Talk Radio 1470 (WLQR)

WLQR (AM) is a sports/talk radio station on 1470 kHz Toledo, Ohio. WLQR is the Toledo affiliate for ESPN Radio and is owned by Cumulus Media. The station is now mostly simulcast on 106.5 WLQR-FM and calls itself "106.5 The Ticket".For many years, AM 1470 was home to WOHO, a leading Top 40 music station in Toledo through the 1960s and 1970s and into the early 1980s. During the Top 40 music years, the Disk Jockeys were known as the "WOHO Good Guys". Music-era DJs included:Tommy Dean, Swingin Sweeney, Gary Calvert, Peter Tripp, John Garry, Larry Obrien, Bob Martz, Sam Holeman, Rick Randall, Bob B. Rich, E. Alvin Davis, Program Director Don Armstrong, Bill Manders, Bob Kelley, Larry Love, Ben Gall, Russ Simpson, Buddy Carr, Earl Sharninghouse aka Earl Richards, Tommy Vance, Ken R. Deutch aka Ken R, Sir Bernard J. Quayle, Mike Cook, Mike Morin, Corey Deitz, Jay Scott, News Director Craig Edwards, and news staffers, John Grimes, Cheryl Deutsch, Scott Feldman, Lou Hebert, Irwin Young, Hank Neyer and Ken Roberts. For several years, it was known as "1470 The Chicken" in reference to its mascot, a giant whole broiled chicken dressed in seasonal clothing. And there was also the inimitable "MOJO Man". One of the "Good Guys" Larry Love, (Larry Weseman) was 16 and still in high school when he began working at WOHO in the late 1960s making him one of Toledo's youngest deejays. Russ Simpson, a Canadian, became the host of "Royale Windfall" on CHAN-TV in Vancouver and died in 2004. Buddy Carr (who later became the original owner of WRED) is the only former "Good Guy" still on the air in Toledo.Prior to adopting the current sports-talk format and WLQR calls in November 1995, AM 1470 was known as WWWM (AM), with an urban contemporary music format.Until 1995, WLQR was also the longtime call sign of an Easy Listening music station on 101.5 FM in Toledo, which is today WRVF (101.5 "The River").