WQAL
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| City | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area |
Greater Cleveland Northeast Ohio |
| Branding | The New Q-104 |
| Slogan | Plays The Hits! |
| Frequency | 104.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | April 1948 |
| Format |
Hot AC HD2: New CHR |
| ERP | 12,000 watts |
| HAAT | 293 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 72889 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°20′28.00″N 81°44′24.00″W / 41.3411111°N 81.7400000°W |
| Callsign meaning | QuALity |
| Former callsigns | WJW-FM (1948–65) WCJW (1965–71) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (CBS Radio Stations Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WDOK, WKRK-FM, WNCX |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Q 104 |
WQAL (104.1 FM) – branded Q104 – is a commercial hot adult contemporary radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio. Owned by CBS Radio, the station serves Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. The WQAL studios are located at the Halle Building in Downtown Cleveland, while the station transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of North Royalton. Besides a standard analog transmission, WQAL broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online.
WQAL began in April 1948 as WJW-FM as the FM sister station to WJW (850 AM). The new FM station went on the air just as the Cleveland Indians began their world championship season. WJW was the flagship of a six-station Ohio network that carried the games in 1947 and 1948. However, the full games were often carried on WJW-FM, since the AM outlet did not have available air time due to its ABC network commitments. As a result, Cleveland became an FM hot bed, and more FM radio sets sold in Cleveland than in any other market in the country in 1948.
Storer Broadcasting sold off WJW-FM sometime in the mid-1960s. Following the sale, the station changed its callsign to WCJW.
WCJW changed its callsign to WQAL on May 12, 1971 after 106.1 FM in Philadelphia gave it up. The WQAL calls also had an unrelated history on an early AM radio station in Mattoon, Illinois, which signed on in 1921 and shut down one year later. The meaning for the Cleveland call letters – "Quality Music" or "Quality Listening" – was carried over from the Philadelphia station.
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