WBZZ
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| City | New Kensington, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
| Branding | 100.7 Star |
| Slogan | "Plays The Hits" |
| Frequency | 100.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) 100.7 HD-2-80's/90's/2000's Hits ("B94 Replay") 100.7 HD-3-Contemporary Hit Radio ("AMP Radio") |
| First air date | 1963 (as WPGH-FM) |
| Format | Adult Top 40 |
| ERP | 14,500 watts |
| HAAT | 280 meters (920 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 20351 |
| Callsign meaning | Derived from the former B94 calls |
| Former callsigns | WYDD (1963-1967) WNUF (1967-1984) WWCL (1984-1985) WXXP (1985-1988) WMXP (1988-1993) WQKB (1993-1998) WZPT (1998-2011) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio Stations Inc.) |
| Sister stations |
KDKA, KDKA-FM, WDSY-FM part of CBS Corp. cluster with TV stations KDKA-TV & WPCW |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | starpittsburgh.com |
WBZZ (100.7 FM, "100.7 Star") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. The station broadcasts a Top-40-leaning Adult Top 40 format to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, market. Owned by CBS Radio, the station operates at 100.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 14.5 kilowatts. Its transmitter is located in Pittsburgh's Spring Hill district and its studios are located west of downtown.
100.7 originally signed on the air in 1963 as WYDD with a power of 10,000 watts in New Kensington, operating as the FM sister station of WKPA, also licensed to New Kensington. In 1967 another FM license, WPGH-FM, was dropped in Pittsburgh at 104.7. The owner of WYDD, Gateway Broadcasting Enterprises, applied for 104.7 and the FCC granted the license. WYDD assumed 104.7, changed its city of license to Pittsburgh, and increased its power to 50,000 watts.
A condition of the grant was that Gateway would have to sell the 100.7 frequency to stay compliant with FCC rules and regulations at the time that forbade a licensee to own more than one FM and one AM in a single market.
Because New Kensington was part of the Pittsburgh market, 100.7 was sold to Millvale-based publisher Milton Hammond, who used the channel for WNUF. The city of license remained New Kensington with a new transmitter site in Russellton. The owner tried to get the call-letters WFUN, but since it was already assigned to another station, the station settled for "fun" backwards, hence the WNUF call-letters. During the construction phrase of WNUF, an agreement was reached with WOMP (100.5 FM) that allowed both stations to increase their power without subjecting one or the other to co-channel interference. WNUF received permission to increase its power from 10,000 to 20,000 watts.
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