FM Technical Profile: WZAL

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Station Name:

The Country Road

Frequency:

99.9

Format:

Classic Country, Local

Transmitter Location:

[map] [street view] [bird's eye] On a tower atop the hill next to the intersection of US-31 and CR-11 near downtown Alabaster.

Power (ERP):

23 watts

Antenna:

Omnidirectional

Antenna HAAT:

202 feet

Other Information:

60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.
:
PS-The Country Road
Time-[?]
Text-[?]
PTY-Top 40
PI-WZAL-FM

More Information:

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[Image] RDS display data as shown on a Mazda OEM stereo, from 2020.
[Studio] Street View image of the station's studio next to the Alabaster City Hall on Highway 31.

Owner:

Alabaster Broadcasting and Community Radio

History:

This station originally was granted a construction permit in February 2014, for a site off Kent Dairy Road at Christ's Way in Alabaster.  That was amended in July to the current tower location.  The station, which began broadcasting sometime early in August 2014, is being promoted as playing a wide-variety of music, as well as local talk programming.

The station appears to have dropped their longtime "APH Radio" branding (representing Alabamaster, Pelham and Helena) for "Z-Mix 99.9" in 2021.  In the fall of 2021, the station flipped to a Classic Country format as "The Country Road".