WDZZ-FM

WDZZ-FM

City of license	Flint, Michigan
Broadcast area	[1]
Branding	Z92.7
Slogan	The Best Variety of Old School and Today's R&B
Frequency	92.7 MHz
First air date	September 29, 1979
Format	Urban Adult Contemporary
ERP	3,000 watts
HAAT	100 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	13665
Transmitter coordinates	43°00′57″N 83°41′24″W
Callsign meaning	DaZZ (Named after song by R&B group Artist Brick)
Former callsigns	??
Owner	Cumulus Broadcasting
Sister stations	WFBE, WTRX (AM), WWCK-AM, WWCK-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wdzz.com

WDZZ-FM (92.7 FM, "Z92.7") is a radio station broadcasting an urban adult contemporary format, licensed to Flint, Michigan.

History

WDZZ was founded by Vernon Merritt in 1979 as the Flint area's first FM station to target African-American audiences, playing a mixture of disco music and jazz which eventually evolved into mainstream Urban Contemporary. It is believed that the call letters were a tribute to the song "Dazz" by the group Brick; "Dazz" was an amalgamation of "disco" and "jazz".

Before the signon of 92.7, WAMM 1420 now WFLT served as Flint's Rhythm & Blues Station.

WDZZ would become Mainstream Urban with the addition of Hip Hop in 1989 and was using the Moniker "DZ93".

WDZZ has gone through several R&B formats including Mainstream Urban (including rap and hip-hop tracks) and Gospel on Sunday Mornings. The station is licensed for and formerly broadcast in HD Radio, the only one of Cumulus Media's Flint stations to do so. The station no longer broadcasts in HD as of March 2012 despite the station's RDS readout continuing to show as "WDZZ-HD".

In 1998 WDZZ, WWCK, and WRSR were sold from Connoisseur to Cumulus Media.

Current DJ's include Tom Joyner, August, Dr. Lee Bell, Keith Sweat and Sunday Morning Gospel Host Sam Williams.

Sources

• Michiguide.com - WDZZ-FM History

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WDZZ
• Radio-Locator information on WDZZ
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WDZZ