WAVZ

Infobox Radio station
name = WAVZ


city = New Haven, Connecticut
area = New Haven
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slogan = "The Voice - Progressive Talk Radio"
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frequency = 1300 kHz
format = Sports Talk
power = 1000 Watts
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class = B
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coordinates = coord|41|17|16|N|72|56|48|W
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owner = CC Licenses
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website = [http://www.wavz.com/ wavz.com]
affiliations = ESPN Radio"WAVZ"' (1300 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Sports Talk format. Licensed to New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The station is currently owned by Cc Licenses. The station switched formats in time for Super Bowl XLI on February 4, 2007.

The station, then owned by Kops-Monahan Communications, Inc. was formerly known as the New Waves, or Lucky 13 WAVZ (pronounced "waves") and was a popular Top 40 radio station in the 1960s and 1970s. During the 60s, WAVZ competed with WDEE (1220, now WQUN), and later with WNHC (1340, now WYBC) for radio listeners. WAVZ generally won most of the rating "books."

As FM radio became more popular, the station's rock music format was shifted to sister FM station WKCI in 1979 by Curtis Hanson and Pete Salant. WKCI had been an easy-listening station but in the summer of 1979 became "KC-101" and began playing adult contemporary music using many of the then current WAVZ personalities. Due to the success of KC101, Pete Salant a/k/a Pete Stone on WAVZ, left New Haven in 1981 to program WYNY/New York. WAVZ became one of the first Music Of Your Life (MOYL) stations, airing big band and adult standards. The stations (WAVZ & WKCI) were sold to Eastern Broadcasting of Washington, DC on June 5, 1982 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805EED91E38F936A35755C0A964948260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/R/Radio] Upon the sale of the radio stations, Curtis W. Hansen left in 1982 to create WEBE (WEBE 108) in Westport, CT.

On air DJ's included:

-Bobby Ocean

-Mason Dixon

-Smokin' Willie B Goode

-John Long

-Dana Stevens

-Jack Mitchell

-Friendly Floyd Wright

-Judge Harrigan

-Lee Roberts

-Paul The Morning Mayor

-Cathy Cardinal

-Curtis W. Hansen

-Lise

-Charlie Wagoner

-Bill Shane

-Jay Scott

-Peter Bush

-Sunshine (Paul Resnik)

-Gene Simons (not member of Kiss rock group) a/k/a. Fred Andrews

-Lloyd Presant (broadcast engineer who was heard during winter holidays)

-Krazy Jerry Kristaferwith Peggy The Time Telling Pig

-Pete Stone a/k/a Pete Salant

-Ron Foster

-Big Johnny Walker

-Brian Phoenix

-Chris Clarke (mornings on MOYL 1979-1982, later on WFAS until 2007)

-Bill Beamish (was on WAVZ in 1960s, returned in 1982 as morning host)

-Bob Dark (Al Santos) did overnights on WAVZ from Dec'69 through May'71

-Bob Perry (PD of WAVZ 1982-1985, created the JACK-FM format in 2000, President of Big Sticks Broadcasting)

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More recently, the station was a progressive talk radio station affiliate with Air America Radio.

More information about WAVZ can be found in an ebook by former WAVZ program director John Long at www.oidar.com.
* [http://www.oidar.com/POTH.htm "Puttin' on the Hits"] – E-book by John Long

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