WHRQ

WHRQ

City	Sandusky, Ohio
Broadcast area	Sandusky Fremont, Fostoria, Port Clinton, Lake Erie Islands and Tifffin areas.
Branding	Annunciation Radio
Slogan	"Faith with Frequency"
Frequency	88.1 MHz
First air date	April 25, 2011
Format	Religious radio (Catholic)
ERP	380 watts
HAAT	102.4 meters (336 ft)
Class	A
Facility ID	172338
Transmitter coordinates	41°22′37.80″N 82°48′52.30″W / 41.3771667°N 82.8145278°W / 41.3771667; -82.8145278Coordinates: 41°22′37.80″N 82°48′52.30″W / 41.3771667°N 82.8145278°W / 41.3771667; -82.8145278
Affiliations	EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network Ave Maria Radio Network
Owner	Our Lady of Guadalupe Radio Inc. (dba:Annunciation Rado)
Sister stations	WNOC Bowling Green/Toledo (flagship station) WFOT Lexington/Mansfield WSHB Willard
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	Official website

WHRQ (88.1 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station in Sandusky, Ohio, USA airing Catholic programming. The station serves the Sandusky and Port Clinton areas as a repeater of originating sration WNOC 89.7 mHz licensed to Bowling Green and serving the Toledo area. The station began as a construction permit in start up phase in 2009 by Port Clinton Knights of Columbus Home Association.^[1] The new licensee is Our Lady of Guadelupe Radio Inc (dba:Annunciation Radio). WHRQ's transmitter is located near Castalia with its main WNOC studio and office located at 3662 Rugby Drive in Toledo.

WHRQ is the third full-time Catholic station in the Toledo Diocese and the second of Annunciation Radio's regional network.

Annunciation Radio began in 2006 as a venture by Toledo businessman and Deacon Michael Learned who, on February 3, 2008, launched a Sunday afternoon program on WTOD 1560 AM until WNOC made its initial sign-on on August 14, 2010.

Annunciation Radio's beginnings as a weekly Sunday afternoon program on Toledo's daytime talk station, the former WTOD (now CSN International-owned WWYC) 1560 AM, later moved to Cumulus-owned WLQR 1470 AM in Toledo, up until the time WNOC made its initial sign-on during the Feast of the Assumption on the weekend of August 14 and 15 of 2010. WHRQ is a sister station and repeater of WNOC 89.7 FM in Bowling Green, and serving the metropolitan Toledo area.

In June, 2010, 2 months before the station began broadcasting, Tim Kusner joined the Radio Station Staff. He was responsible for obtaining underwriters and gradually moved into producing, announcing, traffic management, managing the station Facebook page, and Co-Hosting the Friday Morning live program "Annunciation Radio Presents." WNOC serves the Bowling Green and Toledo areas while sister station WHRQ in Sandusky at 88.1 FM made it on-air debut on Monday April 25, 2011.

The Annunciation Radio audiostream commenced on its website on August 26, 2010.

Upon its initial sign-on (which took place at 3:30pm on Monday April 25, 2011), WHRQ became the third Catholic station within the Toledo Diocese to begin broadcasting. WHRQ along with sister stations WFOT, WSHB and originating station WNOC airs programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio.

In June 2013, Annunciation Radio purchased WFOT 89.5 FM licensed in Lexington and serving the Mansfield area. WFOT, on the air since 2007 was originally part of Columbus-based St. Gabriel Radio as a near-simulcast of WVSG (AM). WFOT programming transitioned from St Gabriel Radio to Annunciation Radio on July 11, 2013 at 3:00 pm local time.

In the fall of 2013, the construction permit of WSHB 90.9 FM in Willard was purchased by Annunciation Radio from the Mansfield Christian School and made its sign-on during Christmas Day on December 25, 2013.

WJTA 88.9 FM licensed to Glandorf and transmitting from Leipsic is owned by a separate entity that serves Findlay, Ottawa, Lima,Napoleon, Defiance and Paulding which compliments both the WNOC and WHRQ signals. Since all three stations carry nearly all of the EWTN radio schedule, EWTN programming is easily accessed on a car radio along the I-75, Ohio State Route 15 and U.S. Route 6 corridors in northwestern and north central Ohio by all three stations in their respective areas and frequencies.

References

↑ "WHRQ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2009-09-02.

External links

Official Annunciation Radio site (with streaming audio)

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHRQ

Radio-Locator information on WHRQ

Radio stations in the Sandusky-Port Clinton, Ohio/Lake Erie Islands region

By AM frequency	1430 1450 1510 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.1 89.5 90.5 90.7 90.9 92.1 93.3 95.3 96.1 97.7 99.1 100.9 102.7

By callsign	W227BJ WCPZ WFOB WFRO-FM WGGN WHEI WHRQ WHVT WKFM WLEC WLKR WLKR-FM WMJK WNRK WNZN WOHF WSHB WTTF WVMS

Defunct stations	WFRO

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also Southwestern Ontario Radio List of radio stations in Ohio

Religious radio stations in the state of Ohio

Stations	WAKW – Cincinnati WAOM – Mowrystown WAUI – Shelby WBCJ – Spencerville WBCY – Archbold WBIE – Delphos WBJV – Steubenville WCBV-LP – Lima WCCD – Parma/Cleveland WCCR – Cleveland WCNW – Fairfield WCRF-FM – Cleveland WCUE – Cuyahoga Falls/Akron WCVJ – Jefferson WCVV – Belpre WEEC – Springfield WFCJ – Miamisburg WFCO – Lancaster WFOT – Lexington WGOJ – Conneaut WGRI – Cincinnati WHSS -Hamilton WHJM – Anna WHKW – Cleveland WHKZ – Warren/Youngstown WHRQ – Sandusky WHVT – Clyde WHVY – Coshocton WILB – Canton WJDD – Carrollton WJEE – Bolivar WJFY-LP – Newark WJHE – Heath WJIC – Zanesville WJJE – Delaware WJTA – Glandorf/Leipsic WJTB – North Ridgeville/Cleveland WJYM – Bowling Green/Toledo WKCD – Cedarville WKJA – Brunswick WLRU-LP – Hillsboro WNHC-LP – Lima WNKL – Wauseon/Toledo WNOC – Bowling Green/Toledo WNOP – Newport/Cincinnati WNWT – Rossford/Toledo WOFN – Beach City WOHC – Chillicothe WOTL – Toledo WQRP – Dayton WRFD – Columbus-Worthington WRRO – Edon/Bryan WSHB – Willard WSJG -Tiffin WTGN – Lima WTLL-LP – Zanesville WTPG – Whitehouse WTTP-LP – Lima WUKV – Portsmouth WULM – Springfield/Dayton WVML – Millersburg WVMS – Sandusky WVSG -Columbus WWOW – Conneaut WWTL-LP – Logan WWYC – Toledo WXMF – Marion WXML – Upper Sandusky WXMW – Sycamore WYFY – Cambridge WYTN – Youngstown WYWH-LP – Athens WZCP – Chillicothe WZLP – Loudonville WZWP – West Union WYLR – Hubbard/Youngstown

Defunct	WCER – Canton

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