WLQH (940 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

broadcasting a classic country format, licensed to

Chiefland, Florida Chiefland is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,316 at the 2020 census, up from 2,245 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. History A village of the Timucua ...

. WLQH debuted June 6, 1968, as a 500-watt, daytime-only facility, originally owned by White Construction Company of Chiefland and broadcasting country music during the morning and early afternoon hours and Top 40 during afternoon drive time. Luther White was the station's president, C. Wesley Ward served as general manager and news director, and Ruth M. Ward was the station's program director, while Billy Mayo was the Top 40 announcer and program director. The station is currently owned by Suncoast Broadcasting. In 2014 WLQH entered into a simulcast with

WZCC WZCC (1240 AM) is a commercial classic country radio station in Cross City, Florida, broadcasting to the Tri-County area of Dixie, Levy, and Gilchrist counties. In 2007 the station was sold to WRGO RADIO, LLC. In February 2010 the station ...

AM 1240 in Cross City and its FM translator W227AV 93.3 MHz in

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, which serves an area between Chiefland and Fanning Springs. Though authorized to broadcast at 15 watts at night, WLQH is still licensed as a Class D (Daytime) station, to protect Class-A clear-channel station

XEQ-AM XEQ-AM (940 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Mexico City. The concession is held by Cadena Radiodifusora Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. and is operated by Radiópolis. It airs a Spanish-language adult hits radio format known as "La Q 940." ...

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, as well as a vacant allocation in

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, Canada.

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