WKRZ

WKRZ / WKRF

City	WKRZ: Freeland, PA WKRF: Tobyhanna, PA
Broadcast area	WKRZ: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton WKRF: Stroudsburg
Branding	98.5 KRZ
Slogan	Today's Best Music
Frequency	WKRZ: 98.5 MHz (FM) (also on HD Radio) 98.5 HD-1 (WKRZ) 98.5 HD-2 (All Comedy Radio) WKRF: 107.9 MHz (FM)
First air date	WKRZ: 1948 (as WBRE-FM) WKRF: 1989 (as WPMR)
Format	Top 40 Mainstream
Language(s)	English
ERP	WKRZ: 8,700 watts WKRF: 830 watts
HAAT	WKRZ: 357 meters WKRF: 267 meters
Class	WKRZ: B WKRF: A
Facility ID	WKRZ: 34379 WKRF: 14643
Callsign meaning	WKRZ: W KRaZy WKRF: W KRazy F
Former callsigns	WKRZ: WBRE-FM (1948-1980) WKRF: WPMR (1989-1992) WPMR-FM (1992-1995)
Owner	Entercom Communications (Entercom Wilkes-Barre Scranton, LLC)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wkrz.com

WKRZ, "98.5 KRZ", is a radio station licensed to Freeland, Pennsylvania serving the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton radio market at 98.5 MHz FM. The station radio format is Top 40 which it has broadcast in the market since 1980. For three decades, the station has used "KRZ", a shortened form of its call letters, for its on air promotion. The present owners of WKRZ, Entercom Communications, received FCC approval in 2003 to move WAMT (103.1 MHz FM, now WILK-FM) from Freeland to Avoca. As a condition of the move, Entercom was required to change the city of license of WKRZ from Wilkes-Barre to Freeland due to FCC concerns about the "loss of local service" to Freeland because of the WAMT move. In practice, the only thing that changed was the legal ID.^[1]

WKRZ is broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity.^[2] The main program is simulcast on 98.5 HD-1 in digital.^[2] Comedy programming can be heard on 98.5 HD-2 on the secondary digital multicasting stream.^[2]

WKRZ also airs On Air With Ryan Seacrest on weekdays.

History

The radio station now known as WKRZ, first signed on the air in 1948^[3] as WBRE-FM from Wilkes-Barre. It was the FM sister station to then WBRE AM at 1340 kHz^[4] also located in Wilkes-Barre. WBRE-FM evolved through a number of radio formats ending up with an all News format during the 1970s.^[5] The station, up to that point, broadcast in FM mono since its start in 1948. Due to consistently low audience ratings in the area,^[6] WBRE-FM made a big change in 1980 when it was sold with the new owners switching to FM stereo, a dramatic format switch to Top 40 music, along with the call sign change to the present WKRZ. WKRZ-FM has been broadcasting a Top 40 music format since 1980. It debuted as 98½ KRZ-FM. It went by 98½ to differentiate itself from WILK 980 which was Top 40 at the time and called itself AM98. It was originally supposed to be called Krazy 98 as its sister station was WAQY Wacky 102 Springfield Mass.

WKRF simulcast

WPMR-FM was off the air but began a simulcast of WKRZ in 1995.^[7] Its letters changed to WKRF on May 15.^[8]

WKRF's city of license is Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, and can be heard in the Stroudsburg, PA area and throughout extreme eastern sections of Pennsylvania and some sections of extreme northwestern New Jersey. These are areas where the signal from WKRZ 98.5 MHz cannot reach.

References

↑ NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush
1 2 3 HD Digital Radio | DISCOVER IT! | HD Digital Radio
↑ U. S. FM Stations as of 1948
↑ U. S. AM stations as of 1946
↑ Northeastern Pennsylvania Radio Answers
↑ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WB&s_site=timesleader&p_multi=WB&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB71AE85C56FAB0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM (Originally Published on April 8, 2001, Page 1B, The Times Leader, Wilkes Barre, PA)
↑ Stark, Phyllis (April 29, 1995). "Vox Jox". Billboard. 107 (17): 92.
↑ "Call Sign History (WKRF)". Retrieved October 8, 2015.

