WHLK
adult hits radio station in Cleveland, Ohio
WHLK (106.5 FM, "The Lake") is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, carrying an adult hits format. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. WHLK's studios are located at the Six Six Eight Building in downtown Cleveland's Gateway District and the transmitter is sited in Parma. Along with a standard analog transmission, WHLK broadcasts over two HD Radio channels and is available online via iHeartRadio.
WHLK signed on in 1960 as WABQ-FM, the FM extension of WABQ. Within a year it adopted the WXEN call sign and picked up an ethnic format led by block programming from different nationalities. Purchased by Booth American in 1964, the station switched to Top 40 in 1977 as WZZP, a change that ignited controversy both among the fired ethnic hosts and the station's listenership. WZZP switched to soft adult contemporary in 1980, then relaunched as "Lite Rock 106+1⁄2" WLTF in 1984. As WLTF, the station became highly-rated through the late 1980s and early 1990s, but ultimately faltered against stiff competition. Purchased by iHeartMedia predecessor Jacor in 1997, the station rebranded as "Mix 106.5" WMVX, deemphasizing personality in favor of a more music-intensive hot adult contemporary, then with the duo of Brian Fowler and Joe Cronauer as morning hosts. WMVX was also the first station in Cleveland to implement Christmas music on an annual basis beginning in 2001.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WHLK” as adult hits radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as adult hits radio station in Cleveland, Ohio. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7950263. Authority coordinates are 41.379, -81.720. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1964, 1977 and 1980.
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