WZCC is a commercial

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, broadcasting to the Tri-County area of

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, and Gilchrist counties on 1240 AM. In 2007 the station was sold to WRGO RADIO, LLC. In February 2010 the station was sold to Suncoast Radio, Inc. The station was off the air for most of 2009. WZCC resumed broadcasting on March 5, 2010. In addition to classic country music WZCC airs

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Series races from the

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, and local high school football. On December 1, 2010, WZCC began simulcasting with WLQH AM 940 in

Chiefland Chiefland is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 2,316 at the 2020 census. Chiefland calls itself the "Gem of the Suwannee Valley" and was incorporated in 1929. History A village of the Timucua people was once locat ...

. In August 2013 WZCC began broadcasting on an FM translator W227AV 93.3 MHz in

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; though licensed to Newberry in western

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, the translator did not serve that community, covering instead an area between Chiefland and

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from a transmitter along U.S. 19/ 98 north of Chiefland.

References

*1992 Broadcasting Yearbook, page A-69

External links

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