WOZN (AM)
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| City | Madison, Wisconsin |
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| Branding | 106.7FM/1670AM The Zone |
| Slogan | Madison's Sports Talk Station |
| Frequency | 1670 kHz AM |
| Repeater(s) | WOZN-FM (106.7 MHz FM) (simulcast) |
| First air date | 1948 (as WISC at 1480) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 10,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 87154 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°01′31.00″N 89°23′46.00″W / 43.0252778°N 89.3961111°W |
| Former callsigns | WISC (1948-?) WISM (?-11/26/1984) WTDY (1984-2012) WOZN (2012-2015) WUSW (2015) |
| Former frequencies | 1480 (kHz) AM (1948-1998; simulcast w/ 1670 AM, 1998-2002) |
| Affiliations | CBS Sports Radio |
| Owner |
Mid-West Family Broadcasting (Mid-West Management, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WHIT, WJJO, WJQM, WLMV, WMGN, WOZN-FM, WWQM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | MadCitySportsZone.com |
WOZN ("The Zone") is a sports talk radio station licensed to and serving Madison, Wisconsin. Owned and operated by Mid-West Family Broadcasting, WOZN broadcasts on 1670 AM, and is also simulcast on WOZN-FM (106.7), which is licensed to Mount Horeb and whose signal covers Western portions of Dane County, Wisconsin.
The station began operating in 1948 at the 1480 AM frequency under the call letters WISC, which were eventually changed to WISM. For years, WISM was the popular Top 40 radio station in Madison and was the first station in Wisconsin to broadcast in AM stereo in the early 1980s ("Both Sides Now" by Judy Collins was the first song WISM played in AM Stereo). In 1984, the WTDY call letters were adopted, which originally stood for "Today Radio," a format that featured a mix of music, news, sports and weather, with the station eventually moving to a full news/talk format. WTDY would relocate to the 1670 AM frequency in 2002, and would add an FM simulcast, at 106.7, by the end of 2011 (see below), a simulcast that continues today as WOZN and WOZN-FM. In 2017, Philadelphia station 96.5 took over the WTDY-FM call letters to match their new brand as "Today's 96.5", after flipping from contemporary hits to Mainstream AC, with 80s and 90s rhythmic tracks from artists like Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Michael, Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston.
As a talk station, WTDY featured a schedule with various hosts (national or local) and viewpoints (liberal, conservative, bipartisan, or apolitical). WTDY's schedule over the years featured such national hosts as Tom Leykis, Bill O'Reilly, Art Bell, and Rush Limbaugh (the station was one of The Rush Limbaugh Show's original affiliates). WTDY's local hosts over the years included Debbie Monterrey, Casey Hoff, Shawn Prebil, and Mark Belling, who worked at WTDY in its early period as a talk station before gaining prominence at Milwaukee's WISN. Perhaps WTDY's most recognizable local figure was John "Sly" Sylvester; a longtime Madison radio personality, "Sly" began a 15-year run at WTDY in 1997, and was mainly heard in the morning slot ("Sly in the Morning") except for a brief period in middays in the mid-2000s. Employing an acerbic, provocative style on-air, "Sly" displayed his own wide-ranging political viewpoints, though he gained notoriety for his open support of pro-union protests against the controversial Act 10 legislation passed by the Wisconsin Legislature in 2011.
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