WKZV

WKZV

City	Washington, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Pittsburgh metropolitan area Wheeling, West Virginia
Branding	KZ Country
Frequency	1110 kHz
First air date	October 1, 1970 (as WKEG)
Last air date	May 16, 2013
Format	Defunct (formerly Country)
Power	1,000 watts (daytime)
Class	D
Facility ID	68687
Callsign meaning	KZ branding
Former callsigns	WKEG
Owner	My-Key Broadcasting

WKZV was a 1,000 watt, two-tower directional, daytime-only AM radio station in the Pittsburgh radio market, licensed to Washington, Pennsylvania. On May 16, 2013, the station went dark, and returned its license to the FCC, after ending its country music format of more than two decades.

History

The WKEG years

Known then as WKEG, the station was first issued a construction permit in August 1968, signing on October 1, 1970. Among the station's original staff at start-up was general manager Lew Wade, vice president Leo Shank, and chief engineer Richard Canter.

WKEG featured a full-service format of middle-of-the-road, country, and polka music. The polka show was hosted by local polka musician Gil Yurus, who joined the station at start-up and remained until financial troubles began in the late 1980s.

WKEG maintained its original owner until September 1972, when DiLeLo Broadcasting sold the station to Nascone Enterprises (dba Genas Broadcasting), a company headed by Joseph P. Nascone, the former sales manager of WTAE Radio in Pittsburgh.^[1]

Upon acquisition, Joe Nascone changed the station's format to easy listening. Genas Broadcasting operated the station until 1987 when it was purchased by Ferguson Broadcasting.

Relic from the past: Aging WKEG bill painted on the side of a building along North College Avenue at East Chestnut Street in Washington, Pennsylvania; across and down the street from the current WKZV studios. Photo: October 2007.

For many of its early years, the station operated out of a trailer at its transmitter site at 59 McLane Road (now Whitetail Drive) in Chartiers Township, north of downtown Washington, and then to the former George Washington Hotel in downtown Washington.

WKZV's transmitter building and original studio location until the 1980s on Whitetail Drive

WKZV two-tower directional antenna array

The station would move in the late 1980s to another studio location at 71 North Main Street in downtown Washington, following its purchase by Ferguson Broadcasting, and then to its final location on East Chestnut Street in 1990.

The third owner, William Ferguson, changed the station's format to adult contemporary, delivered via satellite through the Transtar Radio Network. The station ended up going dark in two years.

The station was then purchased by JJG Communications, a company headed by Carmichaels businessman John G. Brodak and John Loeper, the former general manager of WANB/WANB-FM in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.

JJG made another go of the station, this time with a news/talk/sports format, also mostly via satellite. The station failed again, and was off the air by October 1991.

WKZV's last studio location in its history on the second floor of 80 East Chestnut Street in Washington, Pennsylvania. Note the WKZV call letters on the second floor on-air studio window and the signage out front.

Rebirth as WKZV

The station returned to the air in the spring of 1992, this time with a new set of call letters; WKZV ("KZ Country") and a new owner, U.S. North Broadcasting, Inc.

Despite their best efforts and investment in studio overhauls, the station did not prosper. A little over a year later Helen Supinski bought the station from U.S. North Broadcasting, Inc. in March 1993, and continued to do business until May 2013 as My-Key Broadcasting.. Polka disc-jockey Mike Panjuscek served as station manager.

The new owner discontinued satellite-delivered country music format in May 1995 and hired two local announcers, Jeff Martin and Randy Allum, each working half of the broadcast day. Martin was the station's program director and Allum was music director. Jeffrey Gorman was the news director and Melissa Anderson worked weekends. Panjuscek gradually shifted the format to more of a classic country sound, with special emphasis on local country music artists and those on independent record labels, especially on weekends when Panjuscek did a Saturday afternoon show made up of bluegrass, classic country, and local artists. On Sunday afternoons Panjuscek, as "Polka Mike," did a show exclusively featuring polka music.

Announcer Randy Allum at the controls in the main on-air studio of WKZV in 1996. This was taken at the station's most recent studio location on the second floor of 80 East Chestnut Street in Washington, Pennsylvania.

Cease of operations

Panjuscek died on September 17, 2011.

The station owner, Helen Supinski, closed the station at the end of the day on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

In a letter to the FCC dated that day, WKZV's communications attorneys cited health reasons and adverse economic conditions as reasons to surrender the license.^[2]^[3] The FCC cancelled the station's license on May 21, 2013.

Helen Supinski died April 26, 2014 at the age of 90.

References

Radio the old way - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WKZV a radio rarity - The Observer-Reporter
WKZV off the air for good - The Observer-Reporter

External links

Media related to WKZV at Wikimedia Commons
Radio the Old Way...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Query the FCC's AM station database for WKZV

Radio-Locator Information on WKZV

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WKZV

Radio stations in the Pittsburgh market

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Defunct	WKZV 1110 AM WASP 1130 AM WBGI 1340 AM WSTV 1340 AM WZUM 1590 AM

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Defunct	WKZV – Washington

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania

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Stations	WAMO - Wilkinsburg WANB - Waynesburg WCHE - West Chester WECZ - Punxsutawney WEDO - McKeesport WFKJ - Cashtown WFYL - King of Prussia WGPA - Bethlehem WHYF - Shiremanstown WIEZ - Lewistown WIOO - Carlisle WJSM - Martinsburg WKFB - Jeannette WKQW - Oil City WLSH - Lansford WMCE - North East WNAP - Norristown WNWR - Philadelphia WPHE - Phoenixville WQOR - Olyphant WQTW - Latrobe WVPO - Stroudsburg WWDB - Philadelphia WWNL - Pittsburgh WWSM - Annville-Cleona WZSK - Everett

Defunct	WASP - Brownsville WKZV - Washington

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Media	Observer-Reporter Red & Black WJPA WNJR WKZV (defunct)

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Coordinates: 40°13′16″N 80°14′34″W / 40.22111°N 80.24278°W / 40.22111; -80.24278

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