WZJZ (100.1 FM) is a commercial

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, and broadcasting to the

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–

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. WZJZ is owned by

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and airs a hybrid

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and

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branded as "Magic 100.1". The station's studios and offices are on Metro Parkway in Fort Myers, and its

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is off Horseshoe Road in Punta Gorda.

History

Disco and smooth jazz

In 1976, the station first

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at 100.1 MHz in Port Charlotte. It had the

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WEEJ with an effective radiated power of 3,000

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s. It began with an all

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format. Through most of the 1980s it had an

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format until switching formats various times through the 1990s. In 2003, it took the callsign WCKT as "Cat Country 100." On March 21, 2007, when it was a

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station, WZJZ moved from 107.1 FM to 100.1 FM, swapping frequencies with co-owned

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station

WCKT WCKT (107.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Lehigh Acres, Florida, and serving the Fort Myers-Naples area of Southwest Florida. It airs a country music format branded as "Cat Country" and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. In mornin ...

. WCKT is now heard at 107.1, while WZJZ continues at 100.1. This gave WZJZ sizable signal improvements to the north of Fort Myers, going from Class A to Class C, while also reducing signal redundancy for the country format, as Clear Channel also owns another country station, 92.9 WIKX, in the Port Charlotte area.

Z100

On March 29, 2009, at midnight, WZJZ began to repeatedly play the same portion of the song "

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as a

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in preparation for a format change. The new station was slated to be called Move 100.1. On March 30, 2009, WZJZ flipped to an upbeat

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format and adopted the "Z100" moniker. Its logo was patterned after its

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, and

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Y100

On July 25, 2011, after a weekend of stunting, WZJZ flipped to

/ CHR, using the moniker ''Y100'', even though there is no "Y" in the call letters. The station's format and logo were patterned after its sister station in nearby

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, WHYI, but customized for Southwest Floridians. The flip to Top 40 gave iHeartMedia two Top 40 stations in the Fort Myers market, along with

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WBTT. In 2013, WZJZ once again switched its logo to match WHYI, but with some slight differences. On March 24, 2016, at midnight, WZJZ tweaked its format to Hot AC and rebranded as "Y100.1".

Magic 100.1

On January 12, 2024 at 5 a.m., after playing "

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" by

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, WZJZ shifted to a hybrid format consisting of both Spanish and English-language adult contemporary music (with the imaging of the station done entirely in Spanish), branded as "Magic 100.1" (the first song under the format being "

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" by

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), mirroring a similar move at iHeart-owned

WMIA-FM WMIA-FM (93.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Miami Beach, Florida. Owned and operated by iHeartMedia, the station carries a Spanish-language format featuring a mixture of Latin pop and English-language adult contemporary hits. Its studios ...

across the state in

; the move is an attempt to mimic the success WMIA had following its own launch the previous November.iHeart's New Magic Makes Its Way to Fort Myers
Radioinsight - January 12, 2024

Previous logos

(WZJZ's logo under previous CHR format) WZJZ Y100

References

External links

Official Website
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