(It’s now licensed to Baltimore, Ohio, as class B1 WWCD, leased out to another broadcaster as modern rock “CD102.5.”) WHIZ-FM WZVL 103.7 Downstairs: rack full of blades

It’s the former religious WCVZ, which picked up the WHIZ-FM calls and top-40 format in 2009 when WHIZ moved the big class B 102.5 signal closer to Columbus. The current version of WHIZ-FM (“Z92”) is on 92.7 licensed to South Zanesville. Two FMs now flank the AM in the row of studios along the south side of the building. (That’s morning host Brenda Larrick doing an interview in the AM studio, as seen from the FM side.) AM studio AM studio Southeast Ohio Broadcasting has kept all these signals in family hands, and WHIZ(AM) in particular continues to be one of those rare full-service AM stations that just keeps chugging along in 2018 with local news, talk and music, live and local into middays and afternoons. Most of those AM/FM/TV combos that came together in the 1950s and 1960s split up a few decades later, but not WHIZ. WHIZ-FM came along in 1962 on 102.5, and we’ll see what happened there in a moment. The lobby here shows off the next few decades of WHIZ history: in 1953, WHIZ-TV hit the air on channel 50, powering up a year later down the dial on channel 18. There are three buildings up here on the hill now, and we start at the 1980-vintage brick building that’s home to the WHIZ offices and radio studios. In 1951, WHIZ moved its transmitter to Downard Road, up in the hills southeast of downtown, and it’s up here at Downard Road where we pull up on a humid June morning, accompanied by Mike (and by 10-year-old Eli, who wants to see what WHIZ looks like, too!) Welcome to WHIZ! WHIZ lobby WHIZ started out in the AM radio days as WEBE, another hour to the east over in Cambridge it became WALR (for owner Roy Waller) when it moved to Zanesville in 1930, and in 1939 it took the WHIZ calls, moving from 1210 up to 1240 two years later. That small city an hour east of Columbus is known (at least among road geeks) for the unique “Y bridge” that carries US 40 across the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers into downtown Zanesville (complete with an intersection in the middle of the bridge where another street joins it!) – and it’s known, at least to us, for still having a family-owned radio/TV combo in town. Zanesville’s Y-Bridge, from above Radio/administration buildingįor the last couple of years, he’s been telling me about one place in particular: WHIZ radio and TV in Zanesville, Ohio. That means he’s visited a lot of broadcast facilities – and it means that when he tells me there’s a station I really need to go see myself, he knows what he’s talking about. My friend Mike has a neat job, traveling the country (and at the moment, the world) helping radio stations make their audio processing as good as it can possibly be.

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