitter is located in Barrington, New Hampshire with the station's city of license being Dover, New Hampshire. The studios are located in Dover. WOKQ also operates a simulcast on WPKQ 103.7 (with separate commercials), with the transmitter located atop Mount Washington and licensed to North Conway, New Hampshire, and W250AB on 97.9, a translator in Manchester. It brands itself as "The Big 97.5". Due to its Emergency Alert System responsibilities, WOKQ is staffed at all times.
WOKQ and WPKQ are owned by Cumulus Media, which also operates a classic rock-format simulcast on WSAK 102.1 and WSHK 105.3 out of the same studio facility.
Its broadcasts can be heard as far south as Cape Cod on clear days. The protected range of its signal reaches five states and two countries.
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Stations individually [edit]
WOKQ [edit]
WOKQ was put on the air in August 1970[1] by Eastminster Broadcasting Company under the call letters WDNH.[2] Its country format was in place by 1972.[3] Eastminster sold WDNH to Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting in 1977, at which point it became WOKQ.[1] Fuller-Jeffrey was sold to Citadel Broadcasting in 1999.[4] Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.[5]
WPKQ [edit]
The 103.7 frequency now occupied by WPKQ began in March 1952[1] as WMOU-FM, the FM sister station to WMOU (1230) in Berlin.[6] The stations became WKCB and WKCQ in 1957,[7] but returned to their original callsigns two years later.[8] WMOU-FM separated from the simulcast of WMOU in 1972 and became WXLQ-FM, airing a rock and oldies format.[3] This evolved to a mix of top 40 and oldies in 1975.[9] The station reverted back to the WMOU simulcast in 1977 (but retained the WXLQ call letters);[10] however, renewals for the stations' licenses were denied by the FCC the prior year due to having engaged in fraudulent billing practices, and an appeal was lost in 1979.[11]
A construction permit for a new 103.7, using WXLQ's former transmitter, was granted on August 8, 1983[12] and revived the WMOU call letters (without the "-FM" suffix),[13] with a license to cover issued on March 15, 1984.[14] The station moved its transmitter to Mount Washington in 1990 and became WZPK. At one time a hot AC station (branded as "Peak FM"), 103.7 adopted its present callsign and format upon its sale to Fuller-Jeffrey in 1996.[15][16] The city of license was changed to North Conway in 1999.[17]
During football season, WPKQ breaks from the simulcast to broadcast New England Patriots games.
W250AB [edit]
| Call sign | Frequency MHz |
City of license | Power W |
FCC info |
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| W250AB | 97.9 | Manchester, New Hampshire | 250 | FCC |
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Broadcasting Yearbook 1981 (PDF). 1981. p. C-146. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1972 (PDF). 1972. p. B-130. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ a b Broadcasting Yearbook 1973 (PDF). 1973. pp. B–124–5. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (April 30, 1999). "Fuller-Jeffrey Sells Out". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ "Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting". Atlanta Business Journal. September 16, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1953 (PDF). 1953. p. 187. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1958 (PDF). 1958. p. A-320. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1960 (PDF). 1960. p. A-185. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1976 (PDF). 1976. p. C-123. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1978 (PDF). 1978. p. C-135. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ "598 F2d 274 White Mountain Broadcasting Co Inc v. Federal Communications Commission". OpenJurist. April 9, 1979. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ "Application Search Details (1)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ "Call Sign History (WPKQ)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ "Application Search Details (2)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (October 11, 1996). "WAAF (back) on the tube". New England RadioWatch. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (November 7, 1996). "Big Doings in Maine". New England RadioWatch. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (October 15, 1999). "The All New All New WMEX??". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
External links [edit]
- WOKQ website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WOKQ
- Radio-Locator information on WOKQ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WOKQ
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WPKQ
- Radio-Locator information on WPKQ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WPKQ
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