City of license | Roanoke, Virginia |
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Broadcast area | New River Valley Southwest Virginia |
Branding | "Q99" |
Slogan | "The Best Mix of the 80s, 90s, and Today" |
Frequency | 99.1 MHz |
First air date | November 1, 1947[1] |
Format | Adult Contemporary |
Power | 200,000 Watts |
HAAT | 607 Meters |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 41112 |
Former callsigns | WSLS-FM (1947-1969) WSLQ (1969-present) |
Owner | Mel Wheeler, Inc. |
Sister stations | WFIR, WSLC-FM, WVBB, WVBE, WVBE-FM, WXLK |
Webcast | WSLQ Webstream |
Website | WSLQ Online |
WSLQ is an Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Roanoke, Virginia, serving the New River Valley and Southwest Virginia. WSLQ is owned and operated by Mel Wheeler, Inc.
WSLQ broadcasts in an all-Christmas music format from mid-November through Christmas day.
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WSLQ has the distinction of being one of the most powerful FM Radio stations licensed in the United States. The station broadcasts 200,000 watts of power, which is 100,000 watts over the legal limit. The station is allowed to do this by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) through a grandfathered license that dates from before the legal limit of 100 kW was implemented. The station is not the only station, however, that broadcasts above 100,000 watts, but does have the highest power limits of any of these stations. From the station's transmitter on Poor Mountain near Roanoke, the station is able to reach much of central and southwest Virginia, in addition to much of southern West Virginia, the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina and northwestern and north central North Carolina.
To the north in Virginia, WSLQ's fringe signal makes it far as the US Highway 33 corridor from West Virginia to Elkton under most atmospheric conditions. Typically, any further north or northeast of picking up WSLQ in most cases would experience a gradual signal loss due to declining line of sight from Poor Mountain and/or the increased interference from WLZL-FM out of Annapolis, Maryland. WLZL's transmitter is located near Bowie, Maryland in Tenleytown.
To the south and southeast in North Carolina, WSLQ's fringe singal makes it as far as the U.S. Highway 64 corridor from Lenoir, Caldwell County to Pittsboro under most atmospheric conditions. Typically, any further south or southeast of picking up WSLQ in most cases would experience a gradual signal loss due to declining line of sight from Poor Mountain and/or the increased interference from WZFX-FM out of Fayetteville. Without WZFX, it is likely that WSLQ's signal would penetrate even further south into the southern central piedmont and the eastern piedmont counties of North Carolina. WZFX's transmitter is located southeast of Fayetteville in northwest Bladen County.
To the east in North Carolina and Virginia, the fringe signal also makes it as far as the Interstate 85 corridor from Durham County north into Virginia to Dinwiddie County, near Petersburg. Typically, any further east of Interstate 85 in most cases will experience a gradual signal loss due to declining line of sight from Poor Mountain and/or the increased interference from WXGM-FM out of Gloucester. WXGM's transmitter is located near the corporate limits of Gloucester.
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