WZAZ
City of license | Jacksonville, Florida |
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Branding | Gospel 1400, The Light |
Frequency | 1400 AM (kHz) |
Format | Gospel |
Power | 1000 Watts |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 68761 |
Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Owner | Titus Harvest Dome Spectrum Church, Inc. |
Website | http://www.wzaz.com/ |
WZAZ (1400 AM, "Gospel 1400, The Light") is a Gospel music formatted radio station in Jacksonville, Florida. It is the flagship station for Edward Waters College football.
In the media
"WZAZ" is the name of the fictional Chicago radio station in the movie Airplane! from 1980. Shortly after repeating its motto, "Where Disco Lives Forever!," the station is knocked off the air when the eponymous airplane clips the station's broadcasting tower while attempting to make an emergency landing. The fictional call letters stood for initials of the writers of the film, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker.
A fictional television station bearing the "WZAZ" callsign appears twice on the side of a news reporters 1974 Ford Country Squire station wagon as seen at the beginning of the 1976 movie The Big Bus. Briefly in another scene, a reporters camera is seen at the bus terminal's front doors filming the busses passengers with the same callsign.
A fictional radio station bearing the "WZAZ" callsign also appeared in the original movie The Longest Yard released in 1974 with Burt Reynolds.
A fictional television station bearing the "WZAZ" callsign appears in the sitcom Happy Days and also in The Andy Griffith Show episode "The Mayberry Chef". It also appears on an episode of The Odd Couple, entitled The New Car. Dick Clark is a DJ at the station.
External links
- WZAZ official website
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WZAZ
- Radio-Locator Information on WZAZ
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WZAZ
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