WZZP
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| City of license | Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
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| Broadcast area | Clarksville-Hopkinsville area |
| Branding | Z97.5 Everything That Rocks |
| Frequency | 97.5 MHz |
| Format | Active Rock |
| Audience share | 6.0, #5 (Fa'07, R&R[1]) |
| ERP | 6,000 watts - |
| HAAT | 100.0 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 83979 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°45′47.00″N 87°26′59.00″W / 36.76306°N 87.44972°W |
| Former callsigns | WTNK (2000) |
| Owner | Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Z975.com |
WZZP ("Z97.5") is an Active Rock radio station that serves Clarksville, Tennessee, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Owned by Saga Communications, it debuted with a Classic Hits format in 2000, switching to the active rock format in 2003. WZZP operates at 3000 watts from an antenna located in Hopkinsville.
Saga Communications also operates WVVR 100.3 Country, WEGI 94.3 Classic Hits, WCVQ 107.9 Adult Contemporary, and WKFN 540 AM Sports, as a cluster from its main offices in Clarksville.
Southern Broadcasting, Inc., with its President Thomas T. Cassetty applied to the FCC for a construction permit to build WZZP FM on November 9, 1999. According to FCC records, the station began as WTNK- FM which stood for “T) Tennessee aNd K) entucky on June 29, 2000. The station changed calls to the present day WZZP- FM on October 20, 2000. Saga Communications, purchased the station from Southern Broadcasting, Inc.
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[edit] History
The station went on the air as WTNK on 2000-06-29. on 2000-10-20, the station changed its call sign to the current WZZP.[2]
The call sign WZZP, with branding Zip 106, from March 21, 1977, to March 5, 1984, was applied to what is now WHLK in the Cleveland, Ohio market.
From November 12, 1984, to September 2, 1991, WZZP was applied to what is now WRBR-FM in the South Bend, Indiana market.[3]
[edit] See also
- KAZR (FM) "103.3 Everything That Rocks", Saga's Des Moines, Iowa station of the same format.
- WLZX 99.3 "Everything That Rocks", Saga's Northampton, MA station of the same format.
[edit] References
- ^ "Clarksville-Hopkinsville Market Ratings". Radio and Records. http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRRatings/DefaultSearch.aspx?MarketName=Clarksville-Hopkinsville&MarketRank=%20.
- ^ "WZZP Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=83979&Callsign=WZZP.
- ^ "WRBR-FM 103.9 South Bend, IN". Michiguide.com.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WZZP
- Radio-Locator information on WZZP
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WZZP
Radio stations in the Clarksville, TN-Hopkinsville, KYmarket By FM frequency By AM frequency By callsign Tennessee Radio Markets: Chattanooga • Clarksville • Cookeville • Jackson • Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol • Knoxville • Memphis • Nashville
See also: List of radio stations in TennesseeKentucky Radio Markets: Ashland • Bowling Green • Cincinnati, OH • Hopkinsville • Lexington-Fayette • Louisville
Other Kentucky Radio Regions: Owensboro
See also: List of radio stations in Kentucky
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