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Does anyone remember WZIP?

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deff junction

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It was on 1590 in South Daytona. A friend ,Frank Canale was one of the owners. They had an oldies format and did okay despite being a 1KW AM daytimer at 1590. I even did a few shifts for him. It was quite an interesting little station.
 
WZIP at 1050 on the AM dial was originally licenesed to Covington, Kentucky in 1947. The station eventually moved across the river to Cincinnati and lasted with those call-letters until 1981 although the tower remained in Northern Kentucky. There was also a WZIP-FM at 92.5 from 1964 until 1971.
 
WZIP was originally WDAT before becoming WELE in the 70s, and it was co-owned with WELE-FM 105.9 Deland. Both stations were country at the time. When Sidney Frazier and Sheldon Katz sold WELE-AM 1590 seperately from the FM, that is when the call letters became WZIP, however, the format remained country for while before flipping to oldies. WZIP was a Mutual Broadcasting System network affiliate for Daytona Beach. The station was, and still is licensed to South Daytona, although, at one time, previous owner Frank Conale wanted to change the city of license to Port Orange. WZIP had a construction permit to increase its daytime power to 5,000 watts non directional, however, that CP expired sometime in 1983 or perhaps 1984 and WZIP never powered up past its current authorized 1,000 watt daytime authorization. I was working for Q 102 back in the early 80s when WZIP was on the air, and I came very close to buying the station from Frank Conale sometime in 1983.

Mark Tillery
WOCA-AM 1370 WRLQ-FM 95.9
Ocala, Florida
 
Just after Frazier and Katz bought it, they MOVED it to sugar sand where the station is now and has been from the mid 70's.
It WAS on U.S. 1 and GROUNDED IN THE HALIFAX RIVER.....WOW, what a signal then, incredible. As to why they moved it, I believe it was a money issue. Such a shame for such a great signal.

Go visit cflradio.net and learn all about 1590 and others. A friend of mine runs it and does a great job.

Good Info you provided JMT
 
If you like that info, you may want to check out the info I've provided to Bob on cflradio.net under the name "Marc Tyll". I've added all the Ocala, Gainesville, Palatka and Citrus County stations. I did make a few contributions relating to the Daytona Beach stations from what I can remember from when I worked that market in the 80s. That was soooo long ago. I must be getting old.

Mark Tillery
Ocala, Florida
 
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