WCAZ (AM)

WCAZ
City	Macomb, Illinois
Frequency	1510 kHz
Branding	Positive 93.1FM-1510AM
Programming
Format	Contemporary Christian music
Ownership
Owner	Hancock County Broadcasting, LLC
Sister stations	WJEQ, WKAI, WLMD, WMQZ, WNLF
History
First air date	1947
Former call signs	WKAI (1947-1984); WLRB (1984-2016); WYEC (2016-2018)
Technical information
Class	D
Power	1,000 watts (daytime); 250 watts (critical hours)
Translator(s)	99.1 MHz W256DZ (Macomb)
Links
Website	regionalmedia.info/stations/positive-93-1-am-1510-wlrb

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

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.

Former logo[]

References[]

^ 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.
^ Ford, Bill (2009-07-17). "Local radio stations sold". Macomb Journal. Macomb, Illinois: Gatehouse Media.
^ Colchester Radio, Inc. (2009-01-06). "Consummation Notice (FCC File No. BALH-20080717ABN)". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-07-25.

External links[]

WCAZ in the FCC AM station database
WCAZ on Radio-Locator
WCAZ in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

W256DZ in the FCC FM station database

Coordinates: 40°29′50″N 90°40′30″W / 40.49722°N 90.67500°W / 40.49722; -90.67500

[fcc323-adm-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.

[fcc905-abn-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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