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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
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Broadcast area | Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Frequency | 107.1 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Z107 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
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| History | |
First air date | September 21, 1972[1] |
Former call signs | WKXR-FM (1972–1982) |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 53385 | |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 5,200 watts |
| HAAT | 106 meters (348 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°1′38.3″N 70°52′49.1″W / 43.027306°N 70.880306°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | z107fm |
WERZ (107.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WERZ broadcasts from studios located on Lafayette Road in Portsmouth and from a transmitter located on Long Hill in Stratham. Its on-air call sign is "Z107, Exeter/Portsmouth". WERZ's signal serves the coastal area from Salem Harbor up north to Biddeford, Maine, including the Portsmouth and Dover-Rochester areas of New Hampshire, southern York County, Maine, and northeastern Massachusetts, where it overlaps with sister station WXKS-FM from Boston.
The station went on the air September 21, 1972,[1] as WKXR-FM. In March 1982, the call letters were changed to WERZ and the format was changed to Top 40/CHR as "Z107". The first program director was Jack O'Brien and the studios were located at 11 Downing Court in Exeter.
Boston area concert promoter Don Law's Precision Media purchased the station in 1986 and modified the format to a hybrid of adult contemporary and top 40 (hot adult contemporary) as "107 FM WERZ". In 1989, WERZ had a slogan of "13 Hits in a row" and competed wildly against WHEB AM–FM. Pete Falconi was program director and allowed air staff such as Lindsay Robins, Tim Fontaine, and Jeff the Doctor, to produce authentic, and unique radio shows. The result was pumping out as many hits an hour as possible, and providing the community of the Seacoast with live remote broadcasts. Ratings as per Arbitron (1989) competed well with WHEB.
Specialty weekend programs helped to boost ratings, including the legendary American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens, the Weekly Top 40 with Rick Dees, and The WERZ's House Party Saturday Night featuring uptempo party songs and a megamix of popular dance music, as well as frequent prize giveaways and heavy listener interaction and requests.
WERZ remained a hot throughout all of the 2000s. For the first time in December 2008, WERZ went all-Christmas. After the holiday season, WERZ became an adult contemporary. Then, in December 2009, WERZ went Christmas again and this time returned to a hot AC format.
In February 2010, WSKX and WERZ announced that Matty in the Morning, syndicated by WXKS-FM out of Boston, would be moving from WSKX to WERZ.
On October 4, 2012, at 3 pm, WERZ returned to a CHR format and the "Z107" branding.[3]
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WERZ (107.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WERZ broadcasts from studios located on Lafayette Road in Portsmouth and from a transmitter located on Long Hill in Stratham. Its on-air call sign is "Z107, Exeter/Portsmