WAYZ is a
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
formatted
broadcast radio station
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licensed to
Hagerstown, Maryland, serving the Four-State Area. In Pennsylvania, WAYZ can be heard clearly in parts of southwestern York county, and in all of Adams, Franklin, and Fulton Counties. WAYZ can be heard as far east as western Baltimore, and as far south as NW suburbs of Washington, DC. WAYZ is owned and operated by VerStandig Broadcasting.
FM 104.7 came on the air in 1946 as WJEJ-FM (sister to WJEJ 1240). Until 2000 the station was known as easy listening/beautiful music formatted WWMD under Hagerstown Broadcasting; it was then traded to Verstandig for
101.5 FM and $2.5 million.
References
External links
104.7 WAYZ Online*
AYZ
Radio stations established in 1946
1946 establishments in Maryland
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