WDWQ

WDWQ

City	Terre Haute, Indiana
Broadcast area	Terre Haute, Indiana
Branding	Q102.7
Slogan	The Valley's #1 for New Country!
Frequency	102.7 MHz
First air date	1961 (as WPFR)
Format	Country
ERP	28,000 watts
HAAT	201 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	6334
Transmitter coordinates	39°20′13.00″N 87°28′0.00″W / 39.3369444°N 87.4666667°W / 39.3369444; -87.4666667Coordinates: 39°20′13.00″N 87°28′0.00″W / 39.3369444°N 87.4666667°W / 39.3369444; -87.4666667
Former callsigns	WPFR (1961-1983) WPFR-FM (1983-1991) WLEZ (1992-2003) WBOW-FM (2003-2012)^[1]
Owner	Duey E. Wright (Midwest Communications, Inc.)
Sister stations	WBOW, WDKE, WIBQ, WMGI, WPRS
Website	q1027.com

WDWQ (102.7 FM, "Q102.7") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Terre Haute, Indiana, it serves the Terre Haute metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 1961 under the call sign WPFR. The station is currently owned by Duey E. Wright through licensee Midwest Communications, Inc.^[2]

History

102.7 FM history

The station signed on in 1961 as WPFR. When its companion station AM 1300 now WIBQ adopted the WPFR-AM call sign on March 17, 1983, the call sign was changed to WPFR-FM with a Top 40/CHR format, under their nickname "WPFR, The All New Power 103". The company that owned WPFR and WPFR-AM went into bankruptcy and both stations went off the air in 1991. Bomar Broadcasting purchased the license for 102.7 FM in 1992 and changed the call sign to WLEZ on April 1, 1992. In September 1993, the station went back on the air with a beautiful music format after a new transmitter was constructed. By 1997, the format had shifted to a soft adult contemporary format which eventually was supplied by Jones Radio Network.

On May 12, 2003, the station was sold to Crossroads Communications. The call sign was changed to WBOW-FM on September 1, 2003, as "Light Rock B102-7," utilizing the legendary call sign that had been used on 1230 AM and 640 AM in the Terre Haute metropolitan area from 1927 until 2001 when 640 AM went dark. The legendary call sign was also picked up by sister station AM 1300 in 2002.^[3]

On July 1, 2012, WBOW-FM was sold by Crossroads Communications to Midwest Communications and changed its call letters to WDWQ and changed its format to Country, branded as "Q102.7."^[4] The sale of WDWQ and sister station WBOW was consummated on October 26, 2012, at a purchase price of $1.3 million.

WDWQ's facilities are located at 824 S. 3rd Street in Terre Haute, Indiana.

WBOW history

WBOW was the first radio station in Terre Haute, Indiana. It began in 1927 as WRPI, a service of then Rose Polytechnic Institute. In 1932, it split from the school, went commercial, and took the call letters WBOW, which stand for Banks of the Wabash. It had at least one other frequency before receiving its assignment of 1230 kHz. For years, WBOW was a full-service news and top-40 voice, and often the leading station, in the Terre Haute area. It was long affiliated with NBC radio. In the early days of its existence, entertainer Burl Ives was a staff announcer at this radio station. In its waning years, its music had changed to adult standards and became affiliated with the ABC Information network. In 1992, WBOW moved to 640 kHz to gain a better signal and wider coverage, but shortly thereafter the station's programming became delivered entirely via satellite.

WBOW changed hands several times through the years, and ultimately went dark when Mike Rice, president of owner Contemporary Media, Inc., was convicted of four counts of forcible sodomy, six counts of deviate sexual assault in the first degree, and two counts of deviate sexual assault in the second degree and subsequently lost licenses to all his stations for lack of candor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during an investigation.^[5]

References

External links

WDWQ Website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WDWQ

Radio-Locator information on WDWQ

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WDWQ

Radio stations in the Terre Haute, Indiana market

By FM frequency	88.5 89.7 90.7 91.3 91.9 92.7 93.3 93.7 95.1 95.9 97.3 98.5 99.9 100.7 102.7 104.3 104.9 105.5 105.9

By AM frequency	580 1130 1230 1440 1480

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.525

By callsign	KXI47 W217AS WAXI WBOW WCBH WCRT-FM WDKE WDWQ WFIU WFNB WFNF WHOJ WIBQ WILL WISU WMGI WMMC WPFR WPFR-FM WPRS WQTY WTHI-FM WWVR WXXR-LP WZIS-FM

Nearby radio markets Bloomington-Columbus Champaign Decatur Evansville Indianapolis Lafayette See also List of radio stations in Indiana

Country radio stations in the state of Indiana

By AM frequency	1330 1460 1550 1560

By FM frequency	92.9 93.3 93.5 94.3 95.3 95.5 95.7 95.9 95.9 95.9 96.1 96.7 96.7 96.9 97.1 98.1 98.5 99.3 99.9 100.1 100.3 100.5 100.9 100.9 101.5 101.7 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.7 103.9 105.1 105.1 105.3 105.3 105.5 105.5 105.7 106.3 106.5

By callsign	WARU-FM – Roann WAWC – Syracuse WBDC – Huntingburg WBKQ – Alexandria WBTU – Kendallville WBYT – Elkhart WCBK-FM – Martinsville WCDQ – Crawfordsville WCJC – Van Buren WCOE – La Porte WDKE – Seelyville WDWQ – Terre Haute WFLQ – French Lick WFMS – Fishers WHCC – Ellettsville WHZR – Royal Center WIFE-FM – Rushville WIVR – Kentland WJCP – North Vernon WKID – Vevay WKKG – Columbus WKLO – Hardinsburg WKOA – Lafayette WKZS – Covington WKUZ – Wabash WLFW – Chandler WLHK – Shelbyville WLJE – Valparaíso WMDH-FM – New Castle WMPI – Scottsburg WNDI – Sullivan WNDI-FM – Sullivan WPGW-FM – Portland WQHK-FM – Decatur WQKZ – Ferdinand WQLK – Richmond WRAY-FM – Princeton WRBI – Batesville WRIN – Rensselaer WSCH – Aurora WTHD – Lagrange WTHI-FM – Terre Haute WTRE – Greensburg WUZR – Bicknell WWBL – Washington WWKI – Kokomo WXKU-FM – Austin WYCM – Attica WYGB – Edinburgh

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Indiana

Midwest Communications

Indiana	Evansville WABX WIKY-FM WLFW WSTO Terre Haute WBOW WDKE WDWQ WIBQ WMGI WPRS

Michigan	Battle Creek WNWN-FM WTOU Coldwater WTVB Holland WHTC WYVN Kalamazoo WKZO WNWN WQLR WVFM WZOX Lansing WJXQ WLMI WQTX WWDK

Minnesota	Duluth KDAL KDAL-FM KDKE KTCO WDSM WDUL Hibbing KMFG WMFG WMFG-FM WNMT WTBX WUSZ

North Dakota	Fargo KFGO KMJO KOYY KRWK KVOX KVOX-FM

South Dakota	Sioux Falls KELO KELO-FM KELQ KQSF KRRO KTWB KWSN

Tennessee	Knoxville WDKW WIMZ-FM WJXB-FM Nashville WCJK WJXA WNFN

Wisconsin	Appleton WGEE WYDR Green Bay WDKF WIXX WNCY-FM WNFL WTAQ/WTAQ-FM Wausau WDEZ WIFC WOZZ WRIG WSAU WSAU-FM Sheboygan WBFM WHBL WHBZ WXER

Website mwcradio.com

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