WBQT (FM)

WBQT is a commercial radio station serving the Boston area on 96.9 FM, currently airing an urban-leaning Rhythmic contemporary format, branded as "Hot 96.9". Its studios are located in Dorchester and broadcasts from a transmitter atop the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

History

The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories and programmed a classical music format. In 1966, WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the Boston Globe and in 1967, became beautiful music station WJIB (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge). After several further ownership changes — first to General Electric in 1972, then to NBC in 1983 (three years before the merger between NBC's parent company, RCA, and GE) and Emmis Communications in 1988 — it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ, "CD96.9", beginning in 1990. After Greater Media bought the station in May 1993, the station began stunting with a simulcast of new sister station WMJX at 1 PM on May 4 of that year. Two days later, at 4 PM, WCDJ flipped to country as WBCS. The station became WKLB-FM in August 1996 after the previous WKLB-FM was bought by Greater Media and consolidated with WBCS, with its frequency being converted to WROR-FM. Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22, 1997 as WSJZ, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB). In September 1999, it flipped to Talk, completing a 4-month transition to the format. Shortly after the flip, the station changed its call letters to WTKK. During its tenure as a talk station, WTKK used several monikers: "96.9 FM Talk" from its 1999 launch until 2007, "96.9 WTKK: Boston's Talk Evolution" from 2007 until 2010, "96.9 Boston Talks" from 2010 until September 2012, and "News Talk 96.9" from September 2012 until its January 2013 demise.

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WWLP-DT2

WWLP-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WWLP (owned by Media General) and is part of the national CW Plus service. Over-the-air, it broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11.2 (or virtual channel 22.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Provin Mountain in Agawam's Feeding Hills section. Along with continuing to be carried by Comcast channel 16 standard definition (with an addition of a high definition feed on digital channel 820, as of April 1, 2015), WWLP-DT2 "The CW Springfield" can also continue to be seen on Charter on channel 13 standard definition (with an addition of a high definition feed on digital channel 788, as of Mid-April 2015); thus offering a high definition feed for The CW for the first time in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.

WWLP-DT2's parent station has studios at Broadcast Center in Chicopee's Sandy Hill section (next to the I-391 and MA 116 interchange). WWLP-DT2 is simulcasted over-the-air on a second subchannel of a Class A repeater, WFXQ-CD. This airs a low-powered digital signal on UHF channel 28.2 (also redirecting to virtual channel 22.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the old Mount Tom Ski Area summit in Holyoke.