WOC (AM)

WOC (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Davenport, Iowa, and serving the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois. WOC is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It broadcasts a Talk radio format, under the slogan "The Quad Cities News Leader." Its studios are located at 3535 East Kimberly Road in Davenport (along with co-owned KCQQ, KMXG, KUUL, WFXN and WLLR-FM). Its transmitter is located at an antenna farm in Bettendorf, Iowa, near the campus of Scott Community College. (WOC is the only remaining AM station at this site, as all the other transmitters are for FM radio or television.) WOC broadcasts at 5000 watts with a directional signal to avoid interfering with other stations at 1420 kHz.

WOC's most famous former employee was future U.S. President Ronald "Dutch" Reagan, who got his start in radio there in 1932, broadcasting football games, after having played football at Eureka College in nearby Eureka, Illinois.

Programming

WOC broadcasts both local and nationally syndicated talk shows, most of which come from Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. Weekdays begin at 5 a.m. with First Light, followed at 5:30 a.m. with AM Quad Cities hosted by Dan Deibert and Dan Kennedy. At 9 a.m. WOC carries Glenn Beck followed at 11 a.m. by Rush Limbaugh. At 2 p.m. Jim Fisher hosts a local talk show. At 6 p.m. Sean Hannity is heard, followed by Jonathan Brandmeier at 9 p.m. Overnight, it's Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.

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WLLR-FM

WLLR-FM is a radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, USA, whose format is modern country music. The station's frequency is 103.7 MHz and it broadcasts at a power of 100 kW.

WLLR (commonly known as "No. 1 Country") is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., with studios located in Davenport. Other stations located in the same complex are KMXG, KUUL-FM, KCQQ-FM, WFXN and WOC.

History of 103.7 MHz

The Davenport allocation for 103.7 FM – representing the second FM station in the Quad Cities – dates to October 1948, when the station signed on as WOC-FM, a companion to its AM sister station, WOC (1420 AM). The station was owned by the Palmer family, a well-known Quad Cities family that started the Palmer College of Chiropractic.

As with most FM radio stations in the 1950s and 1960s, WOC-FM played mostly easy listening and classical music.

The frequency's first major format change came in February 1972, when WOC-FM became the Quad-Cities market's first full-time FM rock station. Adopting a contemporary hit radio format, the station's call letters changed to KIIK, and was known to fans as "KIIK 104." KIIK quickly became very popular with Quad City-area listeners, and soon became the market's top-rated station.