WLQH
History
Thanks to Marc Tyll for this history
of WLQH.
In 1991, local rancher and highway road construction contractor
Luther White was granted was granted a construction permit
for WLQH-FM 97.3. With the addition of the FM, WLQH was now able to expand to
a 24 hour operation, providing country music, news, weather and other
information to Chiefland, Levy County and the surrounding area around the
clock. For eight years, between 1991 and 1999, WLQH-AM and WLQH-FM operated as
one station as a simulcast operation. However, due to stiff competition from
stations in Gainesville and Ocala, WLQH switched from mainstream country to
classic country, playing country favorites from the 60s, 70s, and early 80s.
In 1999, White decided to sell the station he had brought to the area and
owned for 31 years. Dix Communications, owner of WOGK-FM 93.7 and
WNDD-FM 95.5
Ocala, wanted WLQH-FM to extend coverage of its highly rated WIND-FM network
which consisted of stations WNDD-FM 95.5 Ocala and WNDT-FM 92.5 Gainesville.
With the addition of WLQH-FM, later becoming WNDN-FM, WIND FM was able to
create a three station tri-mulcast operation, covering the entire metro and
Total Survey Area. As WNDN-FM, the classic country was dropped from the FM in
favor of classic rock.
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