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 |
| Frequency | 99.1 (MHz) |
| First air date | 1960s |
| Format | Mainstream Urban |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | Eurith D. Rivers (former Georgia Governor, same person WGOV Valdosta, Georgia is named for) |
| Owner | Cox Broadcasting |
| Sister stations | WEDR, WFLC, WHDR, WHQT |
| 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. This is because 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.
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[edit] History
1960s --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 had rock and country formats. [1]
1970 -- WEDR adopts a black format. The station had a weak signal that couldn't cover all of Dade county, but it fared well because it was the only black station in the market.[2]
1988 -- WQHT drops its pop/dance format and adopts an Urban Contemporary format. According to the Miami Herald, "WEDR dipped to a low ranking of 24th in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market, and was eulogized as an outmoded, black-run David squashed beneath the foot of a corporate white Goliath."[3]
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 on the weekends.[4]
April, 21, 1990 -- the station's signal was increased from 16,000 watts to 100,000 watts. 99 Jamz now become a factor in the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton market. The signal reaches as far as the Caribbean.[5]
1992 -- 99 Jamz becomes the top rated station in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale market.[6]
2003 -- Program Director and morning drive host, James T, migrates to sister station WHQT. James T. had been at WEDR for twenty years. WEDR began to skew more towards current format being a Mainstream Urban with the slogan "99 JAMZ, South Florida's Only Station 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/DJ Entice 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] References
- ^ Due, Tananarive. "Call WEDR Black--And Successful", Miami Herald, April 11, 1993. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
- ^ Due, Tananarive. "Call WEDR Black--And Successful", Miami Herald, April 11, 1993. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
- ^ Due, Tananarive. "Call WEDR Black--And Successful", Miami Herald, April 11, 1993. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
- ^ Andrews, Sharony. "More Listeners Dial WEDR; Station Making Gains Among Blacks", Miami Herald, July 8, 1990. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
- ^ Due, Tananarive. "Call WEDR Black--And Successful", Miami Herald, April 11, 1993. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
- ^ Jicha, Tom. "WEDR Takes Over Top Spot In Radio", Sun-Sentinel, April 29, 1992. Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
[edit] External links
- Official Website of 99 Jams, South Florida's #1 for Today's Hip Hop and R&B
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WEDR
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