WCAZ (AM)

WCAZ is a daytimer radio station licensed to Macomb, Illinois on 1510 kHz. It broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music radio format.

WCAZ
CityMacomb, Illinois
Frequency1510 kHz
BrandingPositive 93.1FM-1510AM
SloganFaith Family Community
Programming
FormatContemporary Christian music
Ownership
OwnerHancock County Broadcasting, LLC
WJEQ, WKAI, WLMD, WMQZ, WNLF[1]
History
First air date
1947
Former call signs
WKAI (1947-1984)
WLRB (1984-2016)
WYEC (2016-2018)
Technical information
ClassD
Power1,000 watts (daytime)
250 watts (critical hours)
Translator(s)93.1 MHz (W226CH)
Links
Websiteregionalmedia.info/stations/positive-93-1-am-1510-wlrb

Because WCAZ shares the same frequency as clear-channel station WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee, WCAZ broadcasts only during the daytime.

For a time, the then-WLRB was running a Music of Your Life radio network, but Jones Radio Networks divested it in favor of its own Jones Standards format. As Dial Global acquired Jones, the "Jones Standards" network was dissolved and "America's Best Music" took its place. WLRB later switched to talk programming.

WLRB was owned by Prairie Radio Communications/WPW Broadcasting, Inc. until January 2009, when was bought by Nancy Foster's Colchester Radio, Inc. to become part of Prestige Communications.[2][3]

Effective November 30, 2015, WLRB and five sister stations were sold to Fletcher Ford's Virden Broadcasting Corp. at a purchase price of $725,000. The station changed its call sign to WYEC on August 31, 2016.

Effective September 24, 2018, WYEC and translator W226CH were sold by Virden Broadcasting to Hancock County Broadcasting, LLC for $75,000. The new owners changed the station's call sign to WCAZ on the same day, and flipped the station's format from talk to full-service classic country.

References
  1. Colchester Radio, Inc. (2009-02-04). "FCC Form 323: Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Stations (File No. BOS-20090209ADM)". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
  2. Ford, Bill (2009-07-17). "Local radio stations sold". Macomb Journal. Macomb, Illinois: Gatehouse Media.
  3. Colchester Radio, Inc. (2009-01-06). "Consummation Notice (FCC File No. BALH-20080717ABN)". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-07-25.


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