The station shut down when its license was turned in to the Federal Communications Commission for cancellation by owner Cumulus Media, due to the transmitter site in Oregon needing extensive repairs.
For many years WOHO was a leading "Rockabilly" music station in Toledo from the 1950s under the auspices of Program Director "Johnny Dauro" and owner Sam Sloan.
Rich, E. Alvin Davis, Program Director Don Armstrong (late 1960s-early 1970s), Bill Manders, Bob Kelley, Larry Love (Larry Weseman), Ben Gall, Russ Simpson, Buddy (Fred Malnofski) Carr, Earl (Sharninghouse) Richards, Tommy Vance, Norm Davis, Ken R. Deutch, Sir Bernard J. Quayle, Paul Stowers, Mike Cook, Mike Morin, Chris "Beau" Elliot, Ron Sobczak, Johnny Zion, Steve (Matt Zaleski) Matthews, Jeff McCarthy, Corey Deitz, and Jay Scott, News Director Craig (Hugh Ledoux) Edwards, and Ed Corey (early 1980s).
There was also the inimitable Gear Jammin, Double Clutchin', Cookie Crunchin', Curb Jumpin' "MOJO MAN" aka Sid D. Grubbs.
Air personality Johnny Williams spent time on the WOHO airwaves prior to his long run on CKLW The Big 8 Windsor/Detroit in the 1970s & 80s.
From 1971 to 1995, WLQR was also the call sign of an Easy Listening (later Adult Contemporary music) station on 101.5 MHz FM in Toledo (now WRVF 101.5, "The River").
On June 22, 2009, the modern rock format of "106.5 The Zone" WRWK, suffering from declining ratings, was dropped in favor of a full-time simulcast of the then-WLQR and the new call sign of WLQR-FM.
On August 9, 2012, it was announced that AM 1470 would drop its sports format (which would still be carried on WLQR-FM) to become a talk station, featuring such nationally syndicated personalities from Cumulus Media subsidiary Westwood One: Don Imus, Jonathan Brandmeier, Chris Plante, Dave Ramsey, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, John Batchelor and Red Eye Radio.
The ground system at its transmitter site, on land owned by Cumulus' former CEO Lew Dickey and EVP John Dickey and leased to Cumulus, required repair and/or replacement, and the station had multiple never-built Construction Permits to construct a replacement four tower array on the west side of Toledo.
Cumulus had effectively "parked" the call sign on a Hartsville, South Carolina AM station after trading the 1560 kHz license to CSN International in exchange for FM translator W264AK at 100.7 MHz.
Market manager Andy Stuart told the Toledo Blade, "The cost to fix it, and what the expected return is not a good investment.