AM Technical Profile: WZTQ
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- Frequency:
- 1560
- Format:
- Religious
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[street
view] East of Centre on US-411, between County Roads 441-D and
936.
- Power (ERP):
- Day: 1 kW
- Antenna:
- Day: 1 tower
- Other
Information:
- [FCC]
[FCCdata]
- [Radio-Locator]
- [Wikipedia]
- [Facebook]
Silent
- History:
- This station dates back
to November of 1962, when it came on the air with 1 kW with a country
music format, with the WAGC calls. In more recent times
the station had a southern gospel format in the early 2000's.
The calls changed to WZTQ in August 2003, and it most likely started
carrying the religious "Joy Christian Radio" network at that time
through an LMA with the Radio Centre owners. Radio Centre
passed the license on to Joy Christian Communications in November
2003. Joy swapped the calls of this station with their
affiliate in Jasper, and this station became WLYJ in September
2007. The station filed to operate as a non-commercial
broadcaster in January of 2011. The calls flipped back to WZTQ
in February 2012 when Joy sold the WLYJ calls to American Family
Radio for use on their station in Tullahoma, Tennessee. It was
announced in October 2012 that Joy was donating the station to
ZYPRadio, who operated a progressive talk station in Atlanta.
ZYPRadio took over operation and switched the format to
oldies. The donation fell through, so ownership and operation
again reverted to Joy Christian Communications. They changed
the calls back to WLYJ again in
May, 2013. In keeping with Joy's habit of playing musical
chairs with call signs, the calls again
changed to WZTQ
in October of 2014. (The WLYJ calls are on Joy's FM station in
their home town of Tullahoma as of March 2012.) The station went
silent at some point in recent times, 2012 or 2013, although not
silent STA was ever filed with the FCC. In keeping with Joy's
poor operating practices, most of their stations are off air and not
reported to the FCC, while their network and local station websites
are active but "under construction" with no content. It's
unknown if this station is active again or, but as of March 2016 their
Facebook page is active with regular posts of recipes, of all things.
- After remaining silent
for too long, the FCC deleted the license for this station in early
July, 2016.