WQBQ is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Talk

Talk radio

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 format. Licensed to Leesburg, Florida

Leesburg, Florida

Leesburg is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States. The population was 15,956 at the 2000 census. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 19,086.. Leesburg is located in central Florida, between Lake Harris and Lake Griffin, at the head of the Oklawaha River system....

, USA, the station is currently owned by Rama Communications, Inc.

History

The station went on the air in 1962 as WBIL. Call letters were changed to WZST in 1966. They were later changed to WINF on October 7, 1985. Less than a year later on September 22, 1986, the station changed its call sign to WQBQ. The next callsign change would occur on September 7, 2009 when it would become WRHB only to revert to WQBQ on December 10, 2010.

Construction permit

On December 3, 2010, a construction permit was approved by the F.C.C. for WQBQ (then WRHB) to go from an omnidirectional 5-kilowatt daytime signal & 90-watt nighttime signal to 5 kilowatts directional daytime & 88 watts directional nighttime.