WKQI
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| City | Detroit, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area |
Metro Detroit Windsor, Ontario |
| Branding | Channel 955 |
| Slogan |
Detroit's Hit Music Detroit's #1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency | 95.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | February 12, 1949 |
| Format |
Top 40 (CHR) (Analog/HD1) Feel Tha Funk (funk/soul) (HD2) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 130 meters (430 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 6592 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°28′22″N 83°11′59″W / 42.47278°N 83.19972°W |
| Former callsigns | 1985-1989: WCZY-FM 1980-1985: WCZY 1949-1980: WLDM |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C.) |
| Sister stations | WDFN, WDTW-FM, WJLB, WMXD, WNIC |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Channel 95.5 |
WKQI is an FM radio station serving Detroit, Michigan. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts a rhythmic-leaning contemporary hit radio format branded as Channel 955 (pronounced "nine-five-five"). WKQI transmits its signal with an effective radiated power of 100,000 watts from an antenna 430 feet in height located at the intersection of Greenfield Road and 10 Mile Road in suburban Oak Park in Oakland County, and has studios in Farmington Hills.
WKQI began in February 1949 as an unaffiliated classical outlet, WLDM. Although a few Andre Kostelanetz, Morton Gould, and Percy Faith light music recordings were played, it was not until the station took up storecasting in 1951 that those and other popular orchestras were heard regularly, along with light classical and some classical music, as "albums in high-fidelity". Evenings were devoted to concert works. An audience of non-client listeners developed slowly, but when owner Lincoln Broadcasting Company moved the storecast to its subcarrier in late 1957 and rededicated the main channel solely to classical recordings, enough of an outcry arose that a substantial amount of daytime popular music was eventually restored. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the station enjoyed prestige as the area's premier purveyor of 'good music', adding Broadway showtunes selections from original cast albums, folk music, and other 'hi-fi' recordings, and later spoken-word and dramatic presentations. In 1961, WLDM increased its power and started broadcasting in stereo. Three years later, most of the classical shows were dropped in favor of beautiful music, a move that led to high ratings and greatly increased revenue for the remainder of the 1960s and much of the 1970s. WLDM was also an industry leader with technical improvements such as vertical signal polarization to improve reception on portable and car radios, and referred to itself as "America's Foremost FM Station".
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