WLQV AM 1500 Detroit 
Slogan/Positioner: Life Changing Talk Radio
Format: Religious
Web site: www.am1500wlqv.com
E-Mail: visit web site
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Class: B
Daytime Power / # of Towers: 50,000 watts / 9 / directional
Nighttime Power / # of Towers: 10,000 watts / 9 / directional
More web sites about WLQV:
- Wikipedia (no article as of 4/2006)
More Technical Information:
- engineering data
- station details
- FCCInfo.com
- Recnet Broadcast Query
- Daytime coverage
- Nighttime coverage (Radio Locator)
Call Sign History:
- WLQV: 8/3/1987
- WCZY: 6/17/1985
- WLQV:
- WDEE:
- WJBK: sign on, 1925
On Air Date: October 7, 1925
Owner: Salem Communications
Telephone: (313) 965-4500
Notes/History:
- 11/2005: FCC approves sale of station from Christian Broadcasting System to Salem Communications (Caron Broadcasting)
- 9/19/2005: Announced that station was being sold to Salem Communications for $6.75 million plus two Cincinnati, OH area AM stations pending FCC approval and closing.
- 3/2004: License to cover granted for 10,000 watt nighttime / 9 tower facility. Daytime remains 50,000 watts on the same 9 tower array.
- 2002: Station is using CP patterns for 50,000 watt daytime and 10,000 watt nighttime signals with program test authority from FCC
- 2001: Deal between WTOP Washington DC, KSTP Minneapolis, and WLQV results in new CP for nighttime 10,000 watts using 9 tower array
- 2/1999: Information and history about the on-going engineering challenges with the station's nighttime power and tower changes can be found here
- 1989: 3 towers removed from array, nighttime power to 3,000 watts via special temporary authority. Land where 3 towers were located was sold to K-Mart
- 1987: Station sold to Midwest Broadcasting, call sign back to WLQV and Religious programming. Gannett had purchased The Detroit News, forcing the sale due to FCC restrictions on cross-ownership of newspaper and radio/TV outlets in the same market.
- 1985: New call sign WCZY, simulcasting Adult Contemporary WCZY-FM 95.5. Dick Purtan 'returns to AM'. Very short lived
- 19xx: New call sign WLQV, format to Religious
- 197x: Combined Communications purchases station. Combined later becomes Gannett
- 19xx: New call sign WDEE, format to Country. Tongue-in-cheek meaning for the call sign "We've Done Everything Else"
- 1956: Daytime power to 50,000 watts (9 towers), nighttime to 5,000 using 12 tower array
- 1954: Frequency shift to 1500 using 9 tower array. Daytime power 10,000 watts, nighttime 1,000
- 1940: Frequency is 1490, licensed to Detroit
- 1930: Frequency is 1370
- 1927: Frequency is 1360
- 10/7/1925: On air as WJBK at 1290 AM, licensed to Ypsilanti
Center of antenna array/transmitter location:
Wayne County; near Dix Hwy and Moran Rd (Lincoln Park)
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