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Coordinates: 28°55′10″N 81°19′08″W / 28.91944°N 81.31889°W / 28.91944; -81.31889
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WQMP
Sports gambling "BetQL Network"
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
November 1, 1967; 56 years ago (1967-11-01)
Former call signs
  • WMFJ-FM (1967–73)
  • WQXQ (1973–80)
  • WDOQ (1980–84)
  • WCFI (1984–86)
  • WORZ (1986–88)
  • WJHM (1988–2016)
Call sign meaning
Former AMP Radio branding
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID73137
ClassC
ERP92,000 watts
HAAT483 meters (1,585 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
28°55′10″N 81°19′08″W / 28.91944°N 81.31889°W / 28.91944; -81.31889
Links
Public license information
Webcast
Websitewww.audacy.com/fm1019

WQMP (101.9

radio station licensed to Daytona Beach serving the Orlando and Space Coast areas of Central Florida. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock format branded as "FM 101.9". Its studios are located in Maitland and the transmitter is in Orange City
. To the north, the station can be heard as far as St. Augustine, to the south, the station can be heard as far as Palm Bay and is one of the few Orlando stations that covers Ocala.

History

Early years

The 101.9 frequency began as WMFJ-FM on November 1,

Album Oriented Rock as Q102.[3] Despite the rock format's success, management felt that a top 40 hit station would have more mass appeal, and so Q102 changed from rock to Top 40 in 1976; initially the station remained automated, but by the end of the 1970s it employed a staff of live and local announcers. The station changed its calls to WDOQ in 1980, but the format remained top 40, the moniker remained Q102, and the ratings remained high. Due to new competition in the Daytona market from WNFI in 1982, Q102 began to more aggressively target the Orlando market as opposed to only Daytona Beach. Although plans for a big 100,000-watt signal that would have extended to St. Augustine, Gainesville and Ocala were scrapped, WDOQ's listenership continued to grow.[4]

In 1984, WDOQ was sold and adopted the new calls WCFI, with a satellite-fed

calls changed again to WORZ, Z-102FM, a classic rock station.[6] In 1987, it was sold to Beasley-Reed Broadcasting for $9.2 million.[7]

102 Jamz

On April 1, 1988, the call letters were changed to WJHM, and the station adopted a

urban AC
format, resulting in WJHM shifting to urban altogether.

The late 1990s brought a time of mergers with Chancellor merging with Evergreen and forming AMFM, Inc., who hold ownership of WJHM until it merged with

Cox Radio
). Although it was one of the top ranking radio stations in the market, WJHM suffered the rare setback of ranking behind WPYO in the Arbitron ratings, rare to have an Urban format rank behind a Rhythmic.

WJHM's logo under previous "102 JAMZ" branding

In the fall of

WOMX, WJHM's sister station. By February 22, 2012, the station completed the shift to Rhythmic Top 40, joining the market's existing rhythmic WPYO as Nielsen BDS moved it to the Top40/Rhythmic panel citing a low emphasis on urban contemporary tracks and since making the transition adding more Pop tracks. Along with these changes, it dropped the Sunday morning gospel
programming syndicated from WVEE, although WJHM's HD2 subchannel broadcasts a Gospel format full-time.

Between 2000 and early 2012, WJHM was one of CBS Radio's only young demographic-targeting Urban stations along with

Radio One having WKYS and WERQ-FM
directly competing in the area. WPGC returned to the BDS Rhythmic reporting panel in June 2012.

101-9 AMP Radio

Logo of AMP Radio (2014-2017)

On February 11, 2014, in the early morning hours, WJHM dropped the "Jamz" branding after 26 years and began stunting with a loop of the song "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. At 10:19 that morning, WJHM rebranded as 101.9 AMP Radio and shifted to top 40/CHR altogether, putting it in line with CBS Radio's "AMP Radio" branding, which favors rhythmic pop and dance hits. The first song on "AMP Radio" was "Timber" by Pitbull featuring Kesha.[14][15] Despite the rebranding, WJHM continued to lag in Arbitron ratings behind CHR competitor WXXL and rhythmic CHR station WPYO.[16]

On January 20, 2016, WJHM changed its call letters to WQMP to match the "AMP Radio" branding.

