WJZI (1540
AM) was a daytime-only
radio station
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which broadcast a
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
format. Licensed to
Decatur, Indiana
Decatur is a city in Root Township, Adams County, Indiana, Root and Washington Township, Adams County, Indiana, Washington townships, Adams County, Indiana, Adams County, Indiana, United States. It is the county seat (and the largest community ...
, United States, the station was last owned by Lewis Broadcasting, LLC.
In December 2011, WADM dropped its
classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...
format in favor of
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
as WJZI ("Jazz in Indiana"). The new station played traditional jazz, as opposed to "
smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a genre of commercially-oriented crossover jazz and easy listening music that became dominant in the mid 1970s to the early 1990s.
History
Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 19 ...
". WJZI was the only full-time commercial jazz radio station in Indiana.
Lewis Broadcasting surrendered WJZI's license to the
Federal Communications Commission
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on May 14, 2021, and it was cancelled on May 17.
See also
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List of jazz radio stations in the United States
This is a list of terrestrial, satellite and internet radio stations which identify themselves as playing jazz in any of its forms (mainstream, traditional, fusion, acid, and smooth, among others), or have substantial jazz programming, that can be ...
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWJZI(Facility ID: 71465)
FCC History Cards for WJZI(covering 1960-1979 as WADM )
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Radio stations established in 1962
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Radio stations disestablished in 2021
Defunct radio stations in the United States
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1962 establishments in Indiana
2021 disestablishments in Indiana
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