KADQ-FM (98.3 FM) is a

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licensed to

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, United States. The station is currently owned by Frandsen Media Company, LLC and carries a

classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ...

format. The station broadcasts from a tower on

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, northeast of Evanston.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on April 1,

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. The new station was assigned the call letters KSNA by the FCC on March 28, 2006. Just over a week later, on April 6, 2006, the station was assigned the current KADQ-FM callsign. KADQ-FM received its license to cover from the FCC on April 3, 2008.

Silent

On April 30, 2008, the station informed the FCC that it had fallen silent on April 22, 2008, and citing financial reasons it requested special temporary authority to remain silent. The FCC granted this request on September 10, 2008, with a scheduled expiration of March 9, 2009. On February 26, 2009, KADQ-FM filed for an extension of their remain silent authority but this request was dismissed on January 7, 2010. The station resumed broadcasting briefly on March 30, 2009, but fell silent again on March 31, 2009. , the station's April 7, 2009, application for remain silent authority had been accepted for filing but was pending further action by the Commission.

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ADQ-FM Uinta County, Wyoming Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2005 {{Wyoming-radio-station-stub