Quahog 5

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Quahog 5 (WQHG) is a fictional television station featured in the FOX network TV show Family Guy, located in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. The two anchors, Tom and Diane, have been present since the beginning of the show, and have become two of the most prominent characters.

WQHG has a sister radio station at 97.1FM, featuring the weekday duo Weenie and the Butt.

1 Tom Tucker
2 Diane Simmons
3 Ollie Williams
4 Tricia Takanawa
5 Maria Gimendaz

Main article: Tom Tucker (Family Guy)

Diane Simmons (voiced by Lori Alan) is Tom's coworker. Diane Simmons' maiden name is Diane Seidelman, hinting that she is Jewish. She has a disliking for black people, and has been called a bitch on-air by Tom Tucker. Diane has her own Jerry Springer-esque talk show where she was abused by Lois (for subtitling Lois as "Probably more of a bitch than she lets on"), and on one occasion ("The King Is Dead") was going to star in Peter's version of The King and I.

Ollie Williams is the black meteorologist on Quahog 5 News' weather segment, the BlackuWeather (a play on AccuWeather) forecast, and is reminiscent of Al Roker. His forecasts are generally very loud, concise, and to the point, generally being less than 5 words long (for example, "it's raining sideways!" or when in the traffic chopper, "Everybody looks like ants!").

Tricia Takanawa is the main correspondent and "top Asian reporter" on Quahog 5 News. Takanawa is often made to do dirty jobs, such as covering a segment on getting the flu in Stewie Loves Lois and doing a segment on sex in Brian in Love, in which she actually has sex with Glen Quagmire. She is grilled and eaten by Tom and Diane in Da Boom following a nuclear holocaust (the episode was later revealed to be a dream of Pamela Ewing from the TV show Dallas, therefore she remains a recurring character). Her ethnicity is always pointed out by the news anchors in their segue ("And now we go to Asian reporter, Tricia Takanawa") and one instance the direction of Tricia's race as being Japanese was confirmed. Tricia rarely, if ever, shows any emotion or reaction to the stories she covers, preferring to report everything in an even monotone except in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story when she met David Bowie.