WZLR

Broadcast area	Dayton, Ohio
Branding	95.3 and 101.1 The Eagle
Slogan	Dayton's 80's Rock
Translator(s)	101.1 W266BG (Dayton)
Repeater(s)	99.1-2 WHKO-HD2
Format	80s Classic hits
ERP	6,000 watts
HAAT	98 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	15649
Callsign meaning	W Z CLeaR
Former callsigns	WBZI (1974-1988) WDJK (1988-1993) WZLR (1993-2000) WDTP (2000-2002)
Owner	Cox Media Group (Cox Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations	WHIO, WHIO-FM, WHIO-TV, WHKO
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	95.3 and 101.1 The Eagle

WZLR (95.3 FM), known as "95.3 and 101.1 The Eagle", is a radio station broadcasting an 1980s classic hits format. Licensed to Xenia, Ohio, United States, it serves the Dayton area. According to the Federal Communications Commission's website, the station has transmitted at 6,000 watts since 1998. Its studios are co-located with the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-AM-FM-TV and two more radio stations in the Cox Media Center building near downtown Dayton. WZLR has a transmitter in Xenia. The station is currently owned by Cox Media Group. This is the third time it has offered an 1980s format; it was previously known as Power 95 in the early 1990s and as The Point in the early 2000s.

Originally WBZI the FM sister of the former WGIC-AM which employed numerous formats from southern gospel in the mid 1970s, adult contemporary in the late 1970s (as "I-95" following a format and AM/FM frequency swap) then switching to country in 1980. The station was always the 'also ran' to WONE which owned the country music audience in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1988 the station flipped from country to a national AC satellite format. It was a low ratings performer since both WVUD-FM (99.9) and WWSN-FM (107.7) both were successful Adult Contemporary stations. In the later part of 1989 the station dumped the satellite format in favor of local AC. During the year the station began adding CHR titles and completed the move to CHR/POP in 1990.

In the latter part of 1990, the station became CHR/Pop "DJ 95". This name lasted for two years until June 1992, when the station retained the CHR/Pop format and became known as "Power 95", following the playing of Boyz II Men's "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" 953 times in a row. The CHR/Pop format would last until July, 1993, when the station was put up for sale, at which time the station decided to flip to an '80s Oldies format, the first time such a format had been tried in the country. Once the station was sold, on August 10, 1993, following the playing of Night Ranger's "Goodbye", the '80s Oldies format was dropped as well as the entire airstaff for an FM simulcast of sister station 1500 WBZI, retaining the WDJK calls.

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