WHQT
Encyclopedia
WHQT, Hot 105FM, is an Urban Adult Contemporary
-formatted radio station
owned by Cox Media Group
that serves the South Florida region. WHQT is licensed
to Coral Gables
, but its studios are located in Hollywood
along with its sister stations WEDR
, WFLC
, and WFEZ. It broadcasts on the class C0 105.1 MHz frequency with an ERP
of 100,000 watts (100 kilowatts) from a transmitter site that is shares with sister station WEDR
near Opa Locka
, as well as ten other FM radio stations and several TV stations.
Classic Soul Reunion Weekends Theme (Best of the 70's, 80's and 90's R&B)
Saturdays
Sundays
Program Director Phil Michaels-Trueba;
General Sales Manager Mumball;
Promotions Director Janine DuPont;
Urban Production Director Marc Young
ed soft instrumental music with sister station, WVCG(AM), the "Voice of Coral Gables". Then, as WYOR, "YOuR beautiful music station", had a foreground
music format. For many years they enjoyed a grandfathered
license which allowed them to transmit with an effective radiated power of 160,000 watts but with an antenna center of radiation under sixty meters (200 feet) height above average terrain. This ended when they relocated the transmitter to a more advantageous location in downtown Miami in the early 1970s. As WYOR, the station promoted themselves with an updated FM radio dial card each year.
WHQT, Hot 105FM. It started out as a Top 40 CHR with Nolan Thomas' "Yo Little Brutha" as the first song. The station's initial musical slant was described as "triethnic", playing a heavy dose of Urban Contemporary, Hispanic targeted dance, and some Mainstream Top 40 hits targeted at the varied Miami young audience. By 1987, WHQT had evolved towards Mainstream Top 40, playing a larger dose of Mainstream Pop from artists popular at the time such as Rick Astley, Madonna and even rocker Def Leppard. A notable feature of the station during this era was a complete DJ-less music-intensive daypart from 9am to 5pm, predating the current trend in automated "jockless" radio. However, with fierce competition from Y-100 and Power 96, and facing a market with an inherently large ethnic slant, Hot 105 dropped Top 40 in favor of urban in late 1988 as "The Fresh New Sound Of Hot 105". Its main competitor was future sister station, "WEDR, 99 Jamz", and the two stations competed over the 18-49 African American
demographic until 1992, when WHQT evolved to Urban Adult Contemporary. Around that time Cox purchased both stations which led to the end of their competition. Hot 105 is one of the original affiliates of the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show when it debuted in 1994. For some time it was the only R&B/Soul station in the market until October 2006
when it gained competition from Clear Channel's
WMIB, an Urban/Hip Hop-turned-AC station. Prior to WMIB's flip to urban AC, WHQT still had WMIB as a competitor, even though it also competed up against Clear Channel's other radio station, WLVE (formerly smooth jazz
and now rhythmic AC as WMIA-FM). WMIB has since expanded back to Urban Contemporary as of late 2008
. With WMIB flipping to Spanish on May 14, 2010
, WHQT competes solely up against Clear Channel's WMIA-FM.
Bob McKay
Bill Tanner
Keith Isley
Hector Hannibal
Tony Kidd
Derrick Brown
Tony Fields
Urban Adult Contemporary
Urban adult contemporary is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. Radio stations using this format usually would not have rap music on their playlists. The format was designed by Barry Mayo when he, Lee S. Simonson and Bill Pearson organized Broadcast...
-formatted radio station
Radio station
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owned by Cox Media Group
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, United States, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. He was the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States in the election of 1920...
that serves the South Florida region. WHQT is licensed
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
to Coral Gables
Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Downtown Miami, in the United States. The city is home to the University of Miami....
, but its studios are located in Hollywood
Hollywood, Florida
-Demographics:As of 2000, there were 59,673 households out of which 24.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.5% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.2% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of...
along with its sister stations WEDR
WEDR
WEDR is an urban-formatted radio station serving the South Florida region and licensed to Miami, Florida. WEDR has an unusually wide music selection for a mainstream urban-formatted radio station that ranges from typical hip-hop and R&B to reggaeton. This is because South Florida is a very...
, WFLC
WFLC
WFLC is an Adult Contemporary music formatted radio station in Miami, Florida. The station is owned by Cox Radio. It plays music from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, except on weekends, when it plays only 1980s music as part of the "Totally 80s Weekends"...
, and WFEZ. It broadcasts on the class C0 105.1 MHz frequency with an ERP
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...
of 100,000 watts (100 kilowatts) from a transmitter site that is shares with sister station WEDR
WEDR
WEDR is an urban-formatted radio station serving the South Florida region and licensed to Miami, Florida. WEDR has an unusually wide music selection for a mainstream urban-formatted radio station that ranges from typical hip-hop and R&B to reggaeton. This is because South Florida is a very...
near Opa Locka
Opa-locka, Florida
Opa-locka is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. As of the mid decade census, the population was 15,376 as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau....
