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The Essentials

Frequency: Formerly 1410am
Frequency: 96.5fm
City of License: Lafayette
Metro(s): Lafayette
Power: AM: 1000 watts FM: 50,000 watts @ 499 feet (Class B)
Format: AM: Country FM: CHR
Address: P.O. Box 1410, Lafayette, IN, 47902-1410
Address: 3824 South 18th Street, Lafayette, IN 47909-9102
Phone: 765.474.1410
FAX: 765.474.3442
Ownership: Artistic Media Partners, Inc.
Network Affiliation(s): AM: CNN Radio News, Jones Radio Network ("Music of Your Life"), Purdue Sports Radio Network
Web Presence: http://www.wazy.com

Station Personnel

Current

Production Director: Roger Forsythe
Mornings: CeeJay ("Z96-5's Morning Zoo") (6am - 10am)
Afternoons: Bitsy (2pm - 6pm)

Former

WAZY(AM)

GM: Bob Ford
GM: Hal Youart
GM: Robert Ingram
Chief Engineer: Bob Henning
GSM: Nancy May (May 1999 - ?)
SM: Doug Kern
OM: Jeff Weber (1977-1980) (Now Executive Vice-President of the Business TalkRadio Network)
OM: Dan McClintock (October 1998 - November 1998) (Now with the Cumulus group of stations in Rochester, Minnesota)
PD: Michael Stone (? - September 1998)
PD: Steve Clark
PD: J.J. Davis (March 2001 - October 24, 2003) (From OM at WARU and WHZR)
PD: Beau Derek (October 2003 - ?) (From afternoons at WJFX) (Now Production Director at WOMC in Detroit, Michigan)
PD: Dave Michaels (April 2005 - August 2005) (Was also Group PD of WBTU, then-WDDB, and WLFF) (Now Assistant OM/MD and afternoons at WQHK)
PD: Dana Marshall (Now out of radio)
PD: Dan Baisden (August 2006 - December 2006) (From PD at WQHY in Prestonburg, Kentucky) (Now OM for the Grenax Broadcasting stations in Flagstaff, Arizona)
PD: Dave Allison
APD: Hunter (? - July 2004)
MD: Hunter (? - July 2004)
MD: Zak Taylor (January 2003 - ?)
MD: Scotty Blades
Production Director: Kevin Murphy (? - April 2000) (Now Production Director/mornings at KKOR in Gallup, New Mexico)
Production Director: Mike Warner
Production Director: Steve Clark
Imaging Director: Zak Taylor (March 2002 - ?) (Nights: March 2002 - January 2003; Afternoons: January 2003 - ?) (From nights at WVSR in Charleston, West Virginia)
Mornings: Bob Richards
Afternoons: Dr. Dean Edell
Afternoons: Dave Allison
Airstaff: Charly Butcher (Now mornings at WOWO)
Nights: Scotty Blades (6pm - 10pm)

