WHHD

WHHD
Clearwater, South Carolina;
Broadcast area	Augusta, Georgia
Frequency	98.3 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding	HD98.3
Programming
Format	Top 40 (CHR)
Subchannels	HD2: WCHZ-FM simulcast
Affiliations	Premiere Networks; Westwood One
Ownership
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc.; (Beasley Media Group Licenses, LLC);
Sister stations	WCHZ-FM, WDRR, WGAC, WGAC-FM, WGUS-FM, WKXC-FM,
History
First air date	April 1987 (as WCNA)
Former call signs	WCNA (1987–1993); WSLT (1993–2006)
Call sign meaning	W Hit music in HD radio
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	24148
Class	C3
ERP	11,500 watts
HAAT	148 meters (486 feet)
Transmitter coordinates	33° 30' 44" N, 82° 04' 48" W
Translator(s)	95.5 W238AU (Augusta, relays HD2)
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Webcast	Listen Live Link (High); Listen Live Link (Low); Listen Live Player
Website	hd983.com

WHHD (98.3 FM) is a top 40 (CHR) station serving the Augusta, Georgia metro area. It is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc., through licensee Beasley Media Group, LLC, and is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Clearwater, South Carolina to broadcast with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 11.5 kW.^[2] Its studios are located just two blocks from the Augusta-Richmond County border in unincorporated Columbia County, Georgia and the transmitter is in Martinez, Georgia. It is the only Top 40 formatted station in the Augusta market.

History

98.3 signed on as WCNA in April 1987 with an easy listening format. It became WSLT in 1993 with an adult contemporary format under the handle "Lite 98.3".^[3]

In February 2006, the station dropped the AC format and aired a loop of a brief snippet of Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." (the laughing heard in the beginning and end of the song) nonstop for 24 hours. When the stunt ended, "HD98.3" was born with a CHR format, filling the void left when the former WZNY flipped to country as WIBL a little more than a year previous.