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WKRQ
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Facility ID11276
ClassB
ERP16,000 watts
HAAT264 meters (866 ft)
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WKRQ (101.9

Cincinnati, Ohio, area. The station is licensed to Cincinnati and broadcasts from the WKRQ Tower. It airs an adult-leaning Top 40 (CHR) format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. The station's studios have been located on Kennedy Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati with co-owned WREW, WUBE-FM and WYGY since August 2021.[2]

History

WKRQ signed on the air in 1947 as WCTS, which aired a

adult top 40 format in the mid-1990s, leaving Top 40/CHR rival WKFS
to take the younger audience by default.

The late 1970s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati is often said to be based on either WKRQ or WKRC, with the final letter being the only difference. In reality, though, the show was based on creator Hugh Wilson's experience with WQXI in Atlanta.

In 1980, 16-year-old Mary Buchanan won the first one-million-dollar prize ever awarded by any

Guinness Book of World Records
.

Taft Broadcasting would be reorganized as Great American Broadcasting in 1987. However, the company would declare bankruptcy in 1993, and was reorganized as Citicasters, Inc. (their sister AM station would be sold to another locally-based company,

San Francisco, California, and $1 million cash.[7] 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 would sell WKRQ and several other stations to Hubbard Broadcasting for $505 million.[8] The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WKRQ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ McLane, Paul (2022-09-10). "A Bright New Airy Home for Hubbard Cincinnati". Radio World. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  3. ^ "American Radio History" (PDF).[dead link]
  4. ^ "RR-1997-01-03" (PDF).
  5. ^ Landler, Mark (1997-09-20). "Westinghouse to Acquire 98 Radio Stations". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "D-Radio-NE-Ter-BC-YB-1999" (PDF).
  7. ^ Virgin, Bill (January 18, 2007). "Entercom trades radio stations". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  8. ^ "Another Big Radio Deal". January 19, 2011. Archived from the original on January 22, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  9. ^ "Hubbard deal to purchase Bonneville stations closes". Radio Ink. May 2, 2011. Archived from the original on March 12, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2011.

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