WJZL
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| City of license | Grand Ledge, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | [1] |
| Branding | 92.9 WJZL |
| Slogan | Lansing's Smooth Jazz |
| Frequency | 92.9 MHz |
| First air date | 1963 |
| Format | Smooth Jazz |
| Power | 5,400 watts |
| HAAT | 105 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 24645 |
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| Former callsigns | WQTX (3/27/01-10/1/05) WVIC (6/1/97-3/27/01) WMMQ (1979-6/1/97) WCER-FM (1963-1979) |
| Owner | Rubber City Radio Group, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WJXQ, WJZL, WQTX, WVIC |
| Website | http://www.wjzlonline.com/ |
WJZL (92.9 FM) is a radio station in the Lansing, Michigan market, broadcasting a satellite-fed smooth jazz format.
The station began broadcasting in 1963 as WCER-FM at 92.7 licensed to Charlotte, and is best known as the longtime home of one of the nation's pioneering classic rock radio stations, WMMQ (which now operates at 94.9). See the article on WMMQ for more information on the history of 92.7 FM under those calls.
After WMMQ moved to 94.9 FM in 1997, 92.7 became WVIC (ironically, 94.9 was for many years WVIC-FM) and broadcast intermittently for the next several years. When it was on the air, WVIC aired fully-automated classical music with no announcers and oddly-placed legal station IDs, and with no commercials except for public-service announcements. Oddly, the station actually did show up in the Lansing Arbitron ratings during this time.
From 2001 to 2005, the station was WQTX, airing sports talk as "The Ticket." In October 2005, simulcast partner WTXQ-FM 92.1 switched to oldies and took back the WQTX calls, as 92.7 FM adopted Jones Radio Networks' Smooth Jazz format, to be followed by a frequency shift to 92.9. The station operated for many months on 92.9 at reduced power until November 16, 2007, when it was able to broadcast at 5,400 watts. Until the station went to full power, its weak signal was prone to severe fading and co-channel interference from WJZQ-FM in Cadillac, Michigan, even into Clinton County, which is located just north of Lansing. WJZL now has a much stronger signal in the immediate Lansing area and can be heard listenably to Jackson in the south, Howell in the east, and Hastings in the west.
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