WQOP
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| City | Jacksonville, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | Jacksonville, Florida |
| Branding | Queen of Peace Radio |
| Slogan | "Radio for Your Soul!" |
| Frequency | 1460 (kHz) |
| Format | Catholic |
| Power | 15,000 watts day 5,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 51976 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°19′40″N 81°44′49″W / 30.32778°N 81.74694°W |
| Former callsigns | WFYV (12/26/1987-7/5/1992) WZZN (7/5-9/1/1992) WZNZ (9/1/1992-6/14/2010) |
| Owner | Queen of Peace Radio, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WZNZ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.qopradio.com/ |
WQOP (1460 AM, "Queen of Peace Radio") is an American radio station licensed to serve Jacksonville, Florida. The station is owned by Queen of Peace Radio, Inc., and broadcasts a Catholic radio format.
In the late 1980s, WQOP was affiliated with Z-ROCK, a now-defunct network that aired a "Heavy Metal" music format.
From 1991 to 1997, WQOP operated with the call letters WFYV and was a news station, broadcasting CNN programming. Prior to that, it simulcast WFYV-FM ("Rock 105").
In 1996, this station was one of six stations in the Paxson Communications Jacksonville station group.
In September 1997, Paxson Jacksonville License, L.P., received a license to operate the station as WQOP to serve the Jacksonville, Florida area. The station was on the air as early as February.
As of January 1998, the station was owned or operated by Clear Channel Radio
In 1999, Concord Media, Inc. took over the station from Clear Channel Radio.
In 2001, the Concord Media Group-owned switched from a Contemporary Christian music format to a business-talk format.
In 2003, Salem Communications purchased the station from Concord Media Group as part of a four-station deal valued at $9.25 million. It retained the existing format. It switched to a sports talk format known as "Rumble 1460". As sports talk station, WQOP aired Jacksonville University baseball games as well as "Mike and Mike in the Mornings," "The Real Deal Show," "The Dan Patrick Show," and "The Frank Frangie Show."
In December 2006, Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting purchased the station as part of a three-station deal valued at $2.8 million. and referred to its programming as "The River of Life". The programming consisted of a mixture of local and syndicated religious oriented programming. The station remained an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network, a Major League Baseball affiliation that was leftover from the days when the station was a sports radio station. As of July 2008, the former website is still available (1460theriver.com).
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