Quahog 5

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. Their combative relationship is frequently noticeable on-air during news reports.

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

Tom Tucker
Thomas "Tom" Tucker is a character in the animated television series Family Guy. He is an arrogant, baritone newscaster at Channel 5. His family includes Stacy, his second wife, and a son named Jake who's face is upside down from his first marriage; Tom was briefly Thelma Griffin’s boyfriend who acted like a step-father to Peter in “Mother Tucker.” In the Pilot of the show, he was named Mike.



Tom tends to insult everybody around him, particularly Diane Simmons, his co-anchor. He dislikes her and frequently trades insults with her on-air.

Diane Simmons
Diane Simmons (voiced by Lori Alan) is Tom's co-anchor. In "The King Is Dead", a younger Diane's full name is listed as Diane Seidelman, hinting that she is Jewish. Whether this was her maiden name or she assumed a stage name to sound less Jewish is unknown. Diane has her own Ricki Lake-esque talk show where she was abused by Lois. In ("The King Is Dead") was given the starring role in Peter's version of The King and I, though she quit before the production went on due to Peter constantly changing the storyline and theme of the play. She seems involved in fewer lewd or bizarre acts than her co-anchor, Tom Tucker, but has been known to do things like flash her breasts on television and hire male prostitutes. It is briefly suggested that she may be racist against African Americans, going so far as to say, while unwittingly on air "I just plain don't like black people." It is said that one of her previous husbands committed suicide by "blowing his brains out."

Ollie Williams
Ollie Williams (voiced by Phil LaMarr) is the black meteorologist on Quahog 5 News' weather segment, the BlaccuWeather (a play on AccuWeather) forecast, and is reminiscent of Al Roker. His forecasts are generally very loud, quick, concise, and to the point, generally being less than 5 words long (for example, "IT'S RAINING SIDEWAYS!" "IT'S GONNA RAIN!" "E'RYBODY LOOK LIKE ANTS!" "WHO WANTS THIS DOG?!" and "HE GON GET IT?!") It's revealed in the episode "Stewie B. Goode" that he is very computer savvy when he helps Tom Tucker access his e-mail ("DID YOU CHECK YOUR TCP/IP SETTINGS?!" "Yes I did, Ollie." "ENABLE COOKIES?!" "Yes, Ollie." "YOU WANT THIS DOG!?" "No thank you, Ollie."). At the very beginning of Lois Kills Stewie, before the opening credits, Tom Tucker asks him to summarize all the events that happened in the previous episode, Stewie Kills Lois, which he does very quickly.

Ollie is expected to play Lando Calrissian in the second installment of the Family Guy Star Wars saga, "Something, Something, Something Dark Side."

Tricia Takanawa
Tricia Takanawa (voiced by Alex Borstein) 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 the flu in "Stewie Loves Lois" (though she does little more than throw up in a toilet) and doing a multi-part segment on sex in "Brian in Love", in which she actually has sex with Glenn Quagmire. During a hurricane report, she is hit by a very large object on air. 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 a nasaly, even monotone. Though in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story she was unusually excited when David Bowie said "Just you shut your mouth" referring to his song "Little China Girl" and starts to hump his leg like a dog and offers to take him to her house and make him "fish bowel soup" followed by Tom Tucker saying "Thank you Tricia, for setting your people back 1000 years."

Maria Jimenez
Maria Jimenez is a rarely-featured Hispanic reporter, appearing only if Trisha Takanawa is already somewhere else or is absent. She appears in the episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea" reporting live at the Griffin's home to get Peter who "supposedly" burned down Mr. Pinchley's bar. Tom Tucker cannot pronounce her name.

Greg the Weather Mime
A temporary character that acts out the weather, while Tom attempts to narrate it.