1. History
    WLOQ Smooth Jazz  WHKQ Spanish Contemporary  WOTW Country 

2. Translator

3. References

4. External links

WOTW (103.1 MHz "The Wolf") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Windermere, Florida, and serving Greater Orlando. The station is owned by JVC Media, LLC, and it airs a country music radio format, mixing current and recent songs with past hits. Its slogan is "New Country + All Time Favorites."

The studios and offices are on Lucien Way in Maitland.^[1] The transmitter is on West Story Road in Winter Park, at Veterans Memorial Park.^[2]

WOTW broadcasts in the HD Radio format. Its HD2 subchannel carries a mainstream rock format known as "Bud 94.1”. Also, its HD3 subchannel carries a Regional Mexican format known as “Ok 93.5”. WOTW-HD2 is also heard on an FM translator, W231CT at 94.1 in Orlando.^[3] WOTW-HD3 also has an FM translator, W228DF at 93.5 in Orlando.^[4]

History

WLOQ Smooth Jazz

In 1966, the station first signed on as WLOQ.^[5] Its original city of license was Winter Park. The station was powered at only 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output. It was housed in the Langford Hotel. For its first couple of decades, WLOQ aired a middle of the road and easy listening sound. In 1977, Gross Communications, headed by Herbert P. Gross, bought WLOQ.^[6] Herbert Gross later passed control of the station onto his son John.

Through the 1990s and 2000s, WLOQ was a smooth jazz station. As the large national radio companies bought most of the major stations in the region, WLOQ was the last independently owned FM radio station in Greater Orlando. But in 2011, CEO John Gross decided to retire for medical reasons and put WLOQ up for sale.

WHKQ Spanish Contemporary

In 2011, WLOQ was sold to the TTB Media Corporation.^[7] At midnight on August 1, WLOQ signed off after 35 years with "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, and WLOQ's smooth jazz format moved exclusively online.

The station then began stunting with an all-Elvis Presley format as "Elvis 103.1." On August 3 at 9PM, the station flipped to Spanish Contemporary as KQ103, launching with 20,000 songs in a row.^[8]

On August 1, 2011, WLOQ changed its call sign to WHKQ. The WLOQ branding and smooth jazz format continues as an internet radio station, at WLOQRadio.com. The WLOQ branding was revived in August 2011 on an FM translator, 102.5 W273CA in Orlando, simulcast from the HD Radio signal of FM 107.7 WMGF, owned by iHeartMedia. Eventually iHeart ended the smooth jazz format on the translator, although it continues on WMGF's HD2 signal and online.

WOTW Country

On September 5, 2014, JVC Media, a New York-based broadcasting company that has been expanding its portfolio of radio properties in Florida, acquired WHKQ from TTB.^[9] That same month, two websites were registered possibly showing JVC, upon closing the sale, may flip WHKQ to country music as My Country 103.1 to go up against longtime country leader 92.3 WWKA, owned by Cox Radio. Other websites registered showed WHKQ possibly flipping to Dance music as Party 103.1.^[10] JVC has also requested to change the station's call letters to WOTW.^[11]

JVC's purchase of WHKQ was consummated on December 15, 2014 at a price of $10 million. That night, at midnight, after on-air staff members bid farewell and began redirecting listeners to Spanish Tropical 100.3 WRUM, 103.1 began stunting with simulcasts of other stations owned by JVC. The new WOTW call letters took effect on December 16th. On December 19, at noon, the stunting switched to sounds of a heartbeat and wolves howling. At 1:03 p.m. that day, the station officially flipped to country as 103.1 The Wolf. The first song on WOTW was My Kinda Party by Jason Aldean, the first of 10,000 songs in a row to launch The Wolf.^[12][13]

In May 2017, JVC announced that WOTW would activate its HD Radio signal, signing on an HD2 sub-channel to air a mainstream rock format, branded as Bud 94.1 (in reference to recently acquired translator W231CT, which had previously simulcast AM 810 WRSO). The sub-channel/translator signed on at 5:15 p.m. on July 13.^[14][15]

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• {{FM station data|WOTW}}
• {{FMQ|W228DF}}
• {{FXL|W228DF}}
• {{FMQ|W231CT}}
• {{FXL|W231CT}}

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