WHTZ
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| City | Newark, New Jersey |
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| Broadcast area | New York City area |
| Branding | Z100 |
| Slogan | New York's #1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency |
100.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) SiriusXM ch. 12 |
| First air date | June 1, 1961 |
| Format | FM/HD1: Top 40 (CHR) HD2: Nick Radio |
| ERP | 6,000 watts |
| HAAT | 415 meters (1,362 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 59953 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°44′54.00″N 73°59′10.00″W / 40.7483333°N 73.9861111°W |
| Callsign meaning | HiTZ |
| Former callsigns | WHNF (1942–48; 1947–48 on 100.3) WMGM-FM (1948–55) WVNJ-FM (1961–83) |
| Affiliations |
Premiere Networks Nick Radio (on HD2) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (AMFM Radio Licenses, L.L.C.) |
| Sister stations | WAXQ, WKTU, WLTW, WOR, WWPR-FM |
| Webcast | FM/HD1: Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) HD2: Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | FM/HD1: z100 HD2: nickradio |
WHTZ (100.3 FM) – branded Z100 – is a commercial Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York City metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WHTZ serves as the flagship station for Elvis Duran and the Morning Show and the New York affiliate for On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The WHTZ studios are located in the AT&T Building in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York City, while the station transmitter resides atop the Empire State Building.
Besides a standard analog transmission, WHTZ broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via iHeartRadio. The station also simulcasts over channel 12 on SiriusXM satellite radio.
The call letters are supposed to represent the word "hits" with a Z; indeed, an early advertising campaign for the earlier days of station claimed that HTZ was "Finally, there's a new way to spell Hitz!"
100.3 began as WHNF (for WHN FM) in the early 1940s broadcasting on 46.3 mc, which played easy listening music which was co-owned with 1050 WHN (frequency now occupied by WEPN, now WFAN on 660 AM). After WHN changed their call letters to WMGM in 1948, WHNF, by this time now broadcasting on 100.3, followed suit by changing their call letters to WMGM-FM. That station shut down in February 1955 and its owners turned the license over to the FCC.
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