WQQO
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| City | Sylvania, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Toledo metropolitan area |
| Branding | Q105.5 |
| Slogan | Toledo's Best Music! |
| Frequency | 105.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 100.7 W264AK (Toledo, relays HD2) |
| First air date | November 29, 1968 (as WGLN) |
| Format |
Hot Adult Contemporary HD2: Talk "Talk Radio 100.7" |
| ERP | 4,300 watts |
| HAAT | 118.7 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 42127 |
| Former callsigns | WGLN (1968-1972) WXEZ (1972-1982) WWWM (1982-1990) WWWM-FM (1990-2016) |
| Affiliations | Michigan IMG Sports Network (HD2) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC) |
| Sister stations | WKKO, WTOD, WLQR, WRQN, WMIM, WXKR |
| Webcast | Click "play" button on website |
| Website | Q105.5.com |
WQQO (105.5 FM) is an American radio station licensed to Sylvania, Ohio and broadcasting as part of the Toledo market.
"Q105.5", as the station is known, carries a Hot Adult Contemporary format. The format changed to mainstream Top 40 on March 19, 2012 but as of June 2014 has reverted to Hot AC.
WQQO transmits in HD Radio: The HD2 channel carries a Talk radio format known as "Talk Radio 100.7", which feeds analog translator W264AK.
The 105.5 MHz spot on the radio dial in the Toledo area began in November 1968 as WGLN, located in a cornfield in western Lucas County, the remote studio-transmitter location was the home of the "Jones Boys", a concept introduced in Toledo by station manager and native Toledoan Michael Drew Shaw. Like WTRX in Flint, Michigan where Shaw had been program director several years before being named manager at WGLN, every DJ used the last name Jones. Among the more notable, Davy Jones, Casey Jones, Tom Jones, and John Paul Jones. More notable D.J.s sporting the name JONES were Joe Hood, Steve Wright, Earl Sharninghouse, and Klaus Helfers, The station featured country music - the first such FM station in the market - and broadcast live performances.
After a few months, WGLN became as "Golden 105," featuring a primarily oldies playlist with a sprinkling of current hits introduced with the tagline "Here today, Golden tomorrow." Then in late 1971, the format shifted to progressive rock. It was Toledo's first so-called underground FM station playing the songs and deep album cuts that no one else in the market was playing at the time. The station, however, was later sold in 1972 to Midwest Broadcasting and by spring of that year, 105.5 FM became a beautiful music station with the callsign of WXEZ. In response to the format change, a citizens' group known as the Citizens' Committee to Keep Progressive Rock filed an objection with the FCC on the basis that Toledo already had several other middle-of-the-road/easy listening-type format stations and did not need another; the FCC rejected the appeal, and the committee continued to appeal the rejection until the Reams family changed WCWA-FM 104.7 to WIOT in December 1972, after which the objection was withdrawn. The original airstaff of WIOT featured several former WGLN staffers from the progressive-rock format.
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