WEDR

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WEDR
City of license	Miami/Fort Lauderdale
Broadcast area	South Florida
Branding	"99 Jamz"
Slogan	South Florida's #1 for Today's Hip Hop and R&B
First air date	1960s
Frequency	99.1 (MHz)
Format	Mainstream Urban
ERP	100,000 watts
Callsign meaning	Eurith D. Rivers (former Georgia Governor, same person WGOV Valdosta, Georgia is named for)
Owner	Cox Broadcasting
Website	http://wedr.com/

WEDR, 99 JAMZ, is an urban-formatted radio station that serves the South Florida region that is licensed to Miami. WEDR has an unusually wide music selection for a mainstream urban-formatted radio station that ranges from typical hip-hop and R&B to reggaeton and soca music. This is due to the fact that South Florida is a very diversified region that has various music tastes. WEDR is owned by Cox Broadcasting alongside sister stations WHQT and WFLC, and has their studios located in Hollywood.

WEDR has an unusually shaped coverage area due to the station moving its antannae from a class C to a class C1 on a new tower. The main reasoning behind this so that the station's signal doesn't interfer with the close frequencies that serves southwestern Florida. It also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity in Summer 2005.

Contents 1 History 2 Current Lineup 3 Station Management 4 External links

[edit] History

The WEDR call letters have been in South Florida since the 1960s when the station's then owner Ed Rivers acquired them from an AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama.WEDR-FM was the first station in Miami to play rock music. By 1971,the rock format was dropped in favor of Soul/R&B. However, urban formats have been on the 99.1 frequency in some form or another, going all the way back to the early 70's when it played Disco as a Rhythmic Contemporary Hit station. In early 1990, WEDR changed slogans from "Starforce 99" to "99 JAMZ", an Urban Contemporary with a notoriously wide variety playlist that ranged from R&B, Soul, and rap to Reggae and Soca on the weekends. Extraordinarily, WEDR maintained the urban contemporary format through media consolidation with Cox Broadcasting purchasing it and former rival WHQT in the 1990's all to into the early 2000s. During those years as an urban contemporary, it held down the top spot in the market and the slogan The Station for Every Generation due to its wide variety playlist. However, in 2003, when former program director and morning drive host, James T, migrated from it to sister station WHQT, "Hot 105FM". WEDR began to skew more towards current format being a Mainstream Urban with the slogan "99 JAMZ, South Florida's #1 for More of Today's Hip Hop and R&B", to compete with it new crosstown rival, Clear Channel-owned WMIB, "103.5 the Beat". But they do still play slower R&B and Classic Soul songs during Night JAMZ show in the overnight hours. As of October 2006, WMIB has since modified its format to Urban AC to compete with WHQT, leaving WEDR to compete with Rhythmic Hip Hop/R&B rival WPOW.

[edit] Current Lineup

Weekdays

• The Big Lip Bandit Morning Show with Supa Cindy and Benji Brown 6-10AM
• Mid-days with Shelby Rushin & DJ Suicide 10AM-2PM
• Afternoon Jumpoff & Drive at Five with Lorenzo "Ice Tea" Thomas & DJ KD/DJ Irie 2-6PM
• The Take Over with K. Foxx & DJ Khaled 6-11PM
• 11PM-2AM
• Night JAMZ with Kim Bell (slow jams) 2-5AM
• Gospel JAMZ 5-6AM

Friday Nights

• The Basement Explosion" With King Waggy Tee And Patrick Ewing (The Hype Man) 11PM-2AM

Saturdays

• Lil' Bear 2-6AM
• Community Voices with Cheryl Mizell 6-7AM
• DJ Ice T 7-11AM
• Lady D 11AM-3PM
• Jammin' Derrick B 3-7PM
• 7PM-Midnight

Sundays

• Dins Midnight-6AM
• Sunday Morning Gospel with Dallas Manuel 6-10AM
• Wendell Ford (gospel) 10AM-2PM
• DJ Ice T 2-6PM
• Lady D 6-10PM
• Kim Bell 10PM-2AM
• Night JAMZ (slow jams) 2-5AM
• Gospel JAMZ 5-6AM

[edit] Station Management

• General Manager Jerry Rushin
• Program Director Derrick Baker
• Music Director Shelby Rushin
• Promotions Director Maestro Powell
• Public Affairs Director Cheryl Mizell
• General Sales Manager Jerome Hutchinson
• Local Sales Manager Jo Castro

[edit] External links

• Official Website of 99 Jams, South Florida's #1 for Today's Hip Hop and R&B