WQSR
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| City of license | Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Broadcast area | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Branding | "102.7 Jack FM" |
| Slogan | Playing What We Want |
| Frequency |
102.7 (MHz) (also on HD Radio) 102.7-HD2 for Oldies |
| First air date | 1947 |
| Format | Adult Hits |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 133 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 63778 |
| Callsign meaning | WQSR, originally on 105.7, was intended to be part of ABC's "Super Radio" Network |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications |
| Sister stations | WCAO, WPOC, WZFT |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.1027jackfm.com |
WQSR is a radio station broadcasting on 102.7 FM. The station is licensed to Baltimore and serves that market. Its transmitter is located in Pikesville, next to the Pikesville Reservoir. It is under ownership of Clear Channel Communications. The station offers an adult rock hits format known as Jack FM.
[edit] History
- For the station on 105.7 formerly known as WQSR, see WJZ-FM
The 102.7 frequency in Baltimore signed on in 1947 as WCAO-FM, sister to WCAO. WCAO was originally a simulcast of the AM, but by the late 60's/early 70's, WCAO-FM carried it's own Classical music format. By 1977, the station was sold to Plough Broadcasting and became WXVY V103, the first major rival to WWIN (AM). Originally an automated Disco format, WXYV eventually evolved into an Urban Contemporary format by the early 1980's. In 1997, the station became "102.7 XYV", and then "B102.7" in 1998. In 2001, the WQSR calls were moved over from 105.7 along with the oldies format, while WXYV moved to 105.7 and changed to an urban contemporary format. The music also changed a little, cutting back the pre-1964 songs and some 1980s music was introduced. By 2003, the station was playing strictly songs from 1964 to 1979 with a handful of pre '64 and post '79 titles.
In April 2005, the station adopted the Jack FM/Variety Hits format abruptly dropping oldies, following a nationwide trend.
On December 15, 2008, CBS Radio announced that it would be swapping WQSR and four of its other medium-market radio stations to Clear Channel Communications for two radio stations, KLOL and KHMX in Houston. Clear Channel took over 102.7 Jack FM at 11:59 PM on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009. After playing songs at CBS Radio's Baltimore studios such as "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men, R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp at roughly 11:57PM, the station went to dead air as Clear Channel officially took control over the station. Shortly thereafter, the station returned to the air at the Clear Channel Baltimore studios.
WQSR in its current incarnation as Jack FM runs a strictly jockless Variety Hits format. Although there are no on-air personalities on the station, the station airs Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s on Sunday nights from 8pm-Midnight.
[edit] External links
- 102.7 Jack FM
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WQSR
- Radio-Locator information on WQSR
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WQSR
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