WLQB

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WLQB
City of license Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
Slogan La Que Buena
Frequency 93.5 MHz
Format Regional Mexican
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 100.0 meters
Class A
Facility ID 3122
Transmitter Coordinates 33°55′37.00″N 78°23′48.00″W / 33.9269444, -78.3966667
Affiliations ABC Radio
Owner Qantum of Myrtle Beach License Company, LLC

WLQB (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format.[1] Licensed to Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, USA. The station is currently owned by Qantum of Myrtle Beach License Company, LLC and features programing from ABC Radio .[2]


[edit] History

The call letters WDZD were formerly used by WLTT (now WBNE) when that station was at 93.5 FM.

In January 1999, "hyperactive rock" radio station "93.5 Asylum" signed on in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Darren Taylor, assistant program director and afternoon DJ, said that in addition to Metallica, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, the station would play bands that did not get a lot of radio airplay, such as Static X, Rage Against the Machine, Godsmack, and Kid Rock.[3]

Because the signal could not be heard throughout the Myrtle Beach market (though Wilmington listeners could hear it), this station did not perform well. WDZD was changed to Memories from ABC Radio Networks, a soft oldies satellite format, in 2000, and the name became "Lite 2000"[4].

Several years later, WDZD began airing the country music heard on WGTR, but the stations went their separate ways in 2005.

[edit] References

  1. ^ WLQB Facility Record. United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ^ Station Information Profile. Arbitron.
  3. ^ Rick D'Anjolell, "Scene 'N' Heard / Southern Culture on the Skids at Bessie's; New Radio Station Jazzes Up Wilmington's Airwaves," Star-News, December 9, 1999.
  4. ^ Steve Wildsmith, "Lovers of Hard Music Lose Radio Asylum", The Sun News, June 2,2000

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