WDAQ
hot adult contemporary radio station in Danbury, Connecticut, United States
WDAQ (98.3 FM, "98Q") is a radio station licensed to Danbury, Connecticut, and serving part of Western Connecticut and Putnam County, New York, with a hot adult contemporary format. The station is owned by The Berkshire Broadcasting Corporation, along with sister stations WLAD and WAXB. The studios and offices are located on Mill Plain Road in Danbury.
WDAQ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,300 watts. The transmitter is located on Brushy Hill Road, also in Danbury. It broadcasts using HD Radio technology. WDAQ has four digital subchannels, three of them feeding FM translators with formats including classic hits (94.5), country music (97.9/107.3) and public radio (103.7).
History
Rural Radio Network
In 1953, the station first signed on as WLAD-FM. Then, as now, it was owned by Berkshire Broadcasting as the FM sister station of WLAD (800 AM); the studios at the time were located at 307 Main Street. WLAD-FM was one of the first Class A FM stations in the United States, designed to have only a regional signal. It was also the first FM station to sign on in the Danbury area, four years prior to the start of WINE-FM (now WRKI).
Originally, WLAD-FM was part of the Rural Radio Network as one of two Connecticut affiliates of the New York-based chain.
The public source identifies “WDAQ” as hot adult contemporary radio station in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WDAQ, adult and contemporary.
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