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WQHS-TV
Parma / Cleveland / Akron / Canton, Ohio
City of license	Cleveland
Branding	Univision 61
Channels	61 (UHF) analog, 34 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Univision
Owner	Univision (Univision Cleveland LLC)
Founded	April 10, 1980 (On-air since March 1981)
Call letters meaning	HS = Home Shopping Network
Former callsigns	WCLQ-TV (1980-1986) WQHS (1986-1992)
Former affiliations	Independent (1980-1986) HSN (1986-2002)
Transmitter Power	2,000 kW Analog 525 kW Digital
Height	354 m (1161.42 ft) Analog 333.8 m (1095.14 ft) Digital
Class	Full Time TV Station (-TV) Full Time HD Station (-DT)
Facility ID	60556
Transmitter Coordinates	41° 22' 58.00" N LAT 81° 42' 7.00" W LON

WQHS-TV is a Spanish-language television station owned and operated by and affiliated with Univision. It is licensed to serve the Cleveland, Ohio television market, and broadcasts on UHF channel 61 with studios and offices in Parma. It is also one of three stations with the Univision affiliation, alongside WUDT-CA in Detroit, Michigan and KUNS-TV in Seattle, Washington in markets bordering Canada.

Contents 1 History 1.1 1975 to 1980: The dark years 1.2 1980 to Present: New license, new owners 2 External links

A previous license owned by Kaiser Broadcasting occupied Channel 61 as WKBF from 1968 to 1975. In 1975, Kaiser Broadcasting purchased rival station WUAB-TV and combined assets of both stations. Kaiser then signed Channel 61 off the air due to poor revenue growth and returned the license to the Federal Communications Commission.

Rumors abounded concerning potential companies that could file for the Channel 61 license in Cleveland, yet none came forward right away. After a few years, the FCC began to accept applications for channel 61 (as a distinctly separate license from WKBF), and Balaban Stations won the license in 1980.

The current licensed station signed on in March of 1981. The call letters assigned to the new licensee was WCLQ. The Channel 61 logo was similar to WKBF's design, but with a neon glow effect. This station too was classified as "independent" as it did not carry a national network. The air time was filled with general entertainment programming and ran a mix of classic cartoons, hour long off network dramas, westerns, sitcoms, and other syndicated programs. The station did gain profitability, unlike its predecessor. This may have been initially due to the evening program service that was not free broadcast, but an over-the-air subscription service that scrambled the signal to anyone but paid subscribers (known under its brand name as "Preview Television Subscription"). The service was discontinued in 1982. WCLQ was sold to Channel Communications in 1984.

In 1985, WOIO and WBNX both signed on with entertainment formats to create further competition, which took viewers away from WCLQ. WOIO surpassed WCLQ in the ratings immediately. WBNX struggled and ran a lot of paid programming. But it became apparent that Cleveland was unable to support four independent stations. As a result, WCLQ began to lose money, and Channel Communications decided to put WCLQ up for sale in May 1986. The station began running Home Shopping Network programming from midnight to 6 a.m. earlier that year, and in the summer it also began to air from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In August, HSN's broadcasting arm (Silver King Television) bought WCLQ. In September, WCLQ began to run HSN programming 18 hours a day, while the independent format continued to air from 4 to 10 p.m.

Once the sale was finalized in November 1986, WCLQ changed its call letters to WQHS-TV. The independent format was completely dropped, with HSN programs being shown 24/7 for the next sixteen years. WBNX picked up much of WCLQ's syndicated programming including cartoons.

Plans emerged in the late 1990s to return WQHS-TV to the independent format by 2002. However, USA Broadcasting decided that it would be better to sell and almost sold WQHS to ABC/Disney in 2000, but ended up being outbid by Univision. As a result, WQHS-TV adopted the Univision Network programming in January 2002. The station continues to serve Northern Ohio as its only Spanish language station.

