User:Nathan Obral/sandbox/WQHS-DT
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HAAT | 352 m (1,155 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°22′58″N 81°42′6″W / 41.38278°N 81.70167°W |
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WQHS-DT (channel 61) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision and UniMás networks. Owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision, it is the only full-power Spanish-language television station in the state of Ohio. WQHS-DT's studios and transmitter are located on West Ridgewood Drive in suburban Parma.
This station's sign on in 1981 as WCLQ-TV marked the return of broadcasting over channel 61 in Cleveland, a frequency unused since the closure of
Prior history of channel 61
A previous license owned by
History
WCLQ-TV (1981–1986)
Even though WKBF-TV had largely failed, interest in channel 61 was fueled by the imminent maturity of
Preview's run on WCLQ-TV initially boasted a subscription base of nearly 40,000 at its peak. The service carried select
When Time Inc. announced the closure of Preview in Cleveland on May 12, 1983, the service only had 22,000 subscribers;
Balaban Broadcasting and the other partners in Cleveland Associates sold WCLQ-TV to Channel Communications, a subsidiary of Nashville, Tennessee–based NASCO, Inc., on May 4, 1984, for $14 million (equivalent to $41.1 million in 2023).[20] NASCO, which primarily handled National Football League merchandise,[21] established Channel as a diversification move, purchasing WCLQ-TV along with two small-market network affiliates—KAIT in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and KPLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana—for a combined $48.8 million.[22] Brandt resigned in late April 1985, with Channel director of operations Jack White taking over as interim general manager; rumors among staffers suggested Brandt was not asked to leave willingly.[23] In a bid to remain competitive, WCLQ-TV acquired syndication rights to Dallas, Simon & Simon and The Love Boat in expensive contracts[24] and began using Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) in promotional spots and billboards.[25] Later purchases included reruns of The A-Team and "lost episodes" of The Honeymooners.[21] Dallas reruns fared poorly, only running on WCLQ-TV for six months before being removed from the schedule entirely.[26]
The summer of 1985 saw both
Channel Communications's aggressiveness with WCLQ-TV failed to yield a positive return, with the station losing "a few million dollars" annually.
The HSN years (1986–2002)
I wouldn't pretend that this is a profit deal. Channel put a lot more than $1 million in this station. Estimates are that the station won't go into the black until September or October of 1987, and I think Channel was just tired of losing money. At least they didn't want to lose any more money.
Jack White, WCLQ-TV general manager[24]
After months of rumors,
WCLQ-TV expanded to 24-hour broadcasting on September 8, 1986, with HSN accounting for 18 hours daily.
During the license transfer process, program distributors
Once the sale was finalized on December 24, 1986, the remaining entertainment programming was dropped and the call sign changed to WQHS, reflecting the Silver King/Home Shopping Network ownership.[1] Mark Dawidziak of the Akron Beacon Journal later referred to WCLQ-TV's demise as the station falling victim to the end of the "indy boom" within the television industry.[29] The station carried HSN programming around the clock with one notable exception: for a 13-week period in 1989,[46] WQHS carried a video simulcast of WMJI's morning-drive show with John Lanigan, a programming experiment tried out at other HSN owned-and-operated stations.[47]
Univision years (2002–present)
In the late 1990s, USA Broadcasting (renamed from Silver King in 1998 after a restructuring of
Most of the stations acquired by Univision were in markets with an existing Univision station, in which case the second stations would be used to launch a new network known as
In 2005, the United Church of Christ petitioned the FCC to deny a renewal of WQHS-TV's license over Univision's classification of a telenovela as E/I (educational/instructional);[54] the case was settled in 2007 with the payment of a $24 million fine by the network, covering violations of the law at WQHS and other Univision stations.[55]
Despite 20 years of Univision ownership, WQHS has never produced a full-length local newscast. The first such newscasts in Spanish in the Cleveland market debuted in January 2022 when Gray Television, owner of WOIO and WUAB, launched Telemundo outlet WTCL-LD (channel 6).[56]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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61.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
WQHS-DT | Univision |
61.2 | UNIMAS | UniMás | ||
61.3 | 480i | 4:3 |
GET-TV | getTV
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61.4 | 16:9 | MYST | Ion Mystery | |
61.5 | Dabl | Dabl |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WQHS shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 34, using virtual channel 61.[58]
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