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| Branding | Univision 61 |
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First air date | March 3, 1981 |
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Call sign meaning | Former Home Shopping Network affiliation[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60556 |
| ERP | 780 kW |
| HAAT | 352 m (1,155 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°22′58″N 81°42′6″W / 41.38278°N 81.70167°W |
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| Website | www |
WQHS-DT (channel 61) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language networks Univision and UniMás. Owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision, it is the only full-power Spanish-language television station in the state of Ohio. WQHS-DT's studios and transmitter are located on West Ridgewood Drive in suburban Parma.
This station's sign on in 1981 as WCLQ-TV marked the return of broadcasting over channel 61 in Cleveland, a frequency unused since the closure of WKBF-TV six years earlier. Originally the market outlet for subscription television service Preview along with a general slate of entertainment programming, Preview's 1983 closure forced WCLQ-TV to operate as a full-time independent station under the ownership of Channel Communications, which aggressively purchased syndicated reruns and movies but consistently ranked near the bottom of the local ratings. With the sign-on of two competing independent stations in 1985 and limited chance for profitability, the station was sold to Silver King Broadcasting, becoming one of the first owned-and-operated outlets for the Home Shopping Network (HSN) in 1986, when it changed its call sign to the present WQHS. Purchased by Univision in 2002, WQHS has largely operated as a "pass-through" for Univision programming ever since.
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