WIQO-FM (100.9 FM) is a commercial

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licensed to Forest, Virginia, and serving the Lynchburg metropolitan area. It

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s a

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format with sister station 106.3 WMNA-FM in

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. They are owned and operated by Three Daughters Media. The

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is on North Business Mountain Road in Forest, Virginia.

Programming

Weekday mornings on WIQO-FM and WMNA-FM begin with a local wake up show hosted by Janet Rose, also shared with co-owned WGMN. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated talk programs: '' The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Tom Sullivan Show, The Lars Larson Show, CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor,

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, This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal'' and ''The Markley, Van Camp and Robbins Show''. Weekends feature shows on money, home repair, cars, guns and real estate. Syndicated hosts include Ben Ferguson, Rick Valdes, John Catsimatidis and '' Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb''. Most hours begin with an update from

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History

The station

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the air in . It originally had the

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WKEY-FM and was located in Covington, Virginia.Broadcasting Yearbook 1977
page C-218,

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It was the

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of WKEY 1340 AM and was owned by WKEY, Inc. In the early and mid-1970s, the station played

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music and was an

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of the ABC FM Network. In 1977, the station was moved to the more lucrative Lynchburg

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. It took the call letters WIQO-FM.

References

External links

100.9 WIQO Online
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