WHDQ

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WHDQ

City of license	Claremont, New Hampshire
Broadcast area	Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area
Branding	Q106
Slogan	"The Valley's Best Rock"
Frequency	106.1 MHz
Repeaters	106.1 WHDQ-1 (Rutland) 106.5 W293AB (Keene) 106.7 W294AB (Hanover)
Format	Classic rock
ERP	1,600 watts
HAAT	685 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	17798
Transmitter coordinates	43°26′15.00″N 72°27′8.00″W / 43.4375000°N 72.4522222°W / 43.4375000; -72.4522222
Callsign meaning	Northern New England's Music HeaDQuarters
Former callsigns	WTSV-FM (1948–1972) WECM (1972–1985)
Owner	Great Eastern Radio, LLC
Sister stations	WFYX, WGXL, WWOD, WTSL, WTSV, WXXK
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	theqrocks.com

WHDQ (106.1 FM, "Q106") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Claremont, New Hampshire, USA, the station serves the Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area. The station is currently owned by Jeffrey Shapiro's Great Eastern Radio.^[1] The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Ascutney in Vermont. WHDQ's signal is also broadcast over two translators—W293AB (106.5 FM) in Keene, New Hampshire and W294AB (106.7 FM) in Hanover, New Hampshire—and a booster—WHDQ-1 in Rutland, Vermont

Q106 has arguably one of the richest and most colorful histories of any radio station in northern New England. What originally started out as a top-40 powerhouse in the mid 1980s to late 1992 evolved into a rock and roll powerhouse going forward after that. Q106 was one of the first radio stations to carry the Imus in the Morning show, and one of the first stations to reinstate the show upon Imus' return to the airwaves in December 2007.

Q106 also has the honor of being the first FM station in New Hampshire to sign on the air as WTSV-FM at 102.1 in 1948.

WHDQ, along with 29 other stations in northern New England formerly owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Carlisle Capital Corporation, a company controlled by Bill Binnie (owner of WBIN-TV in Derry), on May 22, 2012. The station, and 12 of the other stations, were then acquired by Vertical Capital Partners, controlled by Jeff Shapiro.^[2]^[3] The deal was completed on November 30, 2012.^[4] The Vertical Capital Partners stations were transferred to Shapiro's existing Great Eastern Radio group on January 1, 2013.^[5]^[6]

Personalities

Imus In The Morning
Brett Franklin
Stevens Blanchard
Kelly Hughes
Gregg Parrotto
Ken Webbley
Traci Fulton

Past personnel

"Sunny" Joe Allen (now on WKNE weekdays from 3-7PM eastern time)
Scott Antonivich (now hosting the weekday 5:30-10 AM shift on WKKN as "Parker Springfield")
Dave Ashton
Ken Barlow
Big Joe
Ted Bilodeau
Bob Cady
Dave Cooper
Doug Daniels
Guy Dark
Leif Erickson
Free Beer and Hot Wings
Tom Hoyt
Kristy
Peg Jett
Dru Johnson
Don Matsen
Ross Michaels
Chris Mitchell
Lisa Peakes
Jason Place
Rob Riley
Brian Ryea
Sharon Steele
Wally Wilcox
Chris Picard
Griffin Wert
Art Steinberg

Translators and booster

WHDQ also broadcasts on the following translators and booster:

Call sign	Frequency MHz	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
WHDQ-FM1 booster	106.1	Rutland, Vermont	13	D	booster FCC
W293AB	106.5	Keene, New Hampshire	5	D	FCC
W294AB	106.7	Hanover, New Hampshire	14	D	FCC

References

↑ "WHDQ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "Carlisle Capital Corp. Wins Bidding For Rest Of Nassau Stations". All Access. May 22, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
↑ Venta, Lance (May 22, 2012). "Nassau Broadcasting Auction Results". RadioInsight. Retrieved May 24, 2012. (updated May 23, 2012)
↑ Kitch, Michael (December 1, 2012). "Binnie closes on purchase of WLNH". Laconia Daily Sun. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
↑ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGN BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE OR TO TRANSFER CONTROL OF ENTITY HOLDING BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 11, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
↑ "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. January 4, 2013. Retrieved June 8, 2013.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHDQ

Radio-Locator information on WHDQ

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WHDQ

v t e Radio stations in the Lebanon, NH-Rutland, VT market

By AM frequency	1010 1230 1380 1400 1480 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.5 90.5 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.3 93.9 94.5 95.3 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.7 98.1 99.3 99.7 100.1 100.5 101.3 101.5 102.1 102.7 103.1 103.7 104.3 105.3 106.1 106.3 107.1

By callsign	WCNL WEQX WEXP WFRD WFTF WFYX WGLV WGXL WHDQ WIUV WJEN WJJR WKNE WLTN-FM WMTK WMVY WNCH WNTK-FM WOOL-LP WRJT WRVT WSNI WSYB WTSL WTSV WVPR WVTK WVXR WWOD WXLF WXXK WYKR-FM WZLF WZRT

Defunct radio stations	910/WNHV 970/WHWB 1340/WDCR 107.3/WXND-LP

Vermont radio markets Burlington Montpelier-Barre-St. Johnsbury Rutland-White River Junction Other Vermont radio regions Northeast Kingdom New Hampshire radio markets Concord (Lakes Region) Lebanon Manchester Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester Other New Hampshire radio regions Northern New Hampshire See also List of radio stations in Vermont List of radio stations in New Hampshire

v t e Classic rock radio stations in the state of New Hampshire

By frequency	96.5 97.1 103.7-2 104.9 106.1 1490

By callsign	WHDQ WKDR WKNE-HD2 WLKZ WMLL WOXX

By city	Bedford Berlin Claremont Colebrook Keene Wolfeboro

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New Hampshire See also active rock classic rock mainstream rock modern rock

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