WKRZ
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Broadcast area | Wilkes-Barre - Scranton - Northeastern Pennsylvania |
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| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 98.5 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | 98.5 KRZ |
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| LanguageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| Format | Contemporary hit radio |
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| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
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Former call signs | WBRE-FM (1948–1980) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | B |
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| HAAT | 357 meters (1,171 ft) |
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WKRZ (98.5 FM, "98.5 KRZ") is a commercial radio station licensed to Freeland, Pennsylvania, and serving the Wilkes-Barre - Scranton - Northeastern Pennsylvania radio market. It has aired a contemporary hit radio format since 1980. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc., through licensee Audacy License, LLC.
WKRZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 8,700 watts. The station broadcasts using HD Radio; the country music programming of sister station WGGY (Froggy 101) is heard on its HD2 digital subchannel and Family Life Network is heard on its HD3 digital subchannel. The transmitter tower is located in Bear Creek Township at (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).[3] WKRZ programming is simulcast on WKRF (107.9 FM) in Tobyhanna, serving the Stroudsburg area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
History
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The station first signed on in 1948.[4] The call sign was WBRE-FM, originally licensed to Wilkes-Barre. It was the sister station to WBRE (1480 AM, now WYCK).[5] The WBRE call letters stood for Baltimore Radio Exchange for the original owner, the Baltimore family, and not Wilkes-Barre like commonly thought. WBRE-AM-FM evolved through a number of radio formats and by the 1970s, was all-news radio.[6] At first, the stations used NBC's NIS (News and Information Service). When that was discontinued, it ran the all-news format with its own staff. WBRE-FM, up to that point, broadcast in FM mono since its start in 1948. The station's audience was loyal but the ratings were not great.[7]
WBRE-FM made a big change in 1980, when it was sold. The new owners added FM stereo, along with a format switch to contemporary hit radio music, and with the call sign change to the present WKRZ. WKRZ has been a contemporary hit radio station since 1980, branded at first as 98½ FM KRZ. The station was sold in 1999 to Entercom Communications.[8]
Entercom received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval in 2003 to move co-owned WAMT (103.1 FM, now WILK-FM) from Freeland to Avoca. As a condition of the move, Entercom agreed to change the city of license of WKRZ from Wilkes-Barre to Freeland due to FCC concerns about the "loss of local service" to Freeland because of the WAMT move. In practice, the only change was the legal station identification.[9] The studios remained in Wilkes-Barre and the transmitter remains in Bear Creek Township.
Stations
One full-power station simulcasts the programming of WKRZ:
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | Facility ID | ERP W |
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| Template:Rh | WKRF | 107.9 FM | Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania | 14643 | 830 | 267.7 meters (878 ft) | A | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. | Covers Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania |
This station was originally assigned the WPMR call sign on November 29, 1989. The call sign was changed to WPMR-FM on March 11, 1992[10] and was off the air but began a simulcast of WKRZ in 1995.[11] Its call sign was changed to WKRF on May 15, 1995.[10]
Signal note
WKRZ is short-spaced to WYCR Rocky 98.5 (licensed to serve York-Hanover, Pennsylvania) as they operate on the same channel and the distance between the stations' transmitters is 110 miles as determined by FCC rules.[12] The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on the same channel according to current FCC rules is 150 miles.[13]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WKRZ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FCC 335-FM Digital Notification [WKRZ]". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. April 9, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FM Query Results for WKRZ". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."U. S. FM Stations as of 1948". Archived from the original on July 29, 2004. Retrieved July 29, 2004.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."U. S. AM stations as of 1946". Archived from the original on January 28, 1999. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
- ^ Northeastern Pennsylvania Radio Answers
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ROCKING LOCAL AIRWAVES MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO, A TEAM OF WACKY RADIO PERSONALITIES LED WKRZ-FM TO BECOME THE AREA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL FM STATION". Times Leader. Wilkes-Barre, PA. April 8, 2001. p. 1B. Retrieved March 6, 2017.Closed access icon
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-478
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush". Archived from the original on December 9, 2003. Retrieved December 9, 2003.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Call Sign History [WKRZ]". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Stark, Phyllis (April 29, 1995). "Vox Jox". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 17. p. 92.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Reference points and distance computations. 47 CFR § 73.208". fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Minimum distance separation between stations. 47 CFR § 73.207(b)(1)" (PDF). fcc.gov. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
External links
- Official website
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- WKRZ in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
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- WKRF in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
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