Z100

“Z100” 100.3 KKRZ Portland Relaunches

March 11th, the on-air staff gets fired. Z100 plays music and promotes “The Death of a Portland Institution”. KKRZ has been the Top40/CHR station since 1984. Others have tried and failed. All week, they play the regular playlist, get all the hype going and on March 15th, 4:40 PM, a heartbeat recording is played. At 5:00, they go through this montage of sounds with Bjork singing in the background and after about 2 minutes, launch into – whaddayaknow – Z100 – the local Top40/CHR outlet. Basically, they are playing a little more rhythmic to compete with KXJM “Jammin 95.5” and they are slowly bringing back the airstaff. Thank you to Aircheck Dex for supplying us with the clip, and Craig Busic with the summary.

Z100 WZRI Becomes Rock WKKB

Previous Format: 80s Hits “Z100” WZRI New Format: Rock “100.3 KKB” WKKB Date & Time Of Change: October 31, 2002 More Info: Wikipedia Aircheck Contributed by Jeff Lehmann

WZRA Becomes WSKO-FM

Previous Format: 80s Hits “Z100” WZRA New Format: Sports “99.7 The Score” WSKO-FM Date & Time Of Change: May 13, 2002 More Info: Wikipedia Aircheck Contributed by Jeff Lehmann

Z100 Launches

Previous Format: Standards/Jazz WVNJ New Format: CHR “Z100” WHTZ Date & Time Of Change: August 2, 1983 at 6:08am More Info: Wikipedia

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