WCPZ
WCPZ (102.7 FM) – branded Mix 102.7 FM – is a commercial adult contemporary music radio station licensed to Sandusky, Ohio, serving Sandusky, Port Clinton, and the Lake Erie Islands region in north central Ohio. WCPZ is owned by BAS Broadcasting, and in addition to a standard analog transmission, the station is available online.
City | Sandusky, Ohio |
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Broadcast area | Sandusky-Port Clinton, Ohio Lake Erie Islands |
Frequency | 102.7 MHz |
Branding | Mix 102.7 |
Programming | |
Format | Hot adult contemporary |
Affiliations | Westwood One |
Ownership | |
Owner | BAS Broadcasting, Inc. (BAS Broadcasting, Inc.) |
Sister stations | WFRO-FM, WLEC, WMJK, WOHF, WTTF |
History | |
First air date | August 15, 1959 |
Former call signs | WLEC-FM (1959–80) WCPZ (1980–98) WMTX (1998) WMJK (1998–99) WCPZ (1999–present) |
Call sign meaning | Cedar Point Z |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 19706 |
Class | B |
ERP | 50,000 watts |
HAAT | 41 meters |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°26′28.00″N 82°41′14.00″W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | mix1027 |
History
The station began as WLEC-FM on August 15, 1959 and was the FM sister to AM station WLEC.[1] It became WCPZ on May 19, 1980, and featured an Album Oriented Rock format during the early and mid-1980s. Bob Bedi was the station's program director during the AOR era. In 1986, WCPZ dropped AOR for a CHR/adult contemporary hybrid which would soon become known as Hot Adult Contemporary, which has been the station's format since.
Following the sale of the station to Jacor Communications in September 1996, WCPZ eventually took the "Mix" banner used by Jacor's other Hot AC stations in the region, notably the now-defunct WVMX in Cincinnati and WMVX in Cleveland.
As a result, the call letters changed to WMTX on April 24, 1998, with the WCPZ calls moving to the 100.9 facility in Clyde (today WMJK).
The station regained the WCPZ calls on September 9, 1999, but kept use of the "Mix" banner on all other times. WMJK-FM, licensed to Clyde, Ohio as classic rocker "100.9 The Coast" (now country station "100.9 Coast Country") along with WLEC-AM and WCPZ-FM, made up Clear Channel's Vacationland cluster, having succeeded Jacor in 1999.
On November 16, 2006, WCPZ, WLEC and WMJK were announced for sale as part of Clear Channel's divestiture of almost 450 small and middle-market radio properties in the U.S.
The cluster was sold on January 15, 2008 to Fremont-based BAS Broadcasting, and BAS took over all three stations on February 1.
WCPZ was expected to drop the "Mix" name following the sale, as the "Mix" moniker is used on many Clear Channel stations; however, it did not. BAS Broadcasting did, however, replace most local programming with the "AC Active" format from Waitt Radio Networks (now Dial Global Local).
The morning show – hosted by longtime local radio personality Randy Hugg – remains live and local.[2]
References
External links
- Official website
- WCPZ in the FCC's FM station database
- WCPZ on Radio-Locator
- WCPZ in Nielsen Audio's FM station database