WNVZ
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| Broadcast area | Norfolk/Virginia Beach |
|---|---|
| Branding | "Z104" |
| Slogan | "Today's Best Music" |
| First air date | 1967 |
| Frequency | 104.5 (MHz) |
| Format | Rhythmic Top 40 |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | We're Norfolk Virginia's Z104 |
| Owner | Entercom |
| Website | Z104's homepage |
WNVZ, also known as Z104, is a Rhythmic Top 40 outlet serving the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Portsmouth-Hampton-Newport News radio market. The Entercom communications outlet broadcasts at 104.5 MHz with an ERP of 50 kW. Its COL and studios are in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
[edit] History
WNVZ originally signed on the air in 1967 as a simulcast of Country music outlet 1270 WTID, (which is now separately owned Religious outlet WTJZ ) but by 1973 they would break off the simulcast and become WQRK, broadcasting a Top 40 format with custom made jingles, sped up records, and a lot of on air audio processing( Then known as "QRK" and "Sooper Q" at the time).In 1975 WQRK went from live to automated Top 40,in the late 70s and early 80s they evolved into a Live Adult Contemporary format.
But that would all change in August 1982 when they returned to a mainstream Top 40format as Z104,and debuted the WNVZ calls and Z104 name.(Hailing the return of the CHR format on the air as " The Half Has Become a Whole " ) About a year later they were using Mike Joseph's "Hot Hits" format,which had been done in several larger markets,but dropped Joseph by summer of 1985 By 1993 they would evolve into a Rhythmic Top 40 direction. Today, it uses the slogan "#1 For Hip-Hop & Today's Best Music" to describe its broad-based mix of Hip-Hop/R&B and Rhythmic Pop hits. This pits the station against its urban contemporary hip hop/R&B competitor WOWI.
[edit] WNVZ HD2
On April 25, 2006 Entercom announced that WNVZ's HD2 subchannel will offer an all-comedy format, which debuted in June.
[edit] External links
- Z104, TODAY'S BEST MUSIC!
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WNVZ
- Steve McVie's Hot Hits tribute, with airchecks of "Z104" during its "Hot Hits!" phase in 1983-1984
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