WIVQ

WIVQ
City Spring Valley, Illinois
Broadcast area La Salle-Peru, Illinois
Branding Q 103.3
Slogan "All the Hits"
Frequency 103.3 MHz
Format CHR (Top 40)
ERP 4,900 watts
HAAT 110 meters (360 feet)
Class A
Facility ID 28312
Transmitter coordinates 41°18′09″N 89°14′11″W / 41.30250°N 89.23639°W / 41.30250; -89.23639
Former callsigns WAIV[1]
Owner The Radio Group
(Mendota Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations WALS, WBZG, WGLC-FM, WSPL, WSTQ, WYYS
Website qhitmusic.com

WIVQ (103.3 FM, "Q 103.3") is a radio station licensed to serve Spring Valley, Illinois, USA, serving the La Salle-Peru area. The station is owned by The Radio Group and the broadcast license is held by Mendota Broadcasting, Inc.

WIVQ broadcasts a contemporary hit radio music format as a simulcast with sister station WSTQ.[2]

The station was assigned the WIVQ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 26, 2001.[1]

History

WIVQ FM 103.3 began life as Talk Radio 103.3 FM WAIV in April 1994 according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's call sign database. It carried a right-wing talk format. In the spring of 1997 the station was sold along with co-owned WLRZ (now WBZG) from Crest Broadcasting to "The Radio Group" also known as Mendota Broadcasting. In July 1997 the station switched from all-talk to Light AC using ABC radio's star station format. It kept the AC format until March 6, 2000, at 9 PM when it dropped Light AC for the current top forty simulcast with WSTQ FM.

References

  1. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.


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