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WDJQ

City of license	Alliance, Ohio
Broadcast area	Canton, Ohio
Branding	Q92
Slogan	"Today's Hit Music"
Frequency	92.5 MHz
Format	CHR
ERP	50,000 watts
Facility ID	14914
Transmitter Coordinates	40°47′24.00″N 81°6′26.00″W / 40.79, -81.1072222
Callsign meaning	(husband and wife) Don and Josephine Peterson or: (son and daughter) Don Jr. and Jill Peterson^[1]
Former callsigns	WZKL (3/13/92-3/07/08) WDJQ (1/01/80-3/13/92) WFAH-FM (1947-1/01/80)
Owner	D.A. Peterson, Inc.
Website	http://www.q92radio.com

WDJQ (92.5 FM, "Q92") is a radio station in Alliance, Ohio, operating with a CHR format. It serves the Canton, Ohio radio market. WDJQ is owned by the family company of Don Peterson, the former publisher of the Alliance Review newspaper, and is co-owned with AM station WDPN.

[edit] History

The station originally signed on as WFAH-FM in 1947. One of the oldest established FM stations in the entire region, it served as the FM complement to WFAH (AM), the current WDPN. Both stations were founded by Arthur Hoiles, with the callsign being a tribute to his father, Frank Austin Hoiles (FAH). WFAH-FM switched to WDJQ on January 1, 1980; the calls selected because the names of the station owners began with the letters D and J (Don and Josephine (Hoiles) Peterson) as did their children (Don Jr. and Jill). The "Q" rhymed with the dial position 92, hence the "Q92" moniker.

WDJQ became WZKL on March 13, 1992. Under the WZKL call letters, the station played oldies as "Kool 92", then a "rock hits" format as "Z-92.5 - Today's Music For All People" in 2000. It once again became Top 40 as "Q-92" in 2002, although there was no "Q" in the station's call letters. Previous attempts to reclaim the WDJQ call letters were unsuccessful, but on February 29, 2008, it was announced that the radio station had successfully obtained the WDJQ call sign, which took effect March 7, 2008.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Radio Info article. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
^ Fybush, Scott. "This Week's Bloodbath: Citadel", NorthEast Radio Watch, 2008-03-03.

[edit] External links

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