WOJO
WOJO 105.1 FM in Evanston, Illinois serves the Chicago area with a Regional Mexican format under the Que Buena 105.1 brand. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision and run by its Uforia Audio Network division through the licensee Tichenor License Corporation. The station’s studios are at 541 N. Fairbanks Ct, Suite 1100 in Chicago, and its transmitter sits atop the John Hancock Center.
Programming and technical details
- Frequency: 105.1 MHz (HD Radio)
- Format: Regional Mexican
- Branding: Que Buena 105.1
- HD subchannels: HD2 – Urban contemporary “Streetz 95.1”; HD3 – Spanish CHR (WVIV-FM) simulcast
- Transmission: 5,700 watts ERP, transmitter at John Hancock Center
- Translators: HD2 feeds 95.1 FM in Chicago (W236CF) and Bolingbrook (W236CG)
Affiliations and sister stations
- The station is the Chicago Fire MLS team affiliate via the Uforia App.
- Sister stations include WPPN, WVIV-FM, WMXFT-DT, WGBO-DT, among others.
History (short)
- First aired February 1947 as WEAW, originally on 104.3, then 96.7 in 1947, moving to 105.1 in 1948. Early power was low (665 watts) with a transmitter in Evanston.
- Became WEAW-FM in 1953, with an AM sister station. In 1961 power increased to 180 kW.
- In 1970 the transmitter moved to the John Hancock Center in Chicago; power was reduced to 6 kW.
- Early formats included light/easy listening, classical, show tunes, and store background music; Northwestern University programming and local school/community content were also aired.
- From 1947–60s, aired Northwestern football; was the flagship station for the Chicago White Sox radio network in 1971–1972.
- By late 1972 most programming shifted to Spanish, and the call sign changed to WOJO in December 1972.
- Sold to Tichenor Media in 1986. Tichenor merged into Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation in 1997, which joined Univision Communications in 2004.
- In 2025, WOJO became the affiliate for the Chicago Fire MLS team.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 14:53 (CET).