| City of license | Indiantown, Florida |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | West Palm Beach, Florida |
| Branding | Now 103.1 |
| Slogan | Today's Best Hits Without the Rap |
| Frequency |
103.1 (MHz) (also on HD Radio) 103.1 HD-2 (The Buzz) |
| First air date | 1995 |
| Format | Adult Top 40 |
| ERP | 90,000 watts |
| HAAT | 297 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 1246 |
| Callsign meaning | West Palm Beach's BuzZ (portmanteau meaning of calls) |
| Owner | CBS Radio |
| Sister stations | WEAT-FM, WIRK, WMBX, WNEW |
| Webcast | Now 103.1 Webstream The Buzz HD2 Webstream |
| Website | now1031.com buzz103.com (HD2) |
WPBZ is located in the West Palm Beach, Florida area and broadcasts at 103.1 FM. Known as "Now 103.1", it is an adult top 40 music station with the slogan "Today's Best Hits Without the Rap".
WPBZ signed on as "103.1 The Buzz" on July 3, 1995 (it was an affiliate of the "Z Rock" radio network before then), and its 90,000-watt signal blankets South Florida's east coast from Hollywood in the south all the way to Sebastian in the north, a span of over 125 miles.
WPBZ's transmitter is located on the west side of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound and is 972 feet high. Also sharing WPBZ's transmitter tower are stations WMBX and WKGR.
WPBZ broadcasts at 103.1 on the FM dial and also broadcasts an HD radio (hybrid digital) signal. It currently broadcasts a Buzz Light sub-channel on its secondary HD signal. Additionally, The Buzz streams the main Buzz, and the Buzz Light broadcast through its website www.buzz103.com.
On December 5, 2011 at 3pm WPBZ changed their format to adult top 40, branded as "Now 103.1". The "Buzz" active rock format moved to the HD2 subchannel, replacing "Buzz Lite".[1] It is the second hot AC station under CBS Radio using the Now FM branding, the first being on Sacramento, California's KZZO. It is reported as contemporary hit radio by CBS Radio, but despite most of the rap being on sister rhythmic contemporary WMBX, it continues to be a hot AC.
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In the mornings, brought back its own local morning show called "The Morning Buzz with Loper, Smitty, & Randi". The show debuted on November 26, 2007. Smitty has now moved on and hosts a nights. Loper continues to host "The Morning Buzz" with new Co-=Host Randi Rasar. Previously, the station syndicated The Howard Stern Show, The David Lee Roth Show, and The Opie & Anthony Show show until 2007-10-29. Prior to this they had "The Morning Buzz with Mark, Genny, & Dahmer" The original program director for The Buzz was Amy Doyle, now of MTV. Since 1996 John O'Connell has been the Program Director.Operations Manager. He currently oversees sister stations Sunny 104.3 and 107.9 WIRK as well.
Specialty music shows include:
Buzz Junior - (Sunday nights at 10:00pm with host Jeremy Steve Clark) - Buzz Junior features new music, unsigned local bands, indie bands, and classic songs.
Rock Hard Buzz - (Saturday nights at 11:00pm with host Metal Mick) - 'Rock Hard Buzz' "...features the heaviest metal and rock songs from past and present".
The Buzz hosts an all-day music festival each year called the "Buzz Bake Sale" which is one of the largest annual music festivals in South Florida. It is usually held on the first Saturday in December in West Palm Beach. The show has always been held at the Cruzan Amphitheatre (formerly known as Sound Advice Amphitheatre). Each year, information about the show is posted at www.buzzbakesale.com. The "Buzz Bake Sale" name was chosen because the first two years featured 13 bands (a "baker's dozen" of bands).
1996: Black River Circus, Local H, Muzzle, Orange 9mm, Patti Rothberg, Pluto, Howlin' Maggie, Primitive Radio Gods, Velocity Girl (their farewell show), Evan Dando (of The Lemonheads, acoustic), Soul Coughing, Butthole Surfers, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
1997: Wobble, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Superdrag, Marcy Playground, Lazlo Bane, The Honeyrods, Save Ferris, Echo & the Bunnymen, Dance Hall Crashers, Less Than Jake, MxPx, Goldfinger, and Green Day.
