WDIZ (1320
AM) is a
commercial radio station broadcasting an
oldies format.
Licensed to
Venice, Florida, United States, the station serves the
Sarasota metropolitan area. WDIZ is owned by
iHeartMedia, Inc. and calls itself "Oldies 1320", ''Venice's Real Oldies''. The station uses iHeartMedia's ''Real Oldies'' network that mainly focuses on hits from the 1960s and 1970s.
History
The station
signed on as WAMR on February 1, 1960. It was owned by Venice Nokomis Broadcasting, Inc. and was a
daytimer station, with a power of 500
watts, and required to
sign off at sunset to avoid interfering with other stations on
AM 1320
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. It aired a
middle of the road (MOR) music format.
In the 1980s, the daytime power was increased to 5,000 watts and the station was given nighttime authorization with 1,000 watts. In 1988, the station was acquired by Asterisk Radio, Inc., which kept the MOR format in the daytime but added talk programming from
NBC Talknet at night. In the 1990s, the music was decreased and talk programming took over the daily schedule.
In 1999, Citicasters acquired the station. Citicasters later merged into
Clear Channel Communications
iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company fou ...
, which today is iHeartMedia, Inc. After top-rated 103.5
WDUV Bradenton, an
easy listening station, switched to a
soft adult contemporary format and moved to a transmitter north of Tampa, Clear Channel decided to go after its displaced listeners in the Sarasota area. WAMR became WDDV, a
call sign similar to the departed FM station. WDDV's format changed to
adult standards.
On March 17, 2016, WDDV flipped from adult standards to talk and business news. On weekdays, WDDV
simulcasted the morning
drive time show, "AM
Tampa Bay", from
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
AM 970 WFLA Tampa
Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County ...
. The rest of the schedule consisted of
syndicated
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* Broadcast syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside the network system
* Print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips
* Web syndication, ...
talk shows and business news from
Bloomberg Radio. Some hours were paid
brokered programming.
On May 5, 2020, iHeartMedia flipped WDDV from
news/talk to
oldies, branded as "Oldies 1320", using iHeartMedia's Real Oldies network.
The call sign was changed to WDIZ on June 29, 2020.
Former logo
References
External links
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Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1960
1960 establishments in Florida
IHeartMedia radio stations
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