WJZQ
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| City | Cadillac, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | Cadillac-Traverse City |
| Branding | Z93 |
| Slogan | Today's Best Hits |
| Frequency | 92.9 MHz |
| First air date | 1961 (as WWTV-FM) |
| Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 278 meters (912 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 5207 |
| Callsign meaning | Smooth JazZ Q (previous format) |
| Former callsigns | WKJF-FM (1/1/82-7/1/01) WKJF (?-1/1/82) WWTV-FM (1961-?) |
| Owner | Midwestern Broadcasting Company |
| Sister stations | WATZ-FM, WBCM, WCCW, WCCW-FM, WRGZ, WTCM, WTCM-FM, WZTK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | z93hits.com |
WJZQ 92.9 Cadillac/Traverse City is a 100,000-watt radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format as Z93. It is owned by Ross Biederman's Midwestern Broadcasting, who also owns WTCM-AM/FM and WCCW-AM/FM, all in Traverse City, MI.
WJZQ was originally WWTV-FM, co-owned with WWTV, then at channel 13. It was signed on in 1961 by John Fetzer, a well-known TV station owner in the midwest and a longtime owner of the Detroit Tigers baseball team.
The station's transmitter was on the fabled "Fetzer Mountain" in Osceola County, which was one of the highest points in Michigan. Many would claim that you could hear WKJF-FM on a good radio almost anywhere in Michigan. During some conditions, it can be heard as far south as Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The station aired beautiful music, but began simulcasting WWAM's "top-40" format when that station signed on in 1968 [1]. Later, it split from the simulcast and its call letters were changed to WKJF (Kalamazoo's John Fetzer). In the 1980s, WKJF was airing adult contemporary music. In the early 1990s, the station was sold to Ross Biederman, who flipped the formats of both stations. WKJF-AM became a simulcast of news/talk WTCM-AM in Traverse City, and eventually standards, then sports WCCW (AM) also in Traverse City, and WKJF-FM became a WTCM-FM clone, marketing itself as WTCM though they only simulcasted part of the time, plus WKJF played more classic country than their Traverse City sister, and referred its own call letters only hourly with the FCC-mandated station identification.
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