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
Power
  • 1,000 watts day
  • 47 watts night
Translator(s)100.7 W264DP (Daytona Beach)
Links
Websitewdjzfm.com

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.

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. 1 2 "WPUL-AM 1590 South Daytona".
  4. 1 2 "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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