WIQI

WIQI (95.9 FM) is a radio station in Watseka, Illinois that is owned by Smash Hit Media and is operated under a local marketing agreement. The station currently carries a classic hits format covering Watseka along with Iroquois County and Kankakee with an output of 6000 watts ERP.[1]

For the station in Chicago, Illinois on 101.1 FM that held the call sign WIQI from 2011 to 2014, see WKQX (FM).
WIQI
CityWatseka, Illinois
Broadcast areaIroquois County and Kankakee
Frequency95.9 MHz
BrandingClassic Hits 95.9 WIQI
Programming
FormatClassic hits
Ownership
OwnerSmash Hit Media, Inc.
History
First air dateFebruary 2008 (2008-02) (part-time, as WMLF)
June 23, 2015 (2015-06-23) (full-time)
Former call signsWMLF (2006-2011)
WWWN (7/4/2011-7/21/2011)
WKQX (2011-2014)
Call sign meaningCalls inherited from former sister company Merlin Media; formerly stood for IQI as a visual equivalent to "101" on Merlin's former station on 101.1 FM in Chicago
Technical information
Facility ID164237
ClassA
ERP6,000 watts
HAAT74 meters (243 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°49′22″N 87°44′54″W
Links
WebcastListen live
Websitewiqiradio.com

History

From 2011 until March 2015, the radio station used the WKQX call letters while the 101.1 frequency in the Chicago market that is best known for those call letters was itself known as WIQI. Both stations were owned by companies associated with radio executive Randy Michaels, at the time, and Radioactive, LLC was using a common practice in the radio industry to hold call letters in one market solely in order to prevent their use by a competitor in another. During this period, the station itself broadcast for only days at a time in each late winter in order to prevent the license from being revoked by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for inactivity. The station's original 14 meter HAAT 1000 watt signal was limited to Watseka. On January 16, 2014, its call letters changed from WKQX to WIQI with the return of the WKQX calls to 101.1 in Chicago.[2]

In March 2015, the station asked for a construction permit to widen the signal's coverage, mainly towards the Kankakee area; this was granted on April 15. On June 23, 2015, WIQI placed this facility on the air;[3] at that time, it began to broadcast full-time with daytime airstaff. This came shortly before the FCC began to disallow the abuse of license holding to keep a station silent on July 2, 2015.[4]

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gollark: You can just imagine that the boxes contain ¬☭ instead of ☭ in the same quantity.
gollark: Actually, what if one box contains 191 communism and the other contains only 18 communism?
gollark: Too bad, orbital box lasers inbound.
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References
  1. WIQI Facility Record, fcc.gov. Accessed August 12, 2015
  2. Call Sign History, fcc.gov. Accessed August 12, 2015
  3. "Resumption of Operations". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. July 15, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
  4. Sashkin, Davina (22 July 2015). "Audio Overkill: New AM and FM Licenses Conditioned on Continuous Operation". CommLaw Blog. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
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