WDJZ

WDJZ (1590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to South Daytona, Florida, and serving the Daytona Beach metropolitan area. It is owned by Glenn Cherry and it broadcasts a smooth jazz radio format.

WDJZ transmits with 1,000 watts by day, 47 watts at night, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Daytona Beach.² Programming is also heard on 220-watt FM translator W264DP at 100.7 MHz in Daytona Beach.³

The station signed on the air on February 19, 1957 under the call sign WDAT.⁴ It was a country-western station. Its callsign changed to WELE in 1959, and its format changed to an R&B music format in 1963 before going back to country by 1967.⁵ In 1981, the station took on new call letters WZIP and became an oldies station before returning to country in 1986.⁵

In 1988, a group of investors who were graduates of the historically black Morehouse College bought WZIP. The callsign changed to WPUL and format changed to urban contemporary.⁶

Until 2022, WPUL broadcast progressive talk radio shows including The Thom Hartmann Program and The Stephanie Miller Show as well as various African-American-oriented shows including Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton and locally produced shows.⁷

The station was silent beginning on February 17, 2014, as station owners sought a new broadcast tower site.⁶

On September 16, 2022, the station changed its call sign to WDJZ, which stands for Daytona Jazz.