On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with

Entercom.[17] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.[18][19]

Alt 101-9/FM 101-9

On November 29, 2017, at 3 p.m., after playing “End Game” by Taylor Swift, WQMP flipped to alternative rock as Alt 101-9, joining several other former "AMP Radio"-branded stations in switching to the format and brand after the completion of the Entercom merger. The change brought the format back to a full-market signal in Orlando for the first time since 2008, when sister station WOCL flipped to classic hits. The first song on Alt was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. The most recent analog broadcast station to air the format full-time, Cox Media's W297BB/WCFB-HD2, was aired on a translator and an HD sub-channel, and aired from June 2014 to January 2016. Elsewhere in the Orlando market, iHeartMedia's talk-formatted WTKS-FM features alternative on nights and weekends, and is also aired on two HD subchannels in the Orlando market, WOCL HD2 and WJRR HD3, the latter of which also uses the brand Alt as standardized by iHeartMedia; this name conflict resulted in WQMP quietly changing its on-air brand to FM 101-9 on December 4 that year.[20][21]

In September 2020, most of the local DJs and programming staff were laid off and replaced by out-of-market programming.[22]


HD Radio subchannels

WQMP-HD2

WQMP activated its HD2 subchannel at the same time it started its HD radio operations at some point in the mid-2000s, which originally carried an

LGBTQ-oriented talk/dance music format based in Los Angeles.[23] Since the HD2 stream did not appear on the station, it was placed on the HD2 subchannel of sister station WOMX-FM in early November 2019. The HD2 stream then reappeared later in 2020 carrying an alternative format featuring new releases, known as "Orlando’s New Arrivals". On February 23, 2022, WQMP-HD2 flipped to Audacy's in-house BetQL Network.[24]

WQMP-HD3

As of July 2019, WQMP-HD3 was carrying a Haitian format from an unknown source. The HD2 and HD3 subchannels were removed around early 2020. In late 2020, the HD3 subchannel reappeared and became the new home for "Channel Q" in Orlando after being dropped by WOMX-FM’s HD2 subchannel at some point in early-to-mid 2020. In January 2022, “Channel Q” returned to WOMX-HD2, which led to the HD3 subchannel becoming a secondary feed for Audacy’s New Arrivals. The HD3 subchannel was turned off until later in 2023, where the Haitian-language radio format returned on the HD3 sub channel after a 3-year hiatus. It was turned off again as of early 2024.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WQMP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "WMFJ-FM 101.9 Daytona Beach". cflradio.net. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  3. ^ "WQXQ-FM 101.9 Daytona Beach". cflradio.net. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  4. ^ "WDOQ-FM 101.9 Daytona Beach". cflradio.net. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  5. ^ "WCFI-FM 101.9 Daytona Beach". cflradio.net. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  6. ^ "WORZ-FM 101.9 Daytona Beach". cflradio.net. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  7. ^ "Archives: OrlandoSentinel.com - WORZ SALE ON DESPITE SNAGS FINANCING SLOWS DOWN ACQUISITION". PQArchiver.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  8. ^ "Archives: OrlandoSentinel.com - NEW WORZ READY TO SHAKE THINGS UP". PQArchiver.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  9. ^ "AddBoard - Sign In". MediaBase.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  10. ^ "AddBoard - Sign In". MediaBase.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  11. ^ "Smiley Out As 102 Jamz Makes Changes" from All Access (January 30, 2012)
  12. ^ "Jay Love And WJHM Split After 18 Years In Orlando" from All Access (January 27, 2012)
  13. ^ "CBS Radio stations". CBS Radio.
  14. ^ "WJHM Relaunches As 101.9 Amp Radio - RadioInsight". RadioInsight.com. 11 February 2014. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  15. ^ "101.9 WJHM AMP Radio" (MP3). Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  16. ^ "RADIO ONLINE ®". Radio-Online.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  17. ^ "CBS Radio To Merge With Entercom - RadioInsight". radioinsight.com. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  18. ^ "Entercom Receives FCC Approval for Merger with CBS Radio". Entercom. November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  19. ^ Venta, Lance (November 17, 2017). "Entercom Completes CBS Radio Merger". Radio Insight. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  20. ^ Alt 101.9 Orlando Quickly Rebrands as FM 101.9 Radioinsight - December 4, 2017
  21. ^ "101.9 Amp Radio Orlando Joins Alternative Movement - RadioInsight". radioinsight.com. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  22. ^ "Entercom's New Alternative On-Air Lineups". 14 September 2020.
  23. ^ "Entercom Expands Channel Q to Nine More Markets". 15 August 2019.
  24. ^ "Audacy Adds The Bet In Eight More Markets". RadioInsight. 23 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-23.

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