External links

WKRZ Official Website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WKRZ

Radio-Locator information on WKRZ

Query the FCC's FM station database for WKRF

Radio-Locator information on WKRF

Radio stations in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre market

By AM frequency	590 630 730 750 800 910 980 1240 1280 1300 1340 1400 1440 1460 1490 1550 1590 1640

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.5 88.9 89.9 90.3 90.7 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.9 93.5 93.7 94.3 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.1 96.5 97.1 97.9 98.5 99.5 100.1 100.3 100.5 101.3 102.3 102.7 103.1 104.3 104.5 104.9 105.7 105.9 106.1 106.9 107.3 107.7 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	W205AG W235AA W262AI W282BK W291AP WARM WAZL WBAX WBHT WBHD WBSX WBWX WBZU WCDL WCIG WCIN WCLH WEJL WEJL-FM WEZX WPZX WFTE WFUZ WGGY WGMF WICK WILK WILK-FM WITK WKRF WKRZ WKZN WLKA WMGS WMQX WPEL WPEL-FM WPNX700 WPSN WQOR WRGN WRKC WSBG WSJR WTRW WUSR WVIA-FM WVMW-FM WWRR WXL43 WYCK WZZH WZMF

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

Radio stations in the Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton, Pennsylvania market

By AM frequency	790 1100 1160 1230 1320 1400 1470 1600 1640

By FM frequency	88.1 89.3 89.5 90.3 91.3 91.7 92.7 93.1 93.7 93.9 94.7 95.1 96.1 96.9 97.1 99.3 99.5 99.9 100.7 102.5 103.5 104.1 104.9 (Easton) 104.9 (North Whitehall Township) 105.7 107.1 107.5

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4

By callsign	W224AU W226AA W229AO W230AG W234AX W245AC W246AA W257AI W258BM W278AI W285DH W289AH WAEB WAEB-FM WBYN WBYN-FM WCTO WDIY WEEX WEST WGPA WHOL WJCS WJRH WLEV WLHI WLVR-FM WMUH WODE-FM WPNX700 WRFY-FM WSAN WTKZ WWPJ WWYY WXL39 WZZO

New York radio markets Albany–Schenectady–Troy Binghamton Buffalo–Niagara Falls Elmira–Corning Hudson Valley Nassau–Suffolk (Long Island) New York City Olean Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Rochester Syracuse Utica–Rome Watertown Other New York radio regions Ithaca Jamestown–Dunkirk North Country Saratoga Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

Radio stations in and around Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

By FM frequency	88.7 89.5 90.3 91.1 91.9 93.5 104.9 106.3 107.1 107.9

By AM frequency	840

By callsign	WBYX WCSD-LP WESS WHCY WKRF WRTY WSBG WVPO WWPJ WWYY WXPJ

Defunct stations	WPLY 960

Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

Entercom

AM radio stations	KCSP KEZW KFH KFXX KIFM KJCE KMBZ KMTT KNSS KWOD KYYS WAXY WBEN WBT WBZU WEAL WEEI WGR WILK WKZN WMC WMFS WORD WPET WQXI WRKO WROC WSSP WVEI WWKB WWL WWWL WWWS WXNT WYRD

FM radio stations	K242CC KALC KAMX KBLX-FM KBZT KDGS KDND KEYN-FM KFBZ KGMZ KGON KHTP KISW KKDO KKMJ-FM KKWF KMBZ-FM KNDD KNRK KNSS-FM KOIT KQKS KQMT KQRC-FM KRBQ KRBZ KRSK KRXQ KSEG KSON KSOQ-FM KSWD KUDL KUFX KWJJ-FM KXSN KYCH-FM KZPT WAAF WBEE-FM WBT-FM WBZA WCMF-FM WDAF-FM WEEI-FM WEZB WFBC-FM WGGI WGGY WILK-FM WJMH WKAF WKBU WKRF WKRZ WKSE WKTK WLFP WLKK WLMG WLNK WLYF WMC-FM WMFS-FM WMHX WMMM-FM WMQX WMXJ WMYX-FM WNTR WNVZ WOLX-FM WPAW WPTE WPXY-FM WQMG WROQ WRVR WSFS WSKY-FM WSMW WSPA-FM WSTR WTPT WTSS WVEI-FM WVKL WWDE-FM WWEI WWL-FM WXSS WYRD-FM WZPL

CHR / Top 40 radio stations in the state of Pennsylvania

By frequency	92.1 92.1 92.7 93.1 93.9 94.1 94.5 95.3 95.7 95.9 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.1 97.3 97.7 98.5 99.3 99.7 100.1 102.1 103.7 104.1 107.9

By callsign	WAEB-FM WAKZ WBHD WBHT WBHV-FM WDNH-FM WEHP WHKF WIOQ WJHT WKBI-FM WKRF WKRZ WKST-FM WLAN-FM WNUZ WQKX WQYX WRTS WVRT WVRZ WWOT WZMP WZZE

By city	Allentown Altoona Clearfield Erie Glen Mills Harrisburg Honesdale Johnstown Lancaster Lawrence Park Mercersburg Mount Carmel Olyphant Philadelphia (WIOQ) Philadelphia (WZMP) Pittsburgh Saint Marys Scranton Scranton Sharpsville State College Sunbury Tobyhanna Williamsport

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania See also Contemporary Hit Radio Rhythmic KISS-FM MOVin Radio Disney

Coordinates: 41°11′56″N 75°49′05″W / 41.199°N 75.818°W / 41.199; -75.818

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WKRZ

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WKRF simulcast

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