Preceded by WKBF-TV

Channel 61 Cleveland occupant 1980-present

Succeeded by incumbent

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WQHS-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WQHS-TV

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Broadcast television in the Cleveland / Akron / Canton market (Nielsen DMA #17)

Local television stations WKYC 3 (NBC) - WEWS 5 (ABC) - WJW 8 (Fox) - WDLI 17 (TBN) - WOIO 19 (CBS) - WVPX 23 (ION) - WVIZ 25 (PBS) - WAOH 29 / W35AX 35 (A1) - WIVN 29 / WIVM 52 (A1) - W32AR 32 (TBN) - WRAP 32 (Corner) - WUAB 43 (MNTV, The Tube on DT2) - WEAO 49 (PBS) - WGGN 52 (TBN) - WCDN 53 (Daystar) - WBNX 55 (The CW) - WQHS 61 (UNI) - WXOX 65 (HSN/AS) - WOAC 67 (Ind) - WMFD 68 (Ind)
Defunct television stations WAKN 11 (JTV) - WKBF 61 (Ind)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the Detroit/Windsor, Toledo, Columbus, Ohio, Youngstown, Wheeling/Steubenville, Erie and London markets

Other Television Stations in the state of Ohio

Independent Stations: WGCT 8 (Columbus) - W21BF 21 (Fremont) - WDFM 26 (Defiance) - W57BH 57 (Steubenville) - WOAC 67 (Canton) - WMFD 68 (Mansfield) Home Shopping Stations: WRAP-CA 32 (infomercials, Cleveland) - WBTL 34 (AS, Toledo) - WWRD 55 (HSN, Centerville) - WXOX 65 (HSN/America's Store, Cleveland) ION Television Affiliates: WVPX 23 (Akron) - WTLW 44 (Lima) - WSFJ 51 (Newark) America One Affiliates: WBKA-CA 22 (Bucyrus) - WFND 22 (Findlay, also Daystar) - WOTH 25 (Cincinnati) - WAOH 29 / W35AX 35 (Akron / Cleveland) - WIVN-LP 29 / WIVM-LP 52 (Canton / Newcomerstown) Religious Stations: W09CG (TBN, Findlay) - W17AY (TBN, Seaman) - WDLI 17 (TBN, Canton) - W22CO (TBN, Toledo) - WFND 22 (Findlay, also America One) - W23BZ (TBN, Columbus) - W26AL (TBN, Marietta) - W32AR (TBN, Lexington) - WLMB 40 (FamilyNet, Toledo) - WGGN 52 (TBN, Sandusky) - WCDN 53 (Daystar, Cleveland) Other Stations: WSSS-LP 25 (MTV2, Steubenville) - W38DH 38 (America's Store, Toledo) - WQHS 61 (Univision, Cleveland)

See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS, MyNetworkTV and CW

Univision Communications (a subsidiary of TPG Capital, L.P.)

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Television Networks: Galavisión | TeleFutura | Univision

Record Labels: Univision Records | Fonovisa | Disa Records

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Univision Owned and/or Operated Stations: KABE | KAKW | KDTV | KFTV | KMEX | KTVW | KUVE | KUVN | KUVS | KWEX | KXLN | WGBO | WLII | WLTV | WQHS | WSUR | WUVC | WUVG | WUVP | WXTV

TeleFutura Owned and/or Operated Stations: KFPH | KFSF | KTFB | KTFD1 | KTFF | KFTH | KTFK | KTFQ2 | KFTR | KFTU | KNIC | KSTR | WAMI | WFPA | WFTT1 | WFTY | WFUT | WOTF | WTNC | WUTF1 | WXFT

Other Television Stations: KUVI (MNTV affiliate) | WSTE (Independent)3

1Univision owns the licenses. However these stations are operated by Entravision under a Local Marketing Agreement.

2Univision owns the license. However this station operates in a Joint Sales Agreement with Entravision.

3The station is locally owned. However thorugh WLII and WSUR-TV, Univision operates the station under a Local Marketing Agreement.

Annual Revenue: $2.9 billion USD (2006) | Employees: 4,233 | Stock Symbols: None, privately held. | Website: www.univision.net