WHHQ
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| City | Bridgeport, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | Saginaw-Bay City-Midland |
| Branding | Ave Maria Radio |
| Frequency | 1250 kHz |
| First air date | November 26, 1956 |
| Format | Religious; Catholic based talk/sermons; simulcast of WMAX Bay City |
| Power | 5,000 watts (Daytime) 1,100 watts (Nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 4600 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°20′31″N 83°53′57″W / 43.34194°N 83.89917°W |
| Former callsigns | WWBC (11/26/56-1962) WXOX (1962-11/1/83) WTCX (11/1/83-2/13/84) WXOX (2/13/84-8/23/96) WJZZ (8/23/96-2/1/97) WKNX (2/1/97-8/2/04) WNEM (8/2/04-6/18/13) |
| Owner | Ave Maria Communications |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.avemariaradio.net/ |
WHHQ (1250 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Catholic religious format, serving the Saginaw–Bay City area as a simulcast of WMAX (AM) in Bay City. Broadcasting from its transmitter in Bridgeport, Michigan, its city of license, it is currently owned by Ave Maria Communications. WHHQ broadcasts at a power of 5000 watts daytime, 1100 watts at night, directed towards the north.
WHHQ's history can be traced back as early as April 17, 1947, when the station first signed on the air as AM 1210 WKNX, owned by Lake Huron Broadcasting. The station was like many of its day, programming a full-service format of music, news, and talk. For many years, it was also a leading Top 40 hit music station in Saginaw, competing with WSAM (1400 AM) and Flint's WTAC (600 AM, now WSNL).
Among the station's history was the acquisition of a sister television station in the 1950s, and was also the radio home of 50's country music artist "Little" Jimmy Dickens. WKNX's resident "legend" would take form of University of Cincinnati graduate Robert Dyer, who joined the station in 1950 and remained a part of its staff for more than half a century.
In 1977, Lake Huron Broadcasting acquired an FM station in the Tampa Bay region of Florida -- WQYK-FM, a station that also carried a country format.
The following year, in 1978, WKNX underwent a major change when it was purchased by Radiocom Limited, a company headed by Robert Dana McVay. WKNX's city of license was immediately changed to Frankenmuth, and the station's studios and offices were moved to 306 West Genesee Avenue in Frankenmuth, where it was joined by a Tuscola-licensed sister FM station, WGMZ-FM (now WWBN), which programmed beautiful music. (The WGMZ calls and format moved from 107.9 FM, which became WCRZ "Cars 108" in 1984.) By the early 1990s, WKNX-AM was programming big band music and adult standards.
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