WQHS-DT
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| Branding | Univision 61 |
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| History | |
First air date | March 3, 1981 |
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Call sign meaning | Former Home Shopping Network affiliation |
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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. It served as the market's original outlet for subscription television service Preview, and also carried 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. The station was purchased by Univision in 2002 and has largely aired network programming since, with no local newscasts.