WXDJ
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| City | Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Broadcast area | West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood |
| Branding | El Zol 106.7 |
| Frequency | 106.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | August 15, 1962 (as WFTL-FM) |
| Format | Spanish Tropical/Salsa |
| Audience share | 1.8 (Sp'08 P2, R&R) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 300 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 66376 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°59′34.00″N 80°10′27.00″W / 25.9927778°N 80.1741667°W |
| Former callsigns | WFTL-FM (1962-1974) WGLO (1974-1979) WSDO-FM (1979-1982) WWJF (1982-1984) WJQY (1984-1993) WTPX (1993-1994) WRMA (1994-2014) |
| Owner |
Spanish Broadcasting System (WRMA Licensing, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WRMA, WCMQ-FM, WRAZ-FM, WMFM, WSBS-TV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | elzol.com |
WXDJ (106.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Tropical format. Licensed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, the station serves the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood area. The station is currently owned by WRMA Licensing, Inc. The station is also broadcast on HD radio.
The station is currently owned by Spanish Broadcasting System.
This station has quite a history on the frequency of 106.7 FM. It started out on August 15, 1962 as WFTL-FM, sister to 1400 WFTL. In the mid to late 1970s, it was WGLO with a beautiful music format. In the late 1970s, it was WSDO-FM ("Studio 107"). WWJF ("The Joy Of Florida") (1982) later became WJQY on (12/10/1984). Joy 107 FM achieved high ratings with a Lite Adult Contemporary format for nine years until the Miami radio demographics changed. Joy-107's programming consisted of Transtar's syndicated, satellite delivered "Format-41" service.
Station owner Tak Communications wanted to rebrand from Joy 107 to something more modern and fresh. Calls were changed to WTPX (for "Tropics 106.7 FM"), with a Hot Adult Contemporary format established on July 15, 1993. WTPX only lasted 9 months according to the FCC call sign change database. Tak Communications failed at bringing up the poor 2 share 12 plus Arbitron ratings. Tak filed bankruptcy in the early 1990s, and EZ Communications got two of the three Tak radio stations, WTPX and Philadelphia's WUSL, in October 1993.
EZ did not own WTPX very long as they swapped WHQT 105.1 to Cox for WSOC-FM in Charlotte and decided to exit Miami altogether. They could not sell WTPX to Cox, too, because ownership rules prohibited more than two FM's, and Cox already owned WFLC 97.3. So, EZ sold 106.7 FM to SBS (Spanish Broadcasting System) and the calls were changed on October 24, 1994, to WRMA and the station transitioned to a Spanish language format on 12:05am on that date. The last English song that was played on WTPX from 11:53pm until midnight was Donna Summer's "Last Dance", then a short good bye from Joy 107 Veteran & South Florida radio veteran George Sheldon mentioning the past of the 106.7 FM frequency in Southeast Florida by mentioning former call signs WFTL-FM, WGLO, WSDO, WWJF, WJQY, and WTPX. After the top of the hour legal ID, there was about 10 minutes of dead air and then the new Spanish format WRMA-FM made its mark on South Florida radio. The first song was Jon Secada's Spanish version of "Just Another Day". In 2010, WRMA went from playing a lot of new music, often from unfamiliar artists, to a focus on the 1990s and 2000s, with few new songs. However, the move did not click with listeners as it started to see a decline in the ratings.
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