Technical Profile: WZNF

FM Technical Profile: WZNF

Station Name:: 95.3 the Gorilla
Frequency:: 95.3
Format:: CHR
Transmitter Location:: [map] [street view] Just northeast of the intersection of Wire Road and City Bridge Road southeast of Wiggins. Co-located or beside WZKX.
Power (ERP):: 100 kW
Antenna:: Directional
Antenna HAAT:: 1426 feet
Other Information:: 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.; :
PS-(song) (artist) GORILLA
Time-No
Text-blank
PTY-Top 40
PI-WZNF-FM
More Information:: [FCC]; [FCCdata]; [Radio-Locator]; [Wikipedia]
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[Picture] Image of an Insignia HD portable's display showing the Radio Text and PI (call sign) RDS fields.
[Picture] Image from a Mazda sedan's radio, showing the PS (station name), Radio Text and PTY (format) fields, from August 2017.
Owner:: JLE, Inc.
History:: WZNF started out as WLUN, a class A station licensed to Lumberton. The station got an upgrade to class C1 with increased coverage, and now competes in the Biloxi-Gulfport metro area. Before the move to classic rock, the station was WLNF (Live Ninety Five), a straight-up rock station. Despite being the only heritage classic rock station on the Mississippi gulf coast, the owners flipped the format to top 40 and rebranded the station as "The Gorilla" in early April of 2014. They are now going head to head with the small class A competitor "107.1 The Monkey".

In January 2022 it was announced the Biloxi/Gulfport Dowdy and Dowdy stations were being sold to JLE, Inc., for $3.25 million. JLE, Inc. is owned by John Dowdy's two daughters.

In early November 2023 the station applied to drop their directional antenna. In order to maintain proper channel spacing with WHLH in Jackson, Mississippi, the station will reduce power to just 40 kW. No other changes were proposed.