On May 1, 1962, the station signed on the air in Shelbyville, Tennessee, a small city about 60 miles south of Nashville. The call sign was WTCV and it mostly simulcast co-owned WHAL (1400 AM, now WZNG). In 1980, it switched its call letters to WYCQ and it called itself "Q102" with a Top 40 format, but its signal did not cover Nashville. Management asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow the transmitter to be moved north and to increase the power to 100,000 watts, so it could become part of the Nashville radio market.
With the boost in power and coverage, the station flipped to a hybrid Country/Southern Rock format known as "Rockin' Country 102.9". The station's mascot was an anthropomorphic cow playing an electric guitar, and the station eventually changed its name to "Moo 102" (WMMU) to match its mascot. The station then shifted toward a mainstream country format and became known as "PC103" and "Power Country 103", before settling on "Power Country 102.9" (WZPC).
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On April 2, 1999, WZPC flipped to an album rock format as "The Buzz," essentially "trading" formats with WKDF, which had flipped from rock to country the day prior.[4] The station was assigned the WBUZ call letters by the FCC on October 16, 2001.[1]
The callsign WBUZ was originally assigned to a station in Bradbury Heights, Maryland. It began broadcasting January 1, 1948.[6] WBUZ was the call sign of a former AM Top 40 station in Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1993 to 2000 (see WBOW (1230 AM)), and prior to that, an AM station in Fredonia, New York.
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