Original Call Letters: WDAT

Originally Licensed: June 1957

Original City of  License: South Daytona

Original Frequency: 1590 

Origin of Call Letters:

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

Original Format:  Oldies

Original Location:

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 at the time. When Sidney Fraser 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 CP 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

Charles Cherry-1987-President-Tama Communications