WEZF
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| City | Burlington, Vermont |
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| Broadcast area | Northern Vermont |
| Branding | Star 92.9 |
| Slogan | The '90s To Now Your Christmas Music Station (Nov.-Dec.) |
| Frequency | 92.9 MHz |
| First air date | 1969 (as WVNY-FM) |
| Format |
Hot Adult Contemporary Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.) |
| ERP | 46,000 watts |
| HAAT | 824 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 35232 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°31′40.00″N 72°48′58.00″W / 44.5277778°N 72.8161111°W |
| Callsign meaning | EZ Favorites |
| Former callsigns | WVNY-FM (1969-?) |
| Affiliations | Premiere Radio Networks |
| Owner | Vox AM/FM, LLC |
| Sister stations | WCPV, WEAV, WXZO, WVTK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | star929.com |
WEZF (92.9 FM, "Star 92.9") is an English-language American radio station located in Burlington, Vermont. The station airs a hot adult contemporary format.
Owned and operated by Vox AM/FM (it was a Clear Channel Communications station until 2008), it broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 46,000 watts (class C) using an omnidirectional antenna. WEZF is the only full commercial class C radio station in Vermont. The advantage of having both the effective radiated power ERP and a transmitting antenna location on top of Vermont's highest mountaintop, Mount Mansfield, affords WEZF a tremendous reach throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Quebec (including Montreal), some parts of western Maine, and areas of extreme Eastern Ontario. This is roughly higher in terms of the ERP than Montreal adult contemporary station CKBE-FM, owned by Cogeco.
WEZF went on the air on July 19, 1969 and was originally known as WVNY-FM; that call sign is now used by a local television station previously co-owned and known as WVNY-TV, which signed on the air before its FM counterpart. [1]. WEZF was unique in that the station was originally launched as an offshoot of WVNY-TV, and never had a companion AM station. This unique situation made WEZF the first standalone FM station in Vermont. Traditionally, most FM stations were originally launched by a companion AM station. The station originally had a beautiful music format, changing to soft adult contemporary in the 1980s, and retained the 93 WEZF branding. In 1995, the station became more of a mainstream AC and rebranded as 92.9 WEZF.
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