| City of license | Sandusky, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Sandusky Fremont, Fostoria, Port Clinton, Lake Erie Islands and Tifffin areas. |
| Slogan | "Faith with Frequency" |
| Frequency | 88.1 MHz |
| First air date | April 25,2011 |
| Format | Religious radio (Catholic) |
| ERP | 375 watts |
| HAAT | 102.4 meters (336 ft) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 172338 |
| Callsign meaning | We're Northwest Ohio's Catholics (reference to flagship WNOC) |
| Affiliations | EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network Ave Maria Radio Network |
| Owner | Our Lady of Guadalupe Radio Inc. (dba:Annunciation Rado) |
| Sister stations | WNOC(flagship station) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Official website |
WHRQ (88.1 FM) is a new radio station with a FCC issued construction permit for Sandusky, Ohio, USA airing catholic programming. The station serves the Sandusky and Port Clinton areas. The station began as a construction permit in start up phase in 2009 by Port Clinton Knights of Columbus Home Association.[1] The new licensee is Our Lady of Guadelupe Radio Inc (dba:Annunciation Radio). Annunciation Radio began as a weekly Sunday afternoon program on Toledo's daytime talk station, the former WTOD (now CSN International-owned WWYC) 1560 AM, which later moved to Cumulus-owned WLQR 1470 AM in Toledo, up until the time WNOC made its initial sign-on during the Feast of the Assumption on the weekend of August 14 and 15 of 2010. WHRQ is a sister station of WNOC 89.7 FM in Bowling Green, and serving the metropolitan Toledo area.
Upon its initial sign-on (which took place at 3:30pm on Monday April 25, 2011), WHRQ became the third Catholic station within the Toledo Diocese to begin broadcasting. WHRQ currently operates initially as a simulcast of WNOC,but local programming for the Port Clinton/Sandusky and northcoast areas are in the planning stages. Both WHRQ and WNOC air programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio.
WJTA 88.9 FM licensed to Glandorf and transmitting from Leipsic is owned by a separate entity that serves Findlay, Ottawa, Lima,Napoleon, Defiance and Paulding which compliments both the WNOC and WHRQ signals. Since all three stations carry nearly all of the EWTN radio schedule, EWTN programming is easily accessed on a car radio along the I-75, Ohio State Route 15 and U.S. Route 6 corridors in northwestern and north central Ohio by all three stations in their respective areas and frequencies.
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