Original Call Letters: WDAT

Originally Licensed: March 14, 1957 

Original City of License: South Daytona

Original Frequency: 1590

Origin of Call Letters:  

Original Power: 1,000 watts/32 watts night time

Original Location:

Original Format: Oldies

Network Affiliation(s):

1963-Seven Cities Broadcasting Corp.

1967-J. Shea Peeples

History Of WZIP
WZIP was originally WDAT before becoming WELE in the 70s, and it was co-owned with WELE-FM 105.9 Deland. Both stations were playing country music at the time. When Sidney Frazer and Sheldon Katz sold WELE-AM 1590 separately from the FM, that is when the call letters became WZIP, however, the format remained country for while before flipping to oldies. WZIP was a Mutual Broadcasting System network affiliate for Daytona Beach. The station was, and still is licensed to South Daytona, although, at one time, previous owner Frank Conale wanted to change the city of license to Port Orange. WZIP had a construction permit to increase its daytime power to 5,000 watts non directional, however, that Construction Permit expired sometime in 1983 or perhaps 1984 and WZIP never powered up past its current authorized 1,000 watt daytime authorization. 

Other Names In WZIP History

Frank Canale-General Manager

Howard Griboff

George "Harold" Utter-Engineer In Memory