WWZY
| City | Long Branch, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Monmouth-Ocean-Atlantic-Middlesex County, New Jersey |
| Branding | 107.1 The Boss |
| Slogan | Classic Rock From the 70's, 80's and More! |
| Frequency | 107.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1960 (as WRLB) |
| Format | Classic rock |
| Language(s) | English |
| ERP | 5,000 watts |
| HAAT | 110 metres (360 ft) |
| Class | 296A |
| Facility ID | 32983 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°18′17″N 73°59′08″W / 40.304722°N 73.985556°WCoordinates: 40°18′17″N 73°59′08″W / 40.304722°N 73.985556°W |
| Callsign meaning | Onetime member of the regional WYNY "Y-107" quadcast |
| Former callsigns | WRLB (1960-1981) WWUU (1981-1982) WMJY (1982-1989) WZVU (1989-1997) |
| Owner | Press Communications, LLC |
| Sister stations | WJLP-DT, KJWP-DT, WHTG, WKMK / WTHJ, WBBO |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WWZY is a classic rock music formatted radio station in Long Branch, New Jersey, referred to as "107.1 The Boss". "107.1 FM" is simulcast on 99.7 WBHX/Tuckerton.
"107.1 FM" was simulcast to Southern Ocean County New Jersey on 99.7 WBHX in Tuckerton, New Jersey from June 30, 2003 to November 1, 2015. The WBHX transmitter is located on Long Beach Island in the town of Beach Haven, NJ. The station is also played throughout most of the day in southern Ocean County on WCAT-TV, the public-access television cable TV channel serving Pinelands Regional High School. With the flip to classic rock, the WBHX simulcast was restarted, although the only mention of 99.7 is at the top-of-the-hour station ID.
107.1 was founded in 1960 as WRLB. At the time, the station's owner was afforded the possibility of broadcasting with 50,000 watts, but he declined, thinking that FM radio had limited potential. Therefore, the station signed on with 3,000-watts from a tower located in Long Branch, NJ. The studios were located adjacent to the tower. WWZY still uses the same tower location (with actually the third different tower on the site), although the studios are now in Neptune, NJ. When the Long Branch 107.1 did not utilize 50,000 watts, the Federal Communications Commission subsequently assigned 107.1s to Briarcliff Manor, NY (north of New York City), Belvidere, NJ (near Stroudsburg, PA) and Patchogue, NY (Long Island). These area 107.1s would later haunt the Long Branch allocation with interference in fringe areas.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, WRLB was a "full-service" station, broadcasting big-band music, high school sports and local news. An Italian program aired on Sunday. Competition was mainly from the Asbury Park Press' radio station, WJLK-AM-FM, which aired similar full-service programming.
In 1969, WRLB revamped its programming continuing with adult "middle of the road" music from 6 a.m. until midnight when it switched to rock/top40 music hosted and pioneered by Charlie Roberts who was the first disk jockey in New Jersey to play rock on a commercial FM radio station; the program was called The Subway (an homage to Dick Summer at WBZ in Boston who was Charlie's mentor when he was at Boston University). His first song selection was "Road Runner" by Junior Walker and the All Stars. On occasion, he would have live in-studio guests including the progressive rock band Vanilla Fudge.
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