WHHD is a contemporary hit radio

Contemporary hit radio

Contemporary hit radio is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts...

 (CHR) station serving the Augusta, Georgia

Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a consolidated city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located along the Savannah River. As of the 2010 census, the Augusta–Richmond County population was 195,844 not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe.Augusta is the principal city of the Augusta-Richmond County...

 metro area. It is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group Incorporated and is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 (FCC) to Clearwater, South Carolina

Clearwater, South Carolina

Clearwater is a census-designated place in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. It lies near North Augusta, South Carolina, and is part of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area. Clearwater is located in historic Horse Creek Valley...

 to broadcast at 98.3 FM with a effective radiated power

Effective radiated power

In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

 (ERP) of 11.5 kW.

History

98.3 signed on as WCNA in April, 1987 with an Easy Listening

Easy listening

Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...

 format. It became WSLT in 1993 with a Adult Contemporary format under the handle "Lite 98.3".

In February 2006, the station dropped the AC format and aired a loop of a brief snippet of Gorillaz

Gorillaz

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's "Feel Good Inc" (the laughing heard in the beginning and end of the song) nonstop for 24 hours. When the stunt ended, "HD98.3" was born with a CHR format, filling the void left when the former WZNY flipped to Country as WIBL

WEKL

WEKL, also known as "Eagle 105.7" is a Classic rock radio station located in Augusta, Georgia. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast on 105.7 FM with an effective radiated power of 100 kW.- History :...

 a little more than a year previous.

On April 1, 2010, WZNY

WZNY

WZNY, known on-air as "Y102.3", is a Top 40 radio station in the United States, licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to Augusta, Georgia, broadcasting on 102.3 MHz with an ERP of 1.5 kW.-History:...

 102.3 adopted a Top 40 format and the "Y" brand, which had previously been at WZNY (now WIBL) 105.7 and was a top 40 station during the 1990s as "Y105.7." The station is now competing with WHHD.

External links

• HD98.3 — official website