WQLL
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| City | Pikesville, Maryland |
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| Broadcast area | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Branding | Q-1370 AM & 99.9 FM |
| Slogan | "Baltimore's Greatest Hits" |
| Frequency | 1370 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 99.9 W260BV (Aberdeen) |
| First air date | April 5, 1955 (as WEBB at AM 1360) |
| Format |
Oldies Classic Hits |
| Power | 50,000 watts day 24,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 27691 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
39°26′23″N 76°21′20″W / 39.43972°N 76.35556°W (day) 39°24′29″N 76°46′32″W / 39.40806°N 76.77556°W (night) |
| Former callsigns | WEBB (1955-1992) WHLP (1992-1993) WWLG (1993-2006) WVIE (2006-2012) |
| Former frequencies | 1955-2002: 1360 kHz |
| Owner | M-10 Broadcasting, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WCBM (AM 680) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | q1370.com |
WQLL (1370 AM, known on air and publicized since August 2012 as Q-1370 AM & 99.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Oldies & Classic Hits format. Licensed to Pikesville, Maryland, U.S.A., a northwest suburb of the city in Baltimore County, it serves the Baltimore metropolitan area.
The station is currently owned by M-10 Broadcasting, Inc. and features programming from Cumulus Media Networks and Fox Sports Radio. WQLL is the college sports flagship radio station for Towson University's Towson "Tigers" football and the UMBC "Retrievers" at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County's men's basketball teams. WQLL also airs Washington Wizards basketball in the National Basketball Association (N.B.A.) as an affiliate station.
The station signed on originally in 1955 as WEBB on 1360 kHz on the AM radio dial. It established a well-known reputation in the city's black population with its dynamic, memorable DJ's and pounding soul, blues, the Motown sound and other increasingly fractured sounds of developing rock music. In 1970, it was sold to famous entertainer and funk / soul music performer James Brown, (1933-2006), (later known as the "Godfather of Soul"!) who instituted an "Urban Contemporary" format and continued its popularity and competition among Baltimore's Afro-American black community. As a result of a bankruptcy proceeding, Brown sold WEBB to Dorothy E. Brunson, (1939-2011), in 1979. Brunson had formerly been a radio executive with the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation of New York City since 1973, where they owned five radio stations. Brunson would later sell her radio stations eleven years later, including WEBB, in 1990, in order to provide funds with her partnership/syndicate for her newly-purchased UHF television station, WGTW-TV (formerly WKBS - Channel 48) in Philadelphia becoming the first African-American woman to own a television station in America. The station's call sign was changed briefly to WHLP in 1992, and to WWLG in 1993. WWLG-AM operated with an "adult standards" format which included big band and swing music and some early jazz, first popularized in the 1930s and 1940s which had not been heard regularly over Baltimore's airwaves for several decades except for a short interlude earlier on competing WAYE (AM 860) in the late 1980s which then had billed itself as "Big Band 86". The station changed broadcast frequency a decade later from its longtime position on the dial at 1360 kHz to 1370 kHz on July 22, 2002, which allowed it to operate with increased power but with highly directional signals from separate day and night transmitter sites.
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