WZXL

WZXL (100.7 FM, "100.7 ZXL") is a commercial radio station known as "South Jersey's Rock Station". It is owned by iHeartMedia and airs a mainstream rock format. WZXL is licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey, with studios on Black Horse Pike in West Atlantic City, part of Egg Harbor Township.

WZXL

Wildwood, New Jersey
Broadcast area	Atlantic City - Cape May
Frequency	100.7 MHz
Branding	100.7 WZXL
Programming
Format	Mainstream Rock
Ownership
Owner	iHeartMedia (iHM Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	WAYV, WTTH, WZBZ
History
First air date	December 17, 1959 (1959-12-17)
Former call signs	WCMC-FM (1959–1981) WNBR (1981–1986)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	70260
Class	B
ERP	38,000 watts
HAAT	101 meters (331 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°07′28.4″N 74°45′54.6″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1007wzxl.iheart.com

Operating with 38,000 watts, WZXL serves much of South Jersey including Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Beach Island, and Cumberland County. WZXL's signal also reaches Sussex County, Delaware, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The transmitter tower is on Avalon Boulevard, near the Garden State Parkway, just east of Swainton.

History

The 100.7 frequency was originally used in the 1940s by the owners of 1490 WBAB as 100.7 WBAB-FM. However, WBAB-FM was gone by the early 1950s and the frequency was silent in the Atlantic-Cape May market for nearly a decade.

On December 17, 1959, the owners of WCMC 1230 in Wildwood signed on the 100.7 frequency as WCMC-FM. WCMC-FM was only powered at 3,500 watts, a fraction of its current output. WCMC-AM-FM mostly simulcast a middle of the road (MOR) format of popular adult music, news and sports. The FM frequency did break away from the AM station at times during the baseball season by broadcasting Philadelphia Phillies games.

In 1981, WCMC-FM changed its call sign to WNBR and began playing adult contemporary music. The WCMC-FM call letters eventually wound up on a station in North Carolina.

On November 26, 1986, WNBR switched to WZXL, playing an album rock format that continues to this day, although the style of rock music has changed over the years.

Once a year, WZXL has a listener appreciation party known as the "Bike Bash." Recent Bike Bashes have been held at the Golden Nugget casino and the House of Blues at Showboat Atlantic City.

On August 7, 2023, Equity Communications announced that it would sell WZXL, along with its three other FM stations in the Atlantic City-Cape May market, to iHeartMedia. The acquisition was completed later that year on December 5.

Programming

JoJo and Scotty host the local wake up show. Outside of morning drive time, the station airs voicetracked DJs from other cities.

In 2013, 100.7 WZXL became the South Jersey radio home of Philadelphia Phillies baseball. In 2024, longtime DJ and program director Steve Raymond was laid off as part of corporate downsizing.

Signal note

WZXL is short-spaced to two other Class B stations operating on 100.7 MHz: WLEV 100.7 WLEV (licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania) and WZBA 100.7 The Bay (licensed to Westminster, Maryland). The distance between WZXL's transmitter and WLEV's transmitter is only 106 miles (171 km), while the distance between WZXL's transmitter and WZBA's transmitter is only 110 miles (180 km), as determined by FCC rules. The minimum distance between two Class B stations operating on the same channel according to current FCC rules is 150 miles.

External links

• Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 70260 (WZXL) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WZXL in Nielsen Audio's FM station database