WAJZ
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| City of license | Voorheesville, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Capital Region |
| Branding | Jamz 96.3 |
| Slogan | "#1 for Hip-Hop and Today's Hits" |
| First air date | 1991 |
| Frequency | 96.3 MHz |
| Format | Rhythmic Contemporary |
| Power | 470 watts |
| ERP | 6 kW |
| Class | A |
| Callsign meaning | W Albany JamZ |
| Former callsigns | WCDA (1991-96) WPTR (1996-99) |
| Owner | Pamal Broadcasting |
| Website | www.jamz963.com |
WAJZ is a Rhythmic Contemporary station serving the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and operates at 96.3 MHz with an ERP of 6 kW and is licensed to Voorheesville, New York. The station is one of the only Class A FM signals based off of the Helderberg Mountains tower farm used by higher powered FM's and most TV stations in the market.
[edit] History
The station signed on in 1991 as WCDA running a mostly-satellite Adult Contemporary format as CD96.3. Being a new frequency and in the mist of a glut of the format, the station then changed to country, still mostly satellite, in April 1993 in an attempt to go after dominant country station WGNA-FM.
In March 1996, Albany Broadcasting (forerunner to today's Pamal Broadcasting) purchased WCDA, put the WPTR calls the company retained from their sale of 1540 AM, and relaunched the station under a classic-heavy country approach. After 18 months of struggling ratings, the station relaunched on November 3, 1997 as new country Power Country 96.3 after a weekend of Halloween-related stunting. The relaunch had no effect on its ratings as the station languished at the bottom of the ratings even with rights to Siena College men's basketball and New York Yankees baseball.
On December 23, 1998, WPTR changed its format to Urban Contemporary, the first such station in the market, as Jamz 96.3 with the WAJZ calls following several weeks later. For its first half-decade, the station maintained very good numbers but increased competition from rivals WVCR-FM (Siena College) and WKKF-FM forced the station to reevaluate its stance. In September 2005, it started shifting its direction towards a Rhythmic Contemporary approach.
As of March 8, 2007, the on-air line up consists of the JAMZ 96.3 Morning Show with JD and Big Ray as (formerly "The Morning Madhouse"), Rube in middays, Rob De Latino in afternoons, Tanch at night, and Linda Love overnights. Syndicated shows include Full Throttle with Fatman Scoop, the Weekend Top 30 with Hollywood Hamilton, the Baka Boyz, Pocos Pero Locos, and Dawson McAllister Live.
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In-Town:
88.3 | 89.1 | 89.7 | 90.3 | 90.7/94.9 | 90.9 | 91.5 | 92.3 | 93.7 | 94.5 | 95.5 | 96.3 | 96.7
98.3 | 99.5 | 100.9 | 102.3 | 103.1 | 103.9 | 104.5 | 104.9 | 105.7 | 106.5 | 107.7
Outside the Metro
Saratoga Springs/Glens Falls and Vermont: 91.9 | 94.7 | 95.9 | 97.5 | 98.5 | 100.3
101.3 | 101.7 | 102.7 | 107.1
Mohawk Valley: 97.3 | 97.7 | 101.9 | 103.5
Columbia/Greene Counties: 93.5 | 97.9 | 98.5
