AM Technical Profile: DWZCT

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Frequency:

1330

Format:

Southern Gospel

Transmitter Location:

[map] [street view] Practically due north of the Scottsboro Airport, between Scottsboro and Hollywood.  North of Ridgedale Road, north and east of Edna Drive.

Power (ERP):

Day: 5 kW

Night: 38 watts

Antenna:

1 tower

Other Information:

0.5 mV/m Daytime Groundwave Service Contour from the FCC's Public Files
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[Studio] Google Street View of the station's studios in Scottsboro.
Owned by Bonner and Carlisle Enterprises

History:

Rose M. Kirby (as Scottsboro Broadcasting Company) put this station on the air in 1952 as a 1 kW daytimer.  The calls were originally WROS for her name.  The studios and transmitter were originally at 717 Scott Street in Scottsboro.

Through the mid-70's, the station was a bit of a full service outlet, with country, rock and Middle of the Road (MOR) music played.  KEA Radio, Inc., purchased the station in the spring of 1978.  They changed the calls to WKEA (to compliment their existing station, which became WKEA-FM.)  They moved the music to an Adult Contemporary format.  They also moved the studios to the "Word Arcade" in Town Square.

The station received a permit to increase power to 5 kW, with a small amount of night power, in 1980, but didn't get it built out until 1982.  At this time, the transmitter site moved to its present location.  The station flipped to a gospel music format in 1987, along with the WSGG calls (Scottsboro's Gospel Giant?) 

Bonner and Carlisle Enterprises bought the station in 1990 and flipped the format to oldies, along with the WZCT calls.  By about 2000 or 2001, the station had gone Southern Gospel and never looked back.
 

In what is no doubt a snafu on the FCC's part, they show three callsign changes all on the same day, March 5^th, 1990.  Those calls are KZCT, WSGG and WZCT.

The station signed off on 1 March 2021, after filing a letter with the FCC in mid-February asking for the license to be deleted for unspecified reasons.