WEDR
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| City | Miami |
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| Broadcast area | South Florida and some of the Caribbean |
| Branding | 99 Jamz |
| Slogan | "South Florida's Only Station for Hip Hop and R&B" |
| Frequency | 99.1 MHz |
| First air date | May 18, 1963 |
| Format | Mainstream Urban |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 280 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 71418 |
| Callsign meaning | Eurith D. Rivers (former Georgia Governor, same person WGOV-FM Valdosta, Georgia is named for) |
| Owner |
Cox Media Group (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WFLC, WFEZ, WHQT |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wedr.com |
WEDR (99.1 FM, "99 Jamz") is an urban-formatted radio station serving the South Florida region and licensed to Miami, Florida. WEDR has an unusually wide music selection for a mainstream urban-formatted radio station that ranges from typical hip-hop and R&B to reggaeton. This is because South Florida is a very diversified region that has various music tastes. WEDR is owned by Cox Media Group alongside sister stations WHQT, WFEZ and WFLC, and has their studios located in Hollywood, Florida.
WEDR has an unusually shaped coverage area due to the station moving its antenna from a class C to a class C1 on a new tower (based near Miami Gardens. The main reasoning behind this so that the station's signal doesn't interfere with the close frequencies that serve southwestern Florida. It also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity in Summer 2005.
1963 – The WEDR call letters have been in South Florida since 1963 when the station's then owner Ed Rivers acquired them from an AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama. WEDR-FM had rock and country music formats.
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