- This page is about the existing television station in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state For the previous occupant of channel 61 in Cleveland, see WKBF-TV. This article is about the former television station in Cleveland Ohio
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| Branding | Univision 61 |
| Channels | Analog: 61 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Univision |
| Owner | Univision Communications, Inc. (Univision Cleveland, LLC) |
| First air date | January 13, 1981 |
| Call letters’ meaning | HS = Home Shopping Network |
| Former callsigns | WCLQ-TV (1981-1986) WQHS (1986-1992) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1981-1986) HSN (1986-2002) |
| Transmitter Power | 2000 kW (analog) 525 kW (digital) |
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| Facility ID | 60556 |
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WQHS-TV is a Spanish-language television station owned and operated by and affiliated with Univision. The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States and Puerto Rico. It is licensed to serve the Cleveland, Ohio television market, and broadcasts on UHF channel 61 with studios and offices in Parma. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Parma is a City in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States and the largest Suburb of Cleveland. It is also one of three stations with the Univision affiliation, alongside WUDT-CA in Detroit, Michigan and KUNS-TV in Seattle, Washington in markets bordering Canada. WUDT-CA, in Detroit Michigan, is a low-power affiliate of the Univision Spanish-language television network KUNS-TV "Univision Seattle" is a full-power commercial television station licensed to Bellevue Washington.
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History
WKBF
A previous license owned by Kaiser Broadcasting occupied Channel 61 as WKBF from 1968 to 1975. This article is about the former television station in Cleveland Ohio Kaiser Broadcasting was the name of an entity that owned and operated Broadcast television stations in the United States from 1958 to 1977 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 some popular off-network shows, WKBF struggled for the majority of its existence due to poor revenue growth. It failed to achieve profitability while competiting against rival station WUAB-TV, which signed on at the same time as WKBF. WUAB, identified on-air as "My43 WUAB" is the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Cleveland Ohio. By 1975, Kaiser Broadcasting sold off WKBF's assets to WUAB's owner United Artists Broadcasting, and purchased a minority ownership in the station (which was relinqished when WUAB was sold to Gaylord Broadcasting and when Kaiser merged with Field Communications; both of which occurred in 1977). This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. Gaylord Entertainment Company ( operates a number of Hotel, Resort, and media companies that was built by Edward Gaylord. Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News
Kaiser then signed Channel 61 off the air and returned the license to the Federal Communications Commission. WKBF was one of two stations in the Kaiser Broadcasting chain to cease operations permanently; the other was Philadelphia station WKBS in 1983. The call sign WKBS-TV was formerly used for an independent station in Philadelphia Pennsylvania; for that station please see WKBS-TV (Philadelphia
1975 to 1980: The dark years
Rumors abounded concerning potential companies that could file for the Channel 61 license in Cleveland, yet none came forward right away. After a few years, the FCC began to accept applications for channel 61 (as a distinctly separate license from WKBF), and Balaban Stations won the license in 1980.
1980 to Present: New license, new owners
The current licensed station signed on in March of 1981. The call letters assigned to the new licensee was WCLQ. The Channel 61 logo was similar to WKBF's design, but with a neon glow effect. This station too was classified as "independent" as it did not carry a national network. The air time was filled with general entertainment programming and ran a mix of classic cartoons, hour long off network dramas, westerns, sitcoms, and other syndicated programs. The station did gain profitability, unlike its predecessor. This may have been initially due to the evening program service that was not free to air, but the Preview over-the-air scrambled subscription television service; Preview was discontinued in 1983. Preview was a Subscription television service started in 1980 similar to ON TV and Select TV. WCLQ was sold to Channel Communications in 1984.
In 1985, WOIO and WBNX both signed on with entertainment formats to create further competition, which took viewers away from WCLQ. WBNX-TV is the CW television affiliate serving the Cleveland Ohio Television market broadcasting on channel 55 (analog and channel 30 (digital WOIO surpassed WCLQ in the ratings immediately. WBNX struggled and ran a lot of paid programming. But it became apparent that Cleveland was unable to support four independent stations. As a result, WCLQ began to lose money, and Channel Communications decided to put WCLQ up for sale in May 1986. The station began running Home Shopping Network programming from midnight to 6 a. The old Home Shopping Network (HSN was mostly a 24-hour basic cable shopping network that could be seen seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial m. earlier that year, and in the summer it also began to air from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. In August, HSN's broadcasting arm (Silver King Television) bought WCLQ. The old Home Shopping Network (HSN was mostly a 24-hour basic cable shopping network that could be seen seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial In September, WCLQ began to run HSN programming 18 hours a day, while the independent format continued to air from 4 to 10 p. m.
Once the sale was finalized in November 1986, WCLQ changed its call letters to WQHS-TV. The independent format was completely dropped, with HSN programs being shown 24/7 from February 1987 to January 2002. WBNX picked up much of WCLQ's syndicated programming including cartoons.
Plans emerged in the late 1990s to return WQHS-TV to the independent format by 2002. However, USA Broadcasting decided that it would be better to sell and almost sold WQHS to ABC/Disney in 2000, but ended up being outbid by Univision. USA Network (commonly referred to as USA) is an American Cable television channel with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005 The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States and Puerto Rico. As a result, WQHS-TV adopted the Univision Network programming in January 2002. The station continues to serve Northern Ohio as its only Spanish language station.
External links
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WQHS-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WQHS-TV
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