WOTW (FM)
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| City | Windermere, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Orlando |
| Branding | 103.1 The Wolf |
| Slogan | Country Hits and Throwbacks |
| Frequency | 103.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 94.1 W231CT (Orlando, relays HD2) |
| First air date | 1966 (as WLOQ) |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Country HD2: Active rock "Bud 94.1" |
| ERP | 22,000 watts |
| HAAT | 227 metres (745 ft) |
| Class | C2 |
| Facility ID | 25403 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°33′32″N 81°35′39″W / 28.55889°N 81.59417°W |
| Former callsigns | WLOQ (1966-2011) WHKQ (2011-2014) |
| Owner |
JVC Media, LLC (JVC Media of Florida, LLC) |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Listen Live (HD2) |
| Website |
thewolf1031.com bud941.com (HD2) |
WOTW is a radio station currently airing a country music format. WOTW is licensed to Windermere, Florida and is serving the Orlando metropolitan area.
Originally, 103.1 was a smooth jazz station with the call letters WLOQ. It was the last independently owned radio station in Greater Orlando.
In 2011, after CEO John Gross retired for medical reasons, WLOQ was sold to TTB Media Corporation. At midnight on August 1, WLOQ signed off 103.1 after 35 years with "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, and WLOQ's smooth jazz format moved exclusively online. The station then began stunting with all-Elvis Presley as "Elvis 103.1". On August 3 at 9PM, the station flipped to Spanish CHR as KQ103, launching with 20,000 songs in a row.
On August 1, 2011, WLOQ changed their call letters to WHKQ. The WLOQ branding and smooth jazz format continues as an internet-only radio station, at WLOQRadio.com. The WLOQ branding was revived in August on a translator, 102.5 W273CA in Orlando, with a simulcast of 107.7 WMGF-HD2's Smooth Jazz format.
On September 5, 2014, JVC Media, a New York-based broadcasting company that has been expanding its portfolio of radio properties in Florida, acquired WHKQ from TTB. JVC Media's owner, Vic Latino, has a radio history in the Orlando radio market as an alumnus of WPYO during its early years as a dance outlet. That same month, two websites were registered possibly showing JVC, upon closing the sale, may flip WHKQ to country as My Country 103.1 to go up against longtime giant K92.3. Other websites registered showed WHKQ possibly flipping to Dance as Party 103.1. JVC has also requested to change the station's call letters to WOTW.
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