WDYZ (660

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) is a

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, and serving

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. The station is owned by JVC Media and airs a

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. The studios and offices are in

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. WDYZ's

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is off Charles Street in Longwood. The station uses a three-

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. It transmits with 3,500

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s by day, but because

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is a clear channel frequency reserved for

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, WDYZ must reduce power to 1,000 watts at night. The station uses a

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at all times. Programming is also heard on a 250-watt

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, W288CJ on 105.5

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History

The station first

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the air in 1986 as WGOR. Originally it broadcast on 650 kHz and was licensed to

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. WGOR was a 10,000-watt

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. It carried a

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format. In the 1990s, the station was acquired by Floyco, Inc. It changed its

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to WORL to represent Orlando. It moved one spot up the dial to AM 660 and changed its

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to Altamonte Springs. The move was designed to allow the station to broadcast around the clock, which was not possible when it was on AM 650, due to its proximity to WSM

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, the 50,000-watt clear channel station on 650 kHz. In 2001, WORL was acquired by James Crystal, Inc., which also owned stations in the

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and

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s. Crystal programmed a mix of talk, business news and religion. But the company ran into financial problems several years later. In 2006,

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acquired the station, to air its own lineup of

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programming. In July 2019, it was announced that

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, owners of country station WOTW, would acquire WORL and its FM translator for $900,000. Salem moved the conservative talk format to WTLN (950 AM) on August 19, 2019, and the station began stunting by redirecting listeners to 950 AM on a loop. As Salem retained rights to the WORL calls, the WDYZ calls from

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were swapped to 660 AM. JVC announced that it planned to launch a new

format on the station, ''Florida Man Radio'', which officially launched on September 9, featuring hosts like ''

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'', Scott Ledger, and ''

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'' (which had been displaced by WYAY in

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after its sale and conversion to K-Love). In November 2019, JVC announced plans to syndicate the ''Florida Man Radio'' programming state-wide, adding Gainesville sister station

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to the network beginning November 11, 2019. The station also announced that

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would join the network as midday host.

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