City | Evanston, Illinois |
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Broadcast area | Metro Chicago |
Branding | La Que Buena 105.1 |
Slogan | Con Orgullo Mexicano (With Mexican Pride) |
Frequency | 105.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
Format | Regional Mexican; Soon to be Classic hip hop as "105.1 THE BOUNCE" HD-2 for WVIV/WVIX simulcast; HD-3 for WRTO-AM simulcast |
Audience share | 4.2 (Sp'08, R&R[1]) |
ERP | 5,700 watts |
HAAT | 425 meters |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 67073 |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°53′56.00″N 87°37′23.00″W / 41.8988889°N 87.6230556°W |
Owner | Univision Radio (Tichenor License Corporation) |
Sister stations | WOJO, WPPN, WRTO-AM, WVIV Also part of the Univision Cluster: TV Stations WXFT and WGBO |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | WOJO website |
WOJO (105.1 FM) "La Que Buena 105.1" is a radio station broadcasting a regional Mexican format. Licensed to Evanston, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Tichenor License Corporation.[2][3]
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HD Programming
The station is also broadcast on HD radio.[4] As of January 2016,
- HD1 is a digital simulcast of the traditional (analog) broadcast.
- HD2 is a simulcast of "Latino Mix" WVIV/WVIX-FM.
- HD3 is a simulcast of Spanish news/talk sister station WRTO-AM [5]
Radio Maria Chicago, a Spanish-language unit of Radio Maria USA, a Catholic radio network, is also broadcast on WOJO's FM subcarrier. Radio Maria Chicago commenced broadcasting on the WOJO subcarrier and online on December 8, 2008.
History
The station began broadcasting as WEAW in 1947, named for owner Edward A. Wheeler. The call sign officially became WEAW-FM in 1953 when a companion AM station was launched. WEAW-FM carried a variety of programs aimed at the Evanston community and brokered ethnic broadcasts, but most of its revenue came from leasing its subcarriers to Muzak and other users.
In 1969 one of station owner Wheeler's companies secured the rights to manage the transmission tower atop the new John Hancock Center in Chicago. WEAW-FM began transmitting from the Hancock in 1970. In 1971 and 1972 the station was the flagship of the Chicago White Sox radio network. By late 1972 most of the station's programming was in Spanish, and its callsign was changed to WOJO. In 1983 WOJO was sold to Tichenor Media, which merged into current owner Univision Radio in 1997.
105.1 The Bounce [Classic Hip hop]
Station management been considering flipping 105.1 FM WOJO Chicago to Classic hip hop as 105.1 FM THE BOUNCE - Chicago's Throwback hip Hop and R&B, the same format that is currently on the 105.1 FM WMGC-FM frequency over 200 miles to the east of Chicago over in Detroit, Michigan. http://www.1051thebounce.com
References
- ^ "Chicago Market Ratings". Radio & Records.
- ^ "WOJO Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ "WOJO Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
- ^ "HD Radio Station Guide". HD Radio. iBiquity.
- ^ http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=25 HD Radio Guide for Chicago
External links
- Official site of WOJO "La Buena 105.1 FM" (with streaming audio)
- Official Radio Maria Chicago site (with streaming audio)
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WOJO
- Radio-Locator information on WOJO
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WOJO