WTJZ
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WTJZ is a Black Gospel formatted broadcast
radio station
licensed to Newport News, Virginia
, serving Hampton Roads
. WTJZ is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.
In the late 70s, the station became jazz oriented as WTJZ, in the eighties it became Gospel.
Broadcasting
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Radio station
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licensed to Newport News, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia
Newport News is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News...
, serving Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is the name for both a body of water and the Norfolk–Virginia Beach metropolitan area which surrounds it in southeastern Virginia, United States...
. WTJZ is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.
History
During the 1960s and early seventies, this station had been country music formatted WTID-AM. In the late 60s and early 70s, the station simulcasted with its FM sister station at 104.5, WTID-FM. In 1973, WTID-FM became Top 40 WQRK (it is now separately owned Top 40 WNVZ)In the late 70s, the station became jazz oriented as WTJZ, in the eighties it became Gospel.