WCPZ

WCPZ

City	Sandusky, Ohio
Broadcast area	Sandusky-Port Clinton, Ohio Lake Erie Islands
Branding	Mix 102.7
Frequency	102.7 MHz
First air date	August 15, 1959
Format	Hot adult contemporary
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	41 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	19706
Transmitter coordinates	41°26′28.00″N 82°41′14.00″W / 41.4411111°N 82.6872222°W / 41.4411111; -82.6872222
Callsign meaning	Cedar Point Zone
Former callsigns	WLEC-FM (1959–80) WCPZ (1980–98) WMTX (1998) WMJK (1998–99) WCPZ (1999–present)
Owner	BAS Broadcasting, Inc. (BAS Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations	WFRO-FM, WLEC, WMJK, WOHF, WTTF
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	mix1027.com

WCPZ (102.7 FM) – branded Mix 102.7 FM – is a commercial hot adult contemporary radio station licensed to Sandusky, Ohio, serving Sandusky, Port Clinton, and the Lake Erie Islands region in north central Ohio. WCPZ is owned by BAS Broadcasting, and in addition to a standard analog transmission, the station is available online.

History

The station began as WLEC-FM on August 15, 1959 and was the FM sister to AM station WLEC.^[1] It became WCPZ on May 19, 1980, dubbed "Leisure 103" with a soft adult contemporary format. WCPZ eventually migrated to a hot adult contemporary format (as "Leisure Rock 103" and later "The Fun Point") during the 1980s, and had kept the format ever since.

Following the sale of the station to Jacor Communications in September 1996, WCPZ eventually took the "Mix" banner used by Jacor's other Hot AC stations in the region, notably the now-defunct WVMX in Cincinnati and WMVX in Cleveland.

As a result, the call letters changed to WMTX on April 24, 1998, with the WCPZ calls moving to the 100.9 facility in Clyde (today WMJK).

The station regained the WCPZ calls on September 9, 1999, but kept use of the "Mix" banner on all other times. WMJK-FM, licensed to Clyde, Ohio as classic rocker "100.9 The Coast" (now country station "100.9 Coast Country") along with WLEC-AM and WCPZ-FM, made up Clear Channel's Vacationland cluster, having succeeded Jacor in 1999.

On November 16, 2006, WCPZ, WLEC and WMJK were announced for sale as part of Clear Channel's divestiture of almost 450 small and middle-market radio properties in the U.S.

The cluster was sold on January 15, 2008 to Fremont-based BAS Broadcasting, and BAS took over all three stations on February 1.

WCPZ was expected to drop the "Mix" name following the sale, as the "Mix" moniker is used on many Clear Channel stations; however, it did not. BAS Broadcasting did, however, replace most local programming with the "AC Active" format from Waitt Radio Networks (now Dial Global Local).

The morning show – hosted by longtime local radio personality Randy Hugg – remains live and local.^[2]

References

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WCPZ

Radio-Locator information on WCPZ

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WCPZ

Radio stations in the Sandusky-Port Clinton, Ohio/Lake Erie Islands region

By AM frequency	1430 1450 1510 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.1 89.5 90.5 90.7 90.9 92.1 93.3 95.3 96.1 97.7 99.1 100.9 102.7

By callsign	W227BJ WCPZ WFOB WFRO-FM WGGN WHEI WHRQ WHVT WKFM WLEC WLKR WLKR-FM WMJK WNRK WNZN WOHF WSHB WTTF WVMS

Defunct stations	WFRO

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 Southwestern Ontario Radio List of radio stations in Ohio

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