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| Broadcast area | Daytona Beach metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 1590kHz |
| Branding | 100.7 The Wave |
| Programming | |
| Format | Smooth jazz |
| Affiliations | Compass Media Networks |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Glenn Cherry |
| History | |
First air date | 1957; 68 years ago (1957) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Daytona Jazz" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 53704 |
| Class | D |
| Power |
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| Translator(s) | 100.7 W264DP (Daytona Beach) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | wdjzfm |
WDJZ (1590AM) is acommercial radio stationlicensed toSouth Daytona, Florida, and serving theDaytona Beach metropolitan area. It is owned by Glenn Cherry and it broadcasts asmooth jazzradio format.
WDJZ is powered at 1,000 watts by day, 47 watts at night, using anon-directional antenna. Thetransmitter is on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard inDaytona Beach.[2] Programming is also heard on 220-wattFM translatorW264DP at 100.7MHz in Daytona Beach.[3]
The stationsigned on the air in 1957 under thecall sign WDAT. It was acountry-western station. Its call letters changed to WELE in 1959, and its format changed to anR&B music format in 1963 before going back to country by 1967.[4] In 1981, the station took on new call letters WZIP and became an oldies station before returning to country in 1986.[4]
In 1988, a group of investors who were graduates of the historically blackMorehouse College bought WZIP. The call letters changed to WPUL and format changed tourban contemporary.[5]
Until 2022, WPUL broadcastprogressive talk radio shows includingThe Thom Hartmann Program andThe Stephanie Miller Show as well as various African-American-oriented shows includingKeepin' It Real with Al Sharpton and locally produced shows.[6]
The station wassilent beginning on February 17, 2014, as station owners sought a new broadcast tower site.[5]
On September 16, 2022, the station changed its call sign to WDJZ, which stands for Daytona Jazz.
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