WDJZ

WDJZ (1590 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to South Daytona, Florida, and serving the Daytona Beach metropolitan area. It is owned by Glenn Cherry and it broadcasts a smooth jazz radio format.

For the defunct Bridgeport, Connecticut, radio station at 1530 AM, see WDJZ (Connecticut).
WDJZ
Broadcast areaDaytona Beach metropolitan area
Frequency1590 kHz
Programming
FormatSmooth Jazz
Ownership
OwnerGlenn Cherry
History
First air date
1957 (1957)
Former call signs
WDAT (1957–1959)
WELE (1959–1981)
WZIP (1981–1988)
WPUL (1988–2022)
Technical information
ClassD
Power1,000 watts day
47 watts night
Translator(s)100.7 W264DP (Daytona Beach)
Links
Websitehttps://wdjzfm.com/

WDJZ is powered at 1,000 watts by day, 47 watts at night, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Daytona Beach.[1] Programming is also heard on 220-watt FM translator W264DP at 100.7 MHz in Daytona Beach.[2]

History

The station signed on the air in 1957 under the call sign WDAT. It was a country-western station. Its call letters changed to WELE in 1959, and its format changed to an R&B music format in 1963 before going back to country by 1967.[3] In 1981, the station took on new call letters WZIP and became an oldies station before returning to country in 1986.[3]

In 1988, a group of investors who were graduates of the historically black Morehouse College bought WZIP. The call letters changed to WPUL and format changed to urban contemporary.[4]

Until 2022, WPUL broadcast progressive talk radio shows including The Thom Hartmann Program and The Stephanie Miller Show as well as various African-American-oriented shows including Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton and locally produced shows.[5]

The station was silent beginning on February 17, 2014, as station owners sought a new broadcast tower site.[4]

On September 16, 2022, the station changed its call sign to WDJZ, which stands for Daytona Jazz.

References
  1. Radio-Locator.com/WDJZ
  2. Radio-Locator.com/W264DP
  3. "WPUL-AM 1590 South Daytona".
  4. "WPUL-AM 1590 goes silent". Daytona Times. February 20, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
  5. "Chinese国产高清AV内谢_WINDOWSCHANNEL视频_caoporen个人免费公开_男人的天堂在线a无码".

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