KWDZ

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KWDZ
City of license	Salt Lake City, Utah
Broadcast area	Salt Lake City
Frequency	910 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1945^[1]
Format	Silent
Power	5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	2445
Transmitter coordinates	40°30′48″N 112°0′23″W / 40.51333°N 112.00639°W / 40.51333; -112.00639
Callsign meaning	K Walt DiZney
Former callsigns	1945-2003: KALL
Owner	The Walt Disney Company (sale pending) (Radio Disney Group, LLC)

The radio towers for KWDZ are located near South Jordan, Utah.

KWDZ (910 AM) is a radio station (currently on Silent) licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and serves the Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by the Walt Disney Company.^[2] The stations radio towers are located south of Salt Lake City, in South Jordan, Utah.

History

Radio Disney AM 910 logos used from 2008-2010 (up) and 2010-2013 (down).

The station went on the air as KALL, broadcasting a sports talk format. KALL moved frequencies and its call sign to 700 kHz, and on April 30, 2003, the station changed its call sign to the current KWDZ.^[3]

The station was originally founded in 1945 and owned by Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hatch and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hinkley. In 1946, John F. Fitzpatrick, publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune (owned by the Kearns Corporation), representing the Tribune, purchased fifty percent interest in the station from the owners. The Tribune's interest (Kearns-Tribune, Corp.) sold its interest in 1954 to permit its owner (Kearns-Tribune, Corp.) to apply for a license to buy a television license and to purchase a fifty percent ownership in KUTV Channel 2.^[4]

In June 2013, Disney put KWDZ and six other Radio Disney stations in medium markets up for sale, in order to refocus the network's broadcast distribution on top-25 markets.^[5]

In August 17, 2013, KWDZ dropped the Radio Disney affiliation and went Silent.^[6]

References

↑ "KALL First Air Date". Broadcasting Telecasting Yearbook. 1950. p. 305. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
↑ "KWDZ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "KWDZ Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ Malmquist, O.N.:The Salt Lake Tribune-The First 100 Years, 1971, pp. 389.
↑ Graser, Marc (June 4, 2013). "Radio Disney Stations Up for Sale (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
↑ Notification of Suspension of Operations KWDZ - United States Federal Communications Commission

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KWDZ

Radio-Locator Information on KWDZ

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KWDZ

v t e Radio stations in the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo, Utah market

by FM frequency	88.1 88.1 88.3 88.7 89.1 90.1 90.9 91.5 91.7 91.7 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.5 95.9 95.9 96.3 96.7 96.7 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.7 106.1 106.5 106.9 107.5 107.9

by AM frequency	570 610 630 700 730 820 860 910 960 1010 1060 1120 1160 1230 1280 1320 1370 1400 1430 1450 1490 1510 1550 1600 1640 1660

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

by callsign	KAAZ-FM KALL KANN KAUU KBEE KBER KBJA KBLQ-FM KBMG KBYU KBZN KCPW-FM KDUT KDYL KEC78 KEGA KEGH KENZ KEYY KFNZ KGNT KHTB KIHU KJMY KJQS KKAT KKEX KKLV KLLB KLZX KMRI KLO KLO-FM KMGR KNIV KNKL KNRS KNRS-FM KODJ KOGN KOHS KOVO KPGR KQMB KRCL KRSP KSFI KSL AM and FM KSOP KSOP-FM KSRR KSVN KTCE KTKK KTUB KUBL-FM KUDD KUDE KUER KUFR KUSU KUTR KUUU KVFX KVNU KWCR KWDZ KXOL KXRK KYFO KYMV KZHT KZNS KZNS-FM

Transmitter sites	Ensign Peak Farnsworth Peak Lake Mountain

Utah radio markets Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Other Utah radio regions St. George-Cedar City Central Utah See also List of radio stations in Utah

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Radio Disney	KDDZ KDIS KDIS-FM KDIZ KDZR KIID KKDZ KMIC KMIK KMKI KMKY KPHN¹ KRDY KWDZ¹ WDDZ WDWD WDYZ WFDF WGFY WKSH* WMKI WMYM WQEW WRDZ WRDZ-FM WSDZ WWMI WWMK

ESPN Radio/Deportes	KESN KSPN WEPN WEPN-FM² WMVP

¹ Sale pending. Buyer is anonymous or is unannounced at this time.
² Owned by Emmis Communications, operated by Disney under an LMA.
AaBbCc Sale to Salem Communications pending.
AaBbCc Operated by Cumulus Media under an LMA.
* = Sale to Wilkins Parent Corporation pending.

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