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| Broadcast area | Dubuque and Vicinity |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 1490 kHz |
| Branding | WDBQ NewsTalk 1490 AM |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/talk/sports |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KLYV, KXGE, WDBQ-FM, WJOD | |
| History | |
First air date | 1925 |
Former call signs | WKBB (1925–1951)[1] |
Former frequencies | |
Call sign meaning | Dubuque |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 12705 |
| Class | C |
| Power | 1,000 watts unlimited |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°30′10″N 90°42′24″W / 42.50278°N 90.70667°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | wdbqam.com |
WDBQ (1490 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States, the station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare License, LLC.[3]
The station is one of six on the Iowa AM broadcast band, where stations are normally assigned call letters beginning with K, with a call sign beginning with W. Although the five other call signs were granted before the boundary between K and W call signs was moved to the Mississippi River in 1923, WKBB was allowed to keep its W call sign when it moved from western Illinois in 1939, and again in 1951, when it changed from WKBB to WDBQ in order to have the same base call sign as its FM station – an exception also granted to WSUI and WMT elsewhere in Iowa.[4]
- ^ a b "FCC History Cards for WDBQ".
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WDBQ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "WDBQ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ White, Thomas. "K/W Call Letters in the United States". United States Early Radio History.