WORZ-AM 740               
Orlando

Original Call Letters:
WORZ
Originally Licensed:
Feb 8, 1947 
Original City of  License:
Orlando
Original Power: 
1,000 watts
Original Format:
Pop
Network Affiliation(s):
WORZ-NBC

Owner(s): 1947-
                1966-
Tom Cassel
                1971
-Susquehanna Radio 
                1988-Guy Gannett Broadcasting
                1994
-Paxson Broadcasting
                1997-Clear Channel Communications        


History Of  Call Letters and Formats:
WORZ-1947
                                                         
WKIS-1960's-Adult Contemporary
                                                          WKIS-1979-News/Talk  "NewsTalk 74"
                                                         
WWNZ-1988-News/Talk
                                                         
WQTM-2001-Sports Talk formerly on 540 kHz

History of WORZ
WORZ took to the air on Feb. 8, 1947, with 1,000 watts of power as another NBC affiliate at 740 on the AM dial. Offices and studios were at 790 N. Orange Ave., and the station's transmitter was on Old Winter Garden Road. In those  days, NBC had two radio networks, called the red and the blue networks. In 1949, you could listen to the
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis show on Friday evenings.


WORZ-WKIS Winter Garden studios_2-Jeff D'Aurora.jpg (126562 bytes)
                       
This building on Winter Garden Road was built to house WORZ-AM 740, WORZ-FM 100.3 as well as  a planned TV studio as WORZ was granted a license to transmit on channel 9. Seems they ran out of money and channel 9 became WLOF TV.  The area in the back of the station which housed the Sales dept. was to be the TV studio. 


                                                             
click photo for full sized view
                                                        Thanks to Jeff D'Aurora for the photo.



WORZ Personalities
Russ Wheeler-
Biography

Bob Andrews-
Biography
Tony Chastain
-host of the first "Talk Show" in Central Florida
Walt Sickles-Walt would move to TV on "Adventures with Uncle Walt" on WDBO-TV 6
Gordon Town
Lou Kennedy
(Lou Candido)

Sammy and Marsha-hosted a breakfast show from their home
                     

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