WKRQ

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WKRQ

City of license	Cincinnati, Ohio
Broadcast area	Cincinnati, Ohio
Branding	Q102
Slogan	"Cincinnati's Hit Music, & More"
Frequency	101.9 (MHz)
First air date	1975
Format	Top 40 (CHR)
ERP	16,000 watts
HAAT	264 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	11276
Callsign meaning	(former) sister station to WKRC, substituted with a Q
Owner	Hubbard Broadcasting
Sister stations	WREW, WYGY, WUBE
Webcast	Listen Live
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 (CHR) format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.

History

WKRQ signed on the air in 1947 as WCTS which aired a classical format. WCTS would change its call letters to WKRC-FM in 1950 and for 20 years. WKRC-FM would air a classical music format. In 1970, WKRC-FM would become a top 40 station as "Stereo 102" as an automated Drake-Chenault station. In 1972, WKRC-FM became WKRQ and became a live DJ Top 40 station using "102 KRQ" as its primary logo and "Q102" and "the Q" as secondary logos. The station adopted "Q102" as its primary logo in 1975. WKRQ switched to an AOR format briefly for approximately 6 months between June 1973 and December 1973. WKRQ's CHR format has been in place since 1974, making Q102 one of the longest-running currently broadcasting Top 40 stations in the United States, despite its shift towards an adult top 40 format most recently, leaving rival Top 40 WKFS to take the younger audience by default. Even though it is more top 40 than most adult top 40s, WKRQ is reported by Mediabase & Nielsen BDS as a hot adult contemporary station.

In 1980, 16 Year-old Mary Wood won the first one-million-dollar prize ever awarded by any radio or TV station in the United States in a joint contest with sister station WKRC-AM. The feat earned her and the station a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

WKRQ 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.^[1] In May 2007, the station launched an online stream from its website at www.wkrq.com. Also that month, Bonneville officially took over the operations of Entercom's former Cincinnati radio cluster through a local marketing agreement. Entercom officially closed on its acquisition of the stations on November 30. The sale of the Cincinnati cluster to Bonneville was conditionally approved in November 2007, with the remainder of the deal finally approved in March 2008. The official transfer of the Cincinnati stations to Bonneville took place on March 14.

WKRQ became the only hot adult contemporary station in Cincinnati since the flip of WNNF to adult album alternative in 2009. WNNF returned to hot AC in 2011, only to dump it again the following year.

On January 19, 2011, it was announced that Bonneville International will sell WKRQ and several other stations to Hubbard Broadcasting for $505 million.^[2] The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.^[3]

Allusions to "WKRP in Cincinnati"

Because the call letters (and format) are similar, some have wondered if the TV series 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.

References

↑ Virgin, Bill (January 18, 2007). "Entercom trades radio stations". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
↑ http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2011/01/19/another-big-radio-deal-q102-b105-rewind-wolf-sold/
↑ "Hubbard deal to purchase Bonneville stations closes". Radio Ink. May 2, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.

External links

Cincinnati's Q102 - WKRQ

Query the FCC's FM station database for WKRQ

Radio-Locator information on WKRQ

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WKRQ

v t e Radio stations in the Cincinnati, Ohio market

By FM frequency	88.3 88.5 88.7 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.7 89.9 90.9 91.1 91.7 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.9 95.7 95.9 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.5 99.1 99.3 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 103.9 103.9 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5

By AM frequency	550 700¹ 740 910 1050 1160 1230 1320 1360 1450 1480 1530¹ 1560

By callsign	WAIF WAKW WAOL WCKY¹ WCNW WCVG WCVX WDBZ WDJO WEBN WFCJ WFTK WGRI WGRR WGUC WHKO WHSS WIOK WIZF WJVS WKFS WKID WKRC WKRQ WLHS WLW¹ WMKV WMOH WMUB WMWX WNKN WNKR WNKU WNNF WNOP WOBO WOFX-FM WOSL WOXY WPFB WRBI WREW WRRM WSAI WSCH WUBE-FM WVQC-LP WVXU WXEG WYGY

Defunct	WJVS (88.3 FM) WLMH (89.1 FM) WAQZ (97.3 FM)

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v t e Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.

Key People	Stanley S. Hubbard

Radio stations:	KAZG KDKB KDUS KIXI KKNW KLCK-FM KQMV KRWM KSLX-FM KSTP-AM KSTP-FM KTMY KUPD WARH WBQH WDRV / WWDV WFED / WWFD WIL WILV WKRQ WREW WTMX WTOP-FM / WTLP-FM / WWWT WUBE WYGY WXOS

Local News and Weather Channels	WHEC Pinpoint Weather WNYT NC13 Now!

ABC network affiliates	KAAL KSTP-TV KSAX-TV / KRWF-TV WDIO-TV / WIRT

NBC network affiliates:	KOB-TV / KOBF-TV KOBR WHEC-TV WNYT

Other stations:	KAEP-LP (Azteca América)¹ KSTC-TV (Independent) WNYA (MyNetworkTV)

Cable television channels:	Ovation Reelz

¹Owned by Hubbard and operated by News-Press & Gazette Company in a LMA

Coordinates: 39°06′58″N 84°30′07″W / 39.116°N 84.502°W / 39.116; -84.502

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