WAZY-FM

GM: Bob Ford
(Interim) GM: Sandy Zehr
GM: Hal Youart
GM: Robert Ingram
OM: Jeff Weber (1977 - 1980)
GSM: Nancy May (May 1999 - ?)
SM: Doug Kern
SM: Sandy Zehr
OM: Dan McClintock (October 1998 - November 1998) (Now with the Cumulus group of stations in Rochester, Minnesota)
OM: Jimmy Knight (? - January 2011) (Now OM at WMEE)
PD: Michael Stone (? - September 1998)
PD: Steve Clark
PD: J.J. Davis (March 2001 - October 24, 2003) (From OM at WARU and WHZR)
PD: Beau Derek (October 2003 - ?) (From afternoons at WJFX)
PD: Tommy Frank (? - November 2004) (Deceased 30 October 2008)
PD: Dave Michaels (April 2005 - August 2005) (Was also Group PD of WBTU, then-WDDB, and WLFF) (Now Assistant OM/MD and afternoons at WQHK)
PD: Dana Marshall (Now out of radio)
PD: Dan Baisden (August 2006 - December 2006) (From PD at WQHY in Prestonburg, Kentucky) (Now PD/MD at WDOH and WZOQ in Lima, Ohio)
PD: Dave Allison
APD: Hunter (? - July 2004)
MD: Hunter (? - July 2004)
MD: Zak Taylor (January 2003 - ?)
MD: Scotty Blades
MD: Kim Iverson (March 2007 - ?)
Production Director: Kevin Murphy (? - April 2000) (Now Production Director/mornings at KKOR in Gallup, New Mexico)
Production Director: Mike Warner
Imaging Director: Zak Taylor (March 2002 - ?) (Nights: March 2002 - January 2003; Afternoons: January 2003 - ?) (From nights at WVSR in Charleston, West Virginia)
Mornings: Bob Richards (5am - 10am) (February 2000 - December 2002)
Mornings: J.J. Davis (5am - 10am) (? - October 24, 2003; Afternoons: March 2001 - ?)
Mornings: Stephanie Patterson (5am - 10am) (Now mornings at WNDV)
Mornings: Gavin Todd (November 2003 - August 2006) (From weekends at WCCQ in Joliet, Illinois)
Mornings: Larry Clisby (5am - 10am) (February 2000 - ?)
Mornings: Kim Iverson (6am - 10am)
Mornings: Jake (6am - 10am)
Middays: Rachel Morgan (10am - 3pm)
Afternoons: Dave Allison
Afternoons: Dave North (February 2000 - March 15, 2000; Mornings: ? - February 2000) (Now afternoons at KXTC in Gallup, New Mexico)
Afternoons: Hunter (? - July 2004)
Afternoons: Beau Derek (2pm - 6pm) (October 2003 - ?) (From afternoons at WJFX)
Afternoons: Jimmy Knight (? - January 2011) (3pm - 7pm) (Now OM at WMEE)
Nights: Matt Ryan (6pm - 11pm)
Nights: Marci (January 2003 - ?)
Nights: Chris Cruise (Now afternoons at WJFX)
Nights: Scotty Blades (6pm - 10pm)
Airstaff: Charly Butcher (Now mornings at WOWO)

Station History

WAZY(AM)

1410am signed on November 28, 1959. In the early 1980's, WAZY(AM) changed format from CHR to Lite AC and acquired new call letters. Between 1980 and 1984, the format changed to country, and the calls flipped to WFTE. 1984 brought another change ...WAZY(AM) was sold to The First Assembly of God and changed calls to WCFY. In April 1998, the calls changed back to WAZY and the format switched from religious to news-talk. In October 2000, the station flipped to standards, using Westwood One's satellite service and CNN Radio News hourly news updates. In 2001, WAZY(AM) dropped Westwood One in favor of Jones' Music of Your Life standards format. WAZY(AM) changed calls to WLAS in September 2002 and remained standards for a couple weeks before it dropped the format altogether in favor of a 24/7 simulcast of country sister station WLFF.

WAZY-FM

Signed on in March, 1965. In the early to mid-1970's, WAZY-FM moved dial positions from 96.7fm to 96.5fm. Also with that move came a power increase: from 3,000 watts to its present-day 50,000 watts. Following in the footsteps of many CHRs across the country in the early 90s, Z-96 dropped CHR in favor of Hot AC, calling themselves simply "96 WAZY." WAZY went to satellite Hot AC in 1998 (via Westwood One's Bright AC format) as "96-5 WAZY". Briefly in the fall of 2000, WAZY flipped to mainstream AC (through Westwood One's Soft AC format). Finally on March 16, 2001, the station went back to CHR, bringing the format back to Lafayette after an 8 year hiatus. The station continued to be known as "96-5 WAZY" until March 2004 when WAZY reimaged to "Z 96-5." The CHR format continues to this day.

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