The departure of the Captain would be the start of many defections by high-profile personalities, including "Storm" Kennedy, Keith Michaels, Lisa Knight, and Ron Pritchard, who programmed the station for most of the late 1990s through the mid-2000s. WKHQ Today Today, WKHQ is still Northern Michigan's #1 rated CHR station Current voice over talent is Chad Erickson, who replaced Randy Cox in April 2019. Randy Cox was the voice talent of the station after the passing of longtime voice artist Brian James. Current on-air line up includes Mornings 6a–10a am Robby and Rochelle (previously at WDVD Detroit, WSHK, WSAK New Hampshire) 10-2p Rochelle, 2p-7p Fish (Formerly WJZJ, WKHQ Nights) is now on afternoons and Tyler Woods is 7pm to Midnight. On weekends, WKHQ airs Hollywood Hamilton's Weekend Top 30 and Remix Top 30, and the Hot AC version of American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest. Robby Bridges was named Vice President Of Programming for MacDonald/Garber Broadcasting in 2020. Jingles WKHQ used two jingle packages from JAM Creative Productions (Skywave and Breakthrough) with a HLC package prior to its switch to JAM. However, on May 17, 2009 the station began to use ReelWorld One CHR with the Kiss L.A logo. In January 2013, WKHQ revamped its image completely, dropping jingles all together in favor of using sweepers and liners. April 2019 saw the return of Jingles to the station, again utilizing the Kiss LA Logo from Reelworld. Competition WKHQ competes with Z-93 WJZQ, the market's only other CHR station. References Sources Michiguide.com - WKHQ History http://www.allaccess.com All Access - Industry Directory http://www.106khq.com https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/robbybridges?challengeId=AQEjJHJjxT3EhQAAAXeqlcPFgKe9D7JFFJaet8VjHgicWrA36BD3J6oLwiCrWqIlJnOoKHRogU3nBZD2Yql8tTcrR3YnSfvahw&submissionId=627edba7-ab36-6416-ebdd-30ad7fe77471 External links article - “Is there life after ownership?” Radio and Records Magazine Dec 4, 1981 https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/80s/81/RR-1981-12-04-OCR-Page-0016.pdf#search=%22wkhq%22 KHQ-FM Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1980