page_title: WLVW
section_title: WRQX
hierarchical_section_title: WLVW / History / WRQX
caption_attribution_description: English: WRQX logo
context_page_description: WLVW – branded as K-Love – is a non-commercial contemporary Christian radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned and operated by the Educational Media Foundation, WLVW does not broadcast any local programming, functioning as the Washington metropolitan area network affiliate for K-Love. The station's transmitter resides in the district's northwest quadrant. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WLVW is available online; the station also formerly broadcast in the HD Radio format.
context_section_description: WMAL-FM changed its call sign to WRQX on December 7, 1977. On April 15, 1979, WRQX changed to top 40; branded as "Q107", the station eliminated automation completely. At noon on August 31, 1990, the station changed to Hot AC, branded as "Mix 107.3." The first song on "Mix" was "Let The Music Play" by Shannon.
  WRQX was one of the many Disney/ABC Radio stations that merged with Citadel Broadcasting in 2007. Citadel, in turn, merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011. Previous slogans have been "Not too hard, Not too light", "The Best Mix of the 80s, 90s & Today", "The Best Mix of...Everything", "Washington's Best Music Mix", "Today's Best Hits", "All the Hits", "More Music, More Variety", and "DC's Best Music Mix."
  On April 27, 2013, long-time morning show host Jack Diamond was unexpectedly released from the station when his contract expired and management declined to renew it. Diamond had been at the station since the day the it flipped to "Mix" in 1990. There was speculation that the station would take the morning show in a new direction to compete against top 40-formatted WIHT. Bert Weiss, the host of "The Bert Show" on co-owned WWWQ in Atlanta (and formerly Diamond's co-host), took over morning drive time on WRQX, beginning May 16. "The Bert Show" was syndicated from Atlanta.
  On August 19, 2013, WRQX began to slowly phase out its "Mix" moniker, and began emphasizing the slogan "All The Hits," as well as shifting its playlist towards more current music, while dropping all 1980s and most 1990s material. Rival company Clear Channel Communications picked up word on this potential shift, and began registering domain names such as "allthehits1073.com" and "q1073dc.com" to prevent Cumulus from using them. Those domains redirected to WIHT's website. On August 28, WRQX completed its shift back to top 40, then branded as "All The Hits 107.3." The station debuted a new logo and transferred its website address to 1073Hits.com.
  On May 2, 2014, WRQX dropped "The Bert Show" after one year, due to low ratings. Marco, who had previously been the station's afternoon drive personality, took over morning drive on an interim basis three days later. On July 30, 2014, the "Sarah, Ty and Mel Show" debuted on 107.3. It was heard weekdays from 6–10 a.m., and was hosted by Sarah Fraser (formerly of The Kane Show), Ty Bentli (now hosting the syndicated Nash-FM country music morning show) and Melanie Glazener (who also worked with Fraser on The Kane Show). Also in July 2014, WRQX was re-branded as "DC's 107.3" and its website address was changed to dcs1073.com.
  During September and October 2015, WRQX began shifting back towards hot AC. On November 9, 2015, Louie Diaz was announced as WRQX's new program director, replacing Jan Jeffries. On that same day, the station's air staff was dismissed, leading to rumors of a format change, possibly back to hot AC, once again as "Mix 107.3." Rival WIHT was ranked number 4 in the market with a 5.9 share, while WRQX was ranked #18 with a 2.1 share of the market according to the October 2015 Nielsen ratings report.
  On November 11, 2015, Cumulus announced that WRQX would revert to its "Mix 107.3" branding on November 13. In addition, the station began playing Christmas music beginning at 3 p.m. on November 13. Cumulus initially said the Christmas format would be heard through the holiday season; however, it turned out to be a stunt, only lasting for that weekend. At 6 a.m. on November 16, the station officially relaunched as "Mix" with the return of morning host Jack Diamond. The move proved popular and WRQX's ratings began to improve.
caption: Last Mix 107.3 logo, 2015-2019
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