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WERQ-FM
WERQ-FM (92.3 FM) is a commercial radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. It features an urban contemporary radio format and is owned by Urban One of Silver Spring, Maryland, the largest broadcasting company serving African American audiences in the United States. The radio studios are located in Woodlawn (they were previously located at Cathy Hughes Plaza in downtown Baltimore).
WERQ-FM has an effective radiated power of 37,000 watts. The transmitter is on Park Heights Avenue at Boarman Avenue in the Park Heights section of Baltimore. WERQ-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology; the HD2 digital subchannel carries urban gospel programming from co-owned WWIN, while the HD3 subchannel simulcasts the black talk programming of WOLB.
The station signed on the air on January 30, 1961. WYOU was the sister station to WSID (1010 AM), initially using a call sign that owner United Broadcasting had previously used at a station it had just sold in Virginia. On October 2, 1961, WYOU became WSID-FM, reflecting its affiliated AM outlet. Because the AM station was a daytimer, during its first few years, WSID-FM would simulcast much of WSID's urban contemporary programming in mono. After sunset, the programming continued on the FM station only and it would sign off at midnight.
By September 1968, WSID-FM broke away from the AM programs for several hours each day for a separate underground rock format, which was gradually expanded to full-time by the end of the year.
The call letters for the station under the new rock format became WLPL. The WLPL call sign stood for Wonderful Land of Pleasant Listening. In 1969, WLPL expanded its operating hours to full-time, while shifting toward a mixture of Top 40 and album rock musical selections.
By 1972, the station made a transition to a full-time Top 40 format and began broadcasting in FM stereo. WLPL was a popular Top 40 station under the management of its founder, United Broadcasting Company (UBC) of Bethesda, Maryland. In 1977, WLPL-FM Program Director Bill Parris was named "Major Market Top 40 Program Director of The Year" by the Billboard magazine, largely due to his work at WLPL.
Notable personalities during this period were Kris Earl Phillips, The "Smoker", Casey Jones, Hal Martin, Michael St. John (John Moen), and Gary Michaels aka The Boogie Man (Gary Rau).
However, ratings deteriorated when WBSB (now WZFT) launched in 1980, as "B104" with a similar Top 40 format. WLPL was forced to operate under reduced transmitter power during this period, due to a fire in the station's broadcast tower equipment.
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WERQ-FM
WERQ-FM (92.3 FM) is a commercial radio station in Baltimore, Maryland. It features an urban contemporary radio format and is owned by Urban One of Silver Spring, Maryland, the largest broadcasting company serving African American audiences in the United States. The radio studios are located in Woodlawn (they were previously located at Cathy Hughes Plaza in downtown Baltimore).
WERQ-FM has an effective radiated power of 37,000 watts. The transmitter is on Park Heights Avenue at Boarman Avenue in the Park Heights section of Baltimore. WERQ-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology; the HD2 digital subchannel carries urban gospel programming from co-owned WWIN, while the HD3 subchannel simulcasts the black talk programming of WOLB.
The station signed on the air on January 30, 1961. WYOU was the sister station to WSID (1010 AM), initially using a call sign that owner United Broadcasting had previously used at a station it had just sold in Virginia. On October 2, 1961, WYOU became WSID-FM, reflecting its affiliated AM outlet. Because the AM station was a daytimer, during its first few years, WSID-FM would simulcast much of WSID's urban contemporary programming in mono. After sunset, the programming continued on the FM station only and it would sign off at midnight.
By September 1968, WSID-FM broke away from the AM programs for several hours each day for a separate underground rock format, which was gradually expanded to full-time by the end of the year.
The call letters for the station under the new rock format became WLPL. The WLPL call sign stood for Wonderful Land of Pleasant Listening. In 1969, WLPL expanded its operating hours to full-time, while shifting toward a mixture of Top 40 and album rock musical selections.
By 1972, the station made a transition to a full-time Top 40 format and began broadcasting in FM stereo. WLPL was a popular Top 40 station under the management of its founder, United Broadcasting Company (UBC) of Bethesda, Maryland. In 1977, WLPL-FM Program Director Bill Parris was named "Major Market Top 40 Program Director of The Year" by the Billboard magazine, largely due to his work at WLPL.
Notable personalities during this period were Kris Earl Phillips, The "Smoker", Casey Jones, Hal Martin, Michael St. John (John Moen), and Gary Michaels aka The Boogie Man (Gary Rau).
However, ratings deteriorated when WBSB (now WZFT) launched in 1980, as "B104" with a similar Top 40 format. WLPL was forced to operate under reduced transmitter power during this period, due to a fire in the station's broadcast tower equipment.