WQHS-DT
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Cleveland, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | Univision 61 |
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Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 61 () |
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Univision Communications (Univision Cleveland, LLC) |
| First air date | January 13, 1981 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Q carried over from former WCLQ calls, HS = Home Shopping Network |
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| Transmitter power | 525 kW |
| Height | 333.8 m (1,095 ft) |
| Facility ID | 60556 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°22′58″N 81°42′7″W / 41.38278°N 81.70194°WCoordinates: 41°22′58″N 81°42′7″W / 41.38278°N 81.70194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | [2] |
WQHS-DT, virtual channel 61 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Univision owned-and-operated television station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications. It is the only full-power Spanish-language television station in the state of Ohio. WQHS maintains studio/office and transmitter facilities located on West Ridgewood Drive in suburban Parma and is one of two Univision-owned or -affiliated stations, alongside KUNS-TV in Seattle, Washington, located in a media market that borders Canada, although neither are available on cable or satellite providers in that country.
A previous license owned by Kaiser Broadcasting occupied channel 61 as WKBF-TV from January 1968 to April 1975. It was the first actual independent station to sign on in Cleveland, and the first on the UHF dial. Despite some innovative local programming, and an inventory of some popular off-network shows, WKBF struggled for the majority of its existence due to poor revenue growth. The station failed to achieve profitability while competing against rival independent WUAB (channel 43), which signed on nine months after WKBF in September 1968. By 1975, Kaiser Broadcasting and its then-partner Field Communications sold off WKBF's assets to WUAB's owner United Artists Broadcasting, and purchased a minority ownership in the station (which was relinquished when WUAB was sold to Gaylord Broadcasting and when Kaiser fully merged with Field; both of which occurred in 1977).
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