KWIQ-FM (100.5 FM) is a

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, United States, the station serves the Moses Lake area. The station is currently owned by

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History

The station went on the air as KFMT on 1968-07-17. On 1980-03-31, the station changed its call sign to the current KWIQ-FM. On August 20, 2013, KWIQ-FM moved from 100.3 MHz to 100.5 MHz and dropped power from 100,000 watts to 50,000 watts, although the license for these changes was not issued by the

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until September 10, 2013.

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* WIQ-FM Country radio stations in the United States Mass media in Grant County, Washington Radio stations established in 1978 Alpha Media radio stations {{Washington-radio-station-stub