WRZX (FM)

WRZX

City	Greenville, Ohio
Broadcast area	Dayton, Ohio
Branding	Big 106.5
Slogan	Dayton's '70s & '80s Hits Dayton's Christmas Station (Nov.-Dec.)
Frequency	106.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	April 15, 1962 (as WDRK)
Format	Classic Hits Christmas music (Nov.-Dec.)
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	146 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	67615
Former callsigns	WDRK (1964–1989) WLSN (1990–1997) WBKI (1998–2003) WDJO (2003–2005) WDSJ (2005–2014) WOLT (5/2014-6/2014)
Affiliations	Premium Choice iHeartRadio
Owner	Aloha Station Trust
Sister stations	WCHD, WYDB, WMMX, WONE, WTUE, WZDA
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	Big 106.5

WRZX (106.5 FM, "Big 106.5") is a radio station licensed to Greenville, Ohio serving most of the Dayton metropolitan area with a rimshot signal. The station is owned by the Aloha Station Trust. Its studios are located in Kettering, Ohio (with a Dayton address) and its transmitter is in Greenville.

WRZX is licensed by the FCC to broadcast in the hybrid digital HD format.^[1]^[2]

Early history

The station's history dates back to 1962 as WDRK "The Brightest Spark In Darke (County)" known for its upper-case "W-spark" logo (possibly inspired by a similar logo used by the former WIFE in Indianapolis) when its studios were located in Greenville, Ohio (its city of license) and was operated by Lewell Broadcasting.

The station switched from traditional middle of the road to adult contemporary in 1972 when it aired the automated "Hitparade" package produced by Drake-Chenault Enterprises throughout a good part of the 1970s. The adult contemporary format however was tweaked by switching to locally produced automation tapes before the end of the decade. It later switched to a satellite country music format in the 1980s and later an oldies format in the late-1980s.

During this time WDRK was cited by the FCC in the late 1970s for leaving the transmitter unattended overnight and making false entries on its logs claiming otherwise. The station's owners fought a long battle with the FCC to keep it on the air until around 1989 when WDRK went silent and never returned to the air.

Smooth jazz and easy listening WLSN

A newer station in its place emerged in 1990 as WLSN, owned by Treaty City Broadcasting airing beautiful music mixed with smooth jazz with a taller and more powerful transmitter installed north of Greenville replacing the less powerful WDRK tower on the south edge of town. Around this same time the former WHIO-FM switched from a similar format to country as WHKO "K-99.1 FM."

Buckeye Country and Jammin' Oldies

In 1997 WLSN was sold to Jacor Communications, later becoming WBKI ("Buckeye Country 106.5") in 1998 competing with WHKO until the merger with Clear Channel becoming WDJO (a call sign used previously at 1230 AM in Cincinnati) as "Dayton's Jammin' Oldies 106.5." But eventually, the late 1960s and '70s rhythmic oldies format failed to attract sizeable listeners. The WDJO calls themselves have since moved back to a station licensed to Cincinnati at 1480 AM, as a 1950s' and '60s' oldies station.

Smooth jazz returns

When a group of listeners of the former WLSN joined together and complained about the lack of smooth jazz in the Dayton market, it was recommended that it would go back to what it was a decade earlier. Thus it became WDSJ which enjoyed a considerably large following in the Dayton market, eastern Indiana and the northern suburbs of Cincinnati since its switch to smooth jazz.

WDSJ aired programming from Broadcast Architecture's "Smooth Jazz Network."

Back to country music

On Friday May 1, 2009 the smooth jazz format ended at 5pm Eastern time according to the WDSJ website.

It became "106.5 The Bull" with a country music format and a new website which went online on the morning of May 2, 2009.

Change to classic hits

On March 25, 2010, WDSJ changed their format to classic hits, branded as "Big 106.5". They are using Premium Choice with voicetracked DJs.

On May 26, 2014, 106.5 changed callsigns from WDSJ to WOLT.^[3]

On June 20, 2014 106.5 changed callsigns from WOLT to WRZX. The WOLT callsign is now assigned to the former WRZX 103.3 FM in Indianapolis.

References

External links

BIG 106.5

Query the FCC's FM station database for WRZX

Radio-Locator information on WRZX

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WRZX

Radio stations in the Dayton, Ohio market

By AM frequency	910 980 1110 1130 1210 1290 1340 1410 1500 1570 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.5 89.9 90.3 91.3 92.1 92.9 93.7 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.3 98.7 98.7 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.1 101.5 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.5 103.9 104.7 105.9 106.5 106.7 106.9 107.1 107.3 107.7

By callsign	W254BA W254BJ W266BG W273BQ W277AO WALH-LP WBZI WCHD WCLI-FM WCSU-FM WCWT-FM WDAO WDHT WDPG WDPR WDPS WEDI WEEC WFCJ WFTK WGNZ WGRR WGTZ WHIO WHIO-FM WHKO WING WIZE WKCD WKET WMMX WNKN WONE WPFB WPTW WQRP WREW WROU-FM WRZX WSWO-LP WTJN-LP WTUE WUDR WULM WUSO WWSU WYDA WYDB WYNS WYSO WZDA WZLR

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in Ohio

Classic hits radio stations in Ohio

By frequency	970 1490 1510 1520 92.1 92.1 93.5 94.3 96.1 97.1 99.7 100.1 101.3 101.7 102.5 103.5 103.5 104.3 105.7 106.3 106.5 106.7 107.1 107.3

By callsign	WAGX WALH-LP WATH WBVB WCDK WDOH WGRR WKKI WKSD WLKR WMJI WMTR-FM WNKO WNND WNNP WOHF WOHI WQCT WRQN WRZX WSWR WYBZ WYVK WZOO-FM

By city	Archbold Athens Ashtabula Bellvue/Sandusky Bowling Green/Toledo Bryan Cadiz Celina Cincinnati Cleveland Coal Grove Crooksville Delphos East Liverpool Greenville Manchester Middleport New Albany Norwalk/Sandusky Paulding Pickerington Richwood Shelby/Ashland/Mansfield Wilmington

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Ohio See also Oldies Classic Hits

Coordinates: 40°08′49″N 84°36′36″W / 40.147°N 84.610°W / 40.147; -84.610

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