WLQY

WLQY

Hollywood, Florida
Broadcast area	Miami area
Frequency	1320 kHz
Branding	WLQY 1320 am
Programming
Format	World Ethnic
Ownership
Owner	Entravision Communications (Entravision Holdings, LLC)
History
First air date	April, 1953
Former call signs	WHWD (1953–1954) WGMA (1954–1980) WADY (1980)
Call sign meaning	W-LuQ(ck)Y
Technical information
Facility ID	23609
Class	B
Power	5,000 watts fulltime
Transmitter coordinates	26°1′53.00″N 80°16′42.00″W
Links
Website	Official website

WLQY (1320 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a World Ethnic format. Licensed to Hollywood, Florida, United States, the station serves the Miami area in the daytime and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood at night. The station operates with five kilowatts into a two tower daytime directional pattern and a four tower nighttime directional pattern The station is owned by Entravision Holdings, LLC.

A talk show in progress at WLQY studios

History

"The Million Dollar Sound of WGMA" began in the mid-1960s as an adult "Middle Of the Road" one-kilowatt omnidirectional daytime-only station. WGMA "The Country Giant" followed, with improved coverage from two four-tower directional patterns, day and night, and with five kilowatts. See History of WGMA The Country Giant, 1967-79

WGMA was located at the Hollywood Federal building on Washington Street and 441, and their transmitter was at 9881 Sheridan Street, before Sheridan Street existed. Singles-only station WADY "The Lady", went on the air on March 1, 1980. On July 1, 1980, the station changed its call sign to the current WLQY.

WLQY, first known as "Lucky 13", was a "Music Of Your Life" station. Gary Lawrence of was the official bandleader of WLQY.

External links

• WLQY Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID WLQY ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
• History of WGMA The Country Giant, 1967-79 from South Florida Radio History web site
• Gary Lawrence/GLP Music WLQY Bandleader
• FCC History Cards for WLQY