WDRQ
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| City | Detroit, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | Metro Detroit and Windsor, Ontario |
| Branding | Nash FM 93.1 |
| Slogan | "Detroit's Hottest Country Hits" |
| Frequency | 93.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) 93.1 HD-2: Nash Icons 93.1 HD2 Country music |
| First air date | July 9, 1947 (as WJBK-FM) |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 26,500 watts |
| HAAT | 204 meters (669 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 70040 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°28′16″N 83°12′3″W / 42.47111°N 83.20083°W |
| Callsign meaning | W Detroit (branding) RadioQ (format) |
| Former callsigns | WLTI (4/15/85-8/10/96) WDRQ-FM (6/25/80-4/15/85) WDRQ (1972-6/25/80) WDEE-FM (1970-1972) WJBK-FM (1947-1970) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holdings LLC) |
| Sister stations | WDVD, WJR |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website |
nashfm931.com 931nashicon.com (HD2) |
WDRQ is an FM radio station in Detroit, Michigan broadcasting a country format as "Nash FM 93-1". The station is one of two country music stations in Detroit, the other being WYCD. WDRQ broadcasts from the Fisher Building just north of downtown Detroit and transmits its signal from an antenna 669 feet in height located at the intersection of 10 Mile and Greenfield Roads in suburban Oak Park. The station is owned by Cumulus Media.
Storer Broadcasting signed on WJBK-FM in the summer of 1947. The station initially broadcast only six hours per day but implemented 24-hour operations in October 1947. From 1947 to 1966, WJBK-FM programming was strict 100% duplication of the AM side, and the FM side continued to simulcast through several programming changes. WJBK-AM was Detroit's first top 40 station, playing hit music from 1956 to 1964. After 1964 WJBK-FM fully and then partially simulcast the AM's new easy listening and then MOR format, and its brief return to Top 40 in 1969. Starting in 1966, WJBK-FM began to introduce separate stereo programming for about 50% of the broadcast day, due to new FCC rules which restricted FM/AM simulcasting.
In late 1969, WJBK-AM/FM became WDEE-AM & FM ("The Big D") and implemented a country format with a Top 40-style presentation. The AM side quickly returned to high ratings; however, WDEE-FM remained virtually invisible. According to a Billboard magazine article in February 1970, WDEE-FM was on the air from 6am to midnight, duplicating the AM programming from 5pm to midnight and during the day airing separate stereo country programming syndicated by Bellingham, WA-based International Good Music.
In 1971, WDEE-FM was sold to Bartell Broadcasting, changed its calls to WDRQ-FM, and became Detroit's first FM talk radio station. As a stunt to draw attention to the new station and about-to-be launched format, the station ran a weekend-long documentary, The History of Detroit Radio, covering the then-current and past scene of Detroit radio (with special emphasis given to rock and roll stations) put together by longtime radio enthusiast and former Oakland Press radio columnist Arthur R. Vuolo, Jr.
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