WKRQ

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WKRQ
Broadcast area	Cincinnati, Ohio
Branding	Q102
Slogan	"Cincinnati's Hit Music"
First air date	1975
Frequency	101.9 (MHz)
Format	Adult Top 40
ERP	50,000 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	(former) sister station to WKRC, substituted with a Q
Owner	Entercom Communications (sale to Bonneville International pending [1] )
Website	Q102's website

WKRQ, known on-air as Q102, is a radio station located in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and broadcasts at 101.9 FM. Its transmitter is located in Cincinnati. It carries an adult-oriented Top 40 format and was owned by CBS Radio until 2006, when it was sold to Entercom. Entercom, in turn, announced in January 2007 that it would be swapping its entire Cincinnati cluster, including WKRQ, to Bonneville International together with three radio stations in Seattle, Washington for all three of Bonneville's FM radio stations in San Francisco, California and $1 million cash, subject to FCC approval. [2]

[edit] History

WKRQ's CHR format has been in place since 1975, making Q102 one of the longest-running currently broadcasting Top 40 stations in the United States, despite its shift towards serving an adult audience, leaving rival Top 40 WKFS to take the younger demos by default.

In 1978, Mary Wood won the first one-million-dollar prize ever awarded by any radio or TV station in the United States. The feat landed her and the station in the Guinness Book of World Records.

[edit] Allusions to "WKRP in Cincinnati"

Because the call letters (and format) are similar, some have wondered if the show WKRP in Cincinnati is based on anything that happened at WKRQ. Creator Hugh Wilson has said that most of the episodes are based on his real-life experiences at an Atlanta radio station, but he has never said whether the call letters were based on WKRQ's.

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FM Radio Stations in the Cincinnati, Ohio Market (Arbitron #28)

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