Name | KDKA-FM |
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City | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Area | Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
Branding | SportsRadio 93.7 The Fan |
Slogan | All Sports. All The Time. |
Airdate | |
Frequency | 93.7 HD-1: Sports talk 93.7 HD-2: Currently Dark 93.7 HD-3: KDKA simulcast |
Format | Sports radio |
Erp | 41,000 watts |
Haat | 167 meters |
Class | B |
Facility id | 20350 |
Callsign meaning | taken from sister station KDKA |
Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio |
Owner | CBS Radio |
Sister stations | KDKA, KDKA-TV, WBZZ, WDSY-FM, WPCW |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website |
During its early incarnations as WKJF, WKOI, and WJOI, the station programmed a beautiful music format.
B94 featured local morning shows such as “Quinn and Banana" (featuring Jim Quinn and "Banana" Don Jefferson) in the 1980s and “John, Dave, Bubba and Shelly” (with some minor morning personality changes) in the 1990s through 2004.
In 2000, Clear Channel Communications unveiled a new CHR format, KISS-FM, on WKST-FM. The new station began to take a large chunk out of B94's audience. With more syndicated programming featuring famous national on air talent and focusing more on the younger audience, B94 for the first time, saw itself slipping into second place. Also not helping matters was sister station WZPT switching to a Hot AC format at the same time, which, while it played a mix of 80's and 90's music with current hits, otherwise had a similar format to B94.
Early in 2003, WBZZ tweaked its name by calling itself “93-7 BZZ”. This was done because the station did want any confusion of exactly where they were on the radio dial, especially considering that the only station in Pittsburgh actually on the 94 range (WWSW-FM) had an oldies format. It was also done to re-image their station to compete with its new rival, WKST. Later, in mid-2004, the station would tweak its name again, calling itself this time "B93-7".
On June 30, 2004, WBZZ’s on-air talent gathered to say goodbye to Pittsburgh, thanking them for their support throughout the years. Listeners that had liked B94 but didn't like the new rock format were encouraged on-air to listen to sister station WZPT. Ratings for 93.7 K-Rock improved initially after the switch, but began to decline before Howard Stern's departure for Sirius Satellite Radio.
To replace Stern, the station carried David Lee Roth's radio show as his replacement. However, due to low ratings, Roth was replaced by Opie and Anthony less than three months after his debut.
The afternoon drive show of Kidd Chris, from co-owned WYSP in Philadelphia, aired on 93.7 from August 28, 2006 until March 19, 2007.
On April 2, 2007, K-Rock became "93.7 The Zone," and changed call signs to WTZN-FM in the process. The station, although not carrying the "Free FM" name in its branding, was considered to be part of CBS's hot talk network by that name, the only station to affiliate with the network after the initial launch. Joining the lineup were Opie and Anthony, Pittsburgh native Dennis Miller, and former WDVE personality Scott Paulsen. The station also carried programming from Sporting News Radio. Miller and Paulsen were displaced to KDKA when the format was abandoned.
B94 returned to Pittsburgh the following Friday at 5 pm, with its first song being Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack." This marked CBS Radio's first top 40 station launch of the late 2000s; it would later launch the format in Houston (KKHH), San Francisco (KMVQ-FM), New York City (WXRK), Los Angeles (KAMP-FM), and Detroit (WVMV).
The return of B94 was apparently part of a CBS Radio initiative of resurrecting radio stations that had been killed off for other formats, such as WCBS-FM in New York and KFRC-FM in San Francisco. However, unlike those stations, which carry classic hits formats, B94 played current hits.
On November 27, 2007, WTZN switched its call sign to WBZW-FM to reflect its new format. B94's former call letters, WBZZ, were in use by an Adult Contemporary radio station in Malta, New York called Buzz 105.7. That station is now known as WQSH, and CBS has indicated an intention to reacquire the call signs for use on one of its properties (which would later be at WZPT).
In the wake of WAMO-FM's departure from the Urban Contemporary format in September 2009 after it was sold to a Catholic-based organization, WBZW have managed to take advantage of the situation by adding current R&B;/Hip-Hop tracks to pick up the displaced WAMO listeners, even at the expense of the more Rhythmic-heavy WKST, but at the same time stay within the Mainstream Top 40/CHR realm due to WKST's Rhythmic direction.
The station also adopted the call sign KDKA-FM, to reflect the recent trend for CBS Radio all-sports stations in markets with a heritage CBS-owned station to have matching call signs, in this case KDKA-TV and the historic KDKA Radio.
As with both the new format and when it was WTZN-FM, the only other FM talk station in Pittsburgh is WPGB.
KDKA-FM's ratings haven't seen any growth, in fact after the switch from B94 to The Fan, the ratings dropped drastically from a 4.3 market share in November 2009 to only a 1.0 market share in March 2010. It placed second among the three sports talk stations in the market, which led to ESPN Radio owned-and-operated station WEAE abandoning their format at the end of 2010 and KDKA-FM became the new Fox Sports Radio affiliate.
Category:Sports radio stations in the United States Category:Radio stations established in 1953
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