WPLL (106.9

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) is a commercial FM

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licensed to

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, and broadcasting to the Gainesville area. The station is owned by MARC Radio Gainesville and airs a

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. WPLL uses the slogan "I Am Country 106.9." The studios and offices are on NW 76th Drive in Gainesville. The

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is on SW 25th Avenue in Trenton.

History

106.3 WDFL-FM

On November 16, 1987, the station

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as WDFL-FM,

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ing the country format of

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WDFL (now

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). It broadcast from the WDFL tower in Cross City, owned by Women in Florida Broadcasting, Inc. WDFL-FM was a Class A FM station with 3,000 watts of power carrying a satellite-fed

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format on 106.3 MHz.

Move to 106.9

In 1998, Women in Florida Broadcasting received approval from the

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to upgrade the signal to a C1, with 4,500 watts, and move it to its current transmitter site, about two miles west of Trenton, Florida. The signal upgrade required WDFL-FM to change its frequency to 106.9 MHz to avoid conflicts with WGUL-FM 106.3 in

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(now WGHR in Spring Hill, Florida). In 2000, WDFL-FM became WKZY ("Cozy") and its format changed to Adult Standards, fed via satellite from Westwood One's

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Network (then known as "AM Only").

Sale to Pamal Broadcasting

WKZY was sold to

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in late 2000, and in April 2001 launched a Soft Adult Contemporary format as "Lite Rock, 106.9 KZY." This format never did well, mostly because it was going up against heritage AC station 98.5 WKTK which has a better signal over the Gainesville-Ocala market. Pamal moved the studios from a single wide mobile home at the Trenton transmitter site to the studios of WLUS (now WDVH) on the east side of Gainesville. From that location, the station consistently had trouble delivering a reliable program feed to the transmitter site. In 2003, Pamal changed format to Adult Hits as "106.9 KZY." In October 2005, WKZY along with Pamal's other Gainesville stations moved to a new studio facility in the Sunshine Broadcasting Building, located at 100 NW 76 Drive, in the Tower Hill Office Park. In order to comply with FCC 73.1225(a) (main studio rule), the station maintained its main studio at the Trenton transmitter site. In 2007, the station was sold to Johnson Licenses, Inc. In December 2007, 106.9 KZY transitioned to

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and later to an Adult Top 40 sound with a rhythmic lean. In 2009, the station changed its format from Adult Top 40 back to a Hot AC. WKZY also changed its slogan from "More Hit Music... Better Mix" to "The Best Mix of the 80's, 90's and today." The station also aired ''

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'' syndicated from

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Contemporary Christian

On September 20, 2012, WKZY announced a switch to

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as 106.9 The Pulse. The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show was discontinued. On November 8, 2012, the station changed its

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to the current WPLL. On August 9, 2017, WPLL announced it would end its Contemporary Christian format. The last day of operations was Sunday, August 12.

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101.7 picked up the Christian Contemporary format as "The Joy FM," fed by

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in the

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area. On August 14, 2017, WPLL switched to a

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format previously heard on WDVH-FM.MARC Radio BeginsGainesville Shuffle
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References

External links

* {{Country Radio Stations in Florida

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