1998: Athenaeum, The Amazing Royal Crowns, Alien Fashion Show, Sprung Monkey, Shawn Mullins, Possum Dixon, The Urge, Reel Big Fish, Gravity Kills, Soul Coughing, Seven Mary Three, Dishwalla, Better Than Ezra, Fuel, and Goo Goo Dolls.
1999: Bolt Upright, Showoff, The Sheila Divine, Pennywise, Staind, Local H, Joydrop, Stroke 9, Citizen King, Marvelous 3, Powerman 5000, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Guster, Kottonmouth Kings, and Kid Rock.
2000: Orbit, 8Stops7, Wheatus, Veruca Salt, 6Gig, The Union Underground, Harvey Danger, U.P.O., Local H, Our Lady Peace, Fuel, Eve 6, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Everclear, and Foo Fighters. MxPx was scheduled to play but canceled. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ended up playing two sets.
2001: Handsome Devil, New Found Glory, Reveille, Sugarcult, Alien Ant Farm, Jimmy Eat World, Stroke 9, Sum 41, M.A.S.K., Adema, Drowning Pool, Tantric, Lit, Static-X, Disturbed, and Staind.
2002: Marc Copely, Socialburn, OK Go, Seether, Blindside, SR-71, Authority Zero, Bowling for Soup, N*E*R*D, Earshot, Nonpoint, Our Lady Peace, Everclear, Unwritten Law, Good Charlotte, Hoobastank, and Cypress Hill.
2003: M.A.S.K., The Ataris, Switchfoot, Something Corporate, Yellowcard, Fuel, Sevendust, Alien Ant Farm, Jet, Hoobastank, One, Trapt, Eve 6, Smile Empty Soul, Less Than Jake, and Die Trying.
2004: Lit, Taking Back Sunday, The Explosion, The Presidents of the United States of America, One, Muse, Lostprophets, Sevendust, Kottonmouth Kings, The Music, Story of the Year, Nonpoint, Skindred, New Found Glory, The Used, and Korn.
2005: Morningwood, On Watership Down, Sunny Ledfurd, The Fray, Pepper, Art of Dying, 30 Seconds to Mars, Socialburn, Taproot, Nonpoint, One, Hot Hot Heat, Local H, Story of the Year, Trapt, Our Lady Peace, My Chemical Romance, and Staind.
2006: Cartel, Kill Hannah, One, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Flyleaf, Sugarcult, Reel Big Fish, Anberlin, Buckcherry, Hawthorne Heights, 30 Seconds to Mars, Three Days Grace, Taking Back Sunday, Papa Roach, and My Chemical Romance.
2007: Sick Puppies, Fiction Plane, The Starting Line, The Almost, Saosin, Silversun Pickups, Against Me!, Chevelle, Nonpoint, Coheed and Cambria, Paramore, The Used, Rise Against, Three Days Grace, and Papa Roach.
2008: Sponge, Anberlin, Jack's Mannequin, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Flogging Molly, Saving Abel, Mayday Parade, Pepper, Flobots, Skindred, Hawthorne Heights, Reel Big Fish, Saliva, Atreyu, Shinedown, and Avenged Sevenfold.[2]
2009: Ladies and Gentlemen, Halestorm, After Midnight Project, Fall of Envy, Transmit Now, Metric, Say Anything, Dharmata, Manchester Orchestra, Sick Puppies, Anberlin, The Mission Veo, Our Lady Peace, Cage the Elephant, Atom Smash, Panic! at the Disco, Skindred, The Used, Matisyahu, Chevelle, and 30 Seconds to Mars.
2010: Stellar Revival, D.V.N.O., Hollywood Love Scene, A Silent Film, American Bang, New Politics, Hawthorne Heights, A Day to Remember, Paper Tongues, Fall of Envy, Against Me!, Leading the Heroes, Sick Puppies, Anberlin, Atom Smash, Switchfoot, Pepper, The Dirty Heads (featuring Rome Ramirez), Chevelle, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Finger Eleven.
2011: Falling in Reverse, One:, Middle Class Rut, Everlast, Art of Dying, Hinder, Behold the Wolf, Adelitas Way, Chevelle, Dharmata, Seether, and Awolnation.
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