, as well as ten other FM radio stations and several TV stations.
Show Line-Up
Weekdays- 5am-6am The Best of The Tom Joyner Morning Show
- 6am-10am The Tom Joyner Morning Show
- 10am-3pm James T
- 3pm-7pm The Michael Baisden Show
- 7pm-11pm The Quiet Storm with Freddie Cruz
Classic Soul Reunion Weekends Theme (Best of the 70's, 80's and 90's R&B)
Saturdays
- 8am-10am Tom Joyner's Right back'atcha
- 10am-2pm Lady D
- 2pm-6pm Chico The Virgo
- 6pm-10pm Michael D'Angelo
- 10pm-1am Reggae Runnin's with Tanto Irie and Lady English
Sundays
- 5am-7am Walt "Baby" Love's Gospel Traxx
- 7am-12n Sunday Morning Joy with Paula
- 12n-5pm Chico The Virgo
- 5pm-8pm Marc Young
- 8pm-11pm The Old School Quiet Storm with AC
- 11pm-1am Hot Talk with Chief Jimmy Brown (Local community affairs program Producer by Missey Bailey)
Current Management
VP/GM/Market Manager Jerry Rushin;Program Director Phil Michaels-Trueba;
General Sales Manager Mumball;
Promotions Director Janine DuPont;
Urban Production Director Marc Young
Early history
WHQT's original call sign was WVCG-FM and simulcastSimulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
ed soft instrumental music with sister station, WVCG(AM), the "Voice of Coral Gables". Then, as WYOR, "YOuR beautiful music station", had a foreground
Background music
Although background music was by the end of the 20th century generally identified with Muzak or elevator music, there are several stages in the development of this concept.-Antecedents:...
music format. For many years they enjoyed a grandfathered
Grandfather clause
Grandfather clause is a legal term used to describe a situation in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations, while a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to grandfather means to grant such an exemption...
license which allowed them to transmit with an effective radiated power of 160,000 watts but with an antenna center of radiation under sixty meters (200 feet) height above average terrain. This ended when they relocated the transmitter to a more advantageous location in downtown Miami in the early 1970s. As WYOR, the station promoted themselves with an updated FM radio dial card each year.
Hot 105
On January 10, 1985 at 6 a.m., low-rated AC station, WEZI, E-Z 105 changed format and calls to urban contemporaryUrban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
WHQT, Hot 105FM. It started out as a Top 40 CHR with Nolan Thomas' "Yo Little Brutha" as the first song. The station's initial musical slant was described as "triethnic", playing a heavy dose of Urban Contemporary, Hispanic targeted dance, and some Mainstream Top 40 hits targeted at the varied Miami young audience. By 1987, WHQT had evolved towards Mainstream Top 40, playing a larger dose of Mainstream Pop from artists popular at the time such as Rick Astley, Madonna and even rocker Def Leppard. A notable feature of the station during this era was a complete DJ-less music-intensive daypart from 9am to 5pm, predating the current trend in automated "jockless" radio. However, with fierce competition from Y-100 and Power 96, and facing a market with an inherently large ethnic slant, Hot 105 dropped Top 40 in favor of urban in late 1988 as "The Fresh New Sound Of Hot 105". Its main competitor was future sister station, "WEDR, 99 Jamz", and the two stations competed over the 18-49 African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
demographic until 1992, when WHQT evolved to Urban Adult Contemporary. Around that time Cox purchased both stations which led to the end of their competition. Hot 105 is one of the original affiliates of the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show when it debuted in 1994. For some time it was the only R&B/Soul station in the market until October 2006
2006 in radio
The year 2006 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.-Events:*January 3 - The BJ Shea Morning Experience switches to KISW in Seattle, Washington, from the former FM Talk station KKWF....
when it gained competition from Clear Channel's
Clear Channel Communications
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WMIB, an Urban/Hip Hop-turned-AC station. Prior to WMIB's flip to urban AC, WHQT still had WMIB as a competitor, even though it also competed up against Clear Channel's other radio station, WLVE (formerly smooth jazz
Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....
and now rhythmic AC as WMIA-FM). WMIB has since expanded back to Urban Contemporary as of late 2008
2008 in radio
Several events occurred in radio in 2008.- Events :* January 2: WWFT finished Christmas music stunting, rolling out the red carpet for Adult contemporary music branded as "Warm."...
. With WMIB flipping to Spanish on May 14, 2010
2010 in radio
The following events occurred in radio in 2010.-Events:*Date Unknown: CHOI/Quebec City flips from Alternative Rock to News/Talk.*January 4: KJCS/Lufkin, Texas goes silent....
, WHQT competes solely up against Clear Channel's WMIA-FM.
Former Program Directors
Jeff TysonBob McKay
Bill Tanner
Keith Isley
Hector Hannibal
Tony Kidd
Derrick Brown
Tony Fields