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WBQT (FM)
WBQT is a commercial radio station serving the Boston area on 96.9 FM, currently airing an urban-leaning Rhythmic contemporary format, branded as "Hot 96.9". Its studios are located in Dorchester and broadcasts from a transmitter atop the Prudential Tower in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
==History==
The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories and programmed a classical music format. In 1966, WXHR was sold to a joint venture of Kaiser Broadcasting and the ''Boston Globe'' and in 1967, became beautiful music station WJIB (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge). After several further ownership changes — first to General Electric in 1972, then to NBC in 1983 (three years before the merger between NBC's parent company, RCA, and GE) and Emmis Communications in 1988 — it flipped to smooth jazz as WCDJ, "CD96.9", beginning in 1990. After Greater Media bought the station in May 1993, the station began stunting with a simulcast of new sister station WMJX at 1 PM on May 4 of that year. 2 days later, at 4 PM, WCDJ flipped to country as WBCS. The station became WKLB-FM in August 1996 after the previous WKLB-FM was bought by Greater Media and consolidated with WBCS, with its frequency being converted to WROR-FM. Smooth jazz returned at Noon on August 22, 1997 as WSJZ, after a format swap with what had been WOAZ (now WCRB); in September 1999, it flipped to Talk, completing a 4-month transition to the format. Shortly after the flip, the station changed its call letters to WTKK. During its tenure as a talk station, WTKK used several monikers: "96.9 FM Talk" from its 1999 launch until 2007, "96.9 WTKK: Boston's Talk Evolution" from 2007 until 2010, "96.9 Boston Talks" from 2010 until September 2012, and "News Talk 96.9" from September 2012 until its January 2013 demise.
In April 2007, WTKK management attempted to add Boston Herald columnist and talk-show host Howie Carr to its lineup, after the station's syndicated morning show Imus in the Morning was cancelled after Don Imus' comments about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team got him fired by CBS. But Carr's long-time radio-station employer, Entercom-owned WRKO, blocked that move by exercising a clause in Mr. Carr's contract allowing it to make a matching counter-offer.〔http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/09/20/ruling_puts_carr_in_limbo_between_two_stations/〕 Carr held out until November 16, 2007, after which point Carr returned to WRKO. On December 3, WTKK resumed broadcasting Imus in the Morning when it was picked up by WABC, but over time, was locally limited in its broadcast time, ultimately only airing for 2 hours every weekday morning.〔http://www.bostonherald.com/business/media/view.bg?articleid=1201852 WTKK dials back Don Imus, tunes into local talent〕 In January 2011, WTKK dropped Imus from their lineup completely in favor of an extended edition of their late morning team of Jim Braude and Margery Eagan.〔http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/media/view/20110112wtkk_kicks_imus_out_adds_more_of_eagan/srvc=home&position=also WTKK kicks Imus out, adds more of Eagan〕
WTKK fired the controversial Jay Severin, a host since 1999, in April 2011 after he said he had slept with female interns at a company he had owned, and defended the practice.〔http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/04/07/contentious_talk_show_host_severin_fired/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today%27s+paper+A+to+Z Contentious Talk Show Host Severin Fired〕 He was officially replaced in June 2011 by radio host Doug Meehan.〔by http://bostonherald.com/blogs/news/messenger/index.php/2011/06/14/its-official-meehan-replace-severin/〕 Two months later, when rival station WXKS hired Severin for afternoon drive, WTKK shuffled its lineup to place politics-heavy Michael Graham in the 3 p.m. slot. The lineup at this point included Eagan and Braude, followed by various hosts in late mornings, then syndicated talker Michael Smerconish; an open slot, followed by "The Daily Wrap", hosted by Michael Castner and syndicated by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, then the syndicated John Batchelor and Overnight America shows.
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