WOJO (105.1 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by

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, via its division

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through licensee Tichenor License Corporation. WOJO's studios are located at 541 N. Fairbanks Ct, Suite 1100, Chicago, and its transmitter is located atop the

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. WOJO is also the affiliate station for the Chicago Fire MLS team, through an Exclusive Station on the Uforia App.

History

WEAW

The station began broadcasting in February 1947, and held the call sign WEAW.
Radio Frequency Modulation
': Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,

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, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on H. J. Res. 78; a Joint Resolution Relating to Assignment of a Section of the 50-megacycle Band of Radio Frequencies for Frequency Modulation (FM). Part 2: March 31 and April 1, 1948, Volume 2. p. 263. Retrieved January 18, 2019. The station was owned by North Shore Broadcasting, and its call sign stood for its president Edward A. Wheeler.Ghrist, John R. (1996). ''Valley Voices: A Radio History''. Crossroads Communications. p. 318-320. The station broadcast on 104.3 MHz briefly in 1947, before moving to 96.7 MHz later that year. The station's transmitter was located in Evanston and it had an ERP of 665 watts. In 1948, the station's frequency was changed to 105.1 MHz and its ERP was increased to 36,000 watts at a

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of 240 feet. The call sign officially became WEAW-FM in 1953 when a companion AM station was launched. In 1961, the station's ERP was increased to 180,000 watts. In 1970, the station's transmitter was moved to the top of the new

in Chicago, with its ERP reduced to 6,000 watts. Among the music heard on WEAW was

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, and

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.O'Connor, Richard. (2009).
A Brief History of Beautiful Music Radio
', Percy Faith Pages. Retrieved January 19, 2019. The station also carried programs from local schools, community organizations, and

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. The station also broadcast

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to stores and other businesses, with ads removed for subscribers. By 1964, all of its subscription services had been moved to subcarriers. From 1947 through the 1960s, WEAW broadcast

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games. It was also the flagship station of the

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radio network in 1971 and 1972.

WOJO

By late 1972, most of the station's programming was in Spanish, and in December 1972, its callsign was changed to WOJO. In 1986, WOJO was sold to Tichenor Media for $1.4 million. In 1997, Tichenor Media merged with Heftel Broadcasting to form the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, which merged with

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in 2004.Hispanic radio industry pioneer dies
,

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''. January 5, 2009. Retrieved January 19, 2019. In 2025, WOJO also became the affiliate station for the Chicago Fire MLS team

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References

External links

Official site of WOJO "Que Buena 105.1 FM" (with streaming audio)Official Radio Maria Chicago site (with streaming audio)
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