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Encyclopedia > WQAQ

WQAQ 98.1 FM is the student run radio station at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Quinnipiac University: University Quadrangle, School of Business and School of Communications facilities, Sleeping Giant in background Quinnipiac University is a private four-year university in Hamden, Connecticut, located on about 500 acres (2 km²), just north of New Haven. ... Hamden is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


The organization is approved and funded by the Student Government Association and completely run by students, including an elected management staff. Though primarily a "college alternative" format, there are also many hip hop, metal, and talk shows. The station is on the air throughout the school year, 24 hours a day. Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Heavy metal music. ...

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Special Programs and Features

Annually, WQAQ hosts a spring concert (past acts include Allister, The Bouncing Souls, Angry Salad, and Camera Shy Paparazzi) and an Open Mic Night (a battle of the bands competition, recent winners including Camera Shy Paparazzi and Chris Fredda). Several notable shows include the WQAQ morning show which features the best of all genres played on the station, Political Eruption (a political news talk show), and the Afternoon Drive show begun by Steve Kistner. WQAQ's longest running show is Slacker Radio, a punk music show originated by DJ Chris Fredda in 1999 and continued today by Andy Yaworski. Allister is a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... The Bouncing Souls are a punk band, formed in 1987. ... Angry Salad was a pop rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. ... Chris Fredda is a Folk-Punk artist from New Jersey and was the founding host of WQAQs longest running music program, Slacker Radio, which he hosted from 1999-2003. ... Slacker Radio is a punk rock format radio show on Quinnipiac Universitys student radio station, WQAQ 98. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Chris Fredda is a Folk-Punk artist from New Jersey and was the founding host of WQAQs longest running music program, Slacker Radio, which he hosted from 1999-2003. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...


By the initiative of former Program Director Chris Cooper, WQAQ began broadcasting 24 hours a day and updated to digital broadcasting, including internet streaming.


Notable Former Staff

A number of former WQAQ staffers have gone on to careers in commercial radio:


Justin Louis - Former Production Director, DJ - WMHX-FM, Harrisburg, PA
Lisa Gold - Former Promotions Director, DJ - WBHT-FM, Wilkes-Barre, PA
"Little" John Principale - Former Program Director, DJ - KMXP-FM, Phoenix, AZ
Ryan Jones - Former Music Director, DJ - WTIC-FM, Hartford, CT
Thomas J. Kelly - Former DJ - Stand Up Comic - Host ThisShowAgain.com and Creator of IHateWeddings.com


Motto and Mascot

The station motto is "The Soundtrack of Quinnipiac" and the mascot of the station is a duck, owing to the call letters QAQ ("quack").


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  Results from FactBites:
 
WQAQ can't broadcast without a tower (797 words)
The students at Quinnipiac University's WQAQ, Hamden, CT (98.1) weren't hallucinating when they came back to school - the tower in the middle of campus that held the antenna for their little class D FM was gone, leaving them with no way to put the station back on the air for the Fall semester.
The recent decision to take down the radio tower has crippled, if not destroyed, WQAQ which has for years been one of the predominant student-run operations on this campus.
A radio tower that was used to broadcast WQAQ -- the student-run radio station at Quinnipiac University -- was taken down by order of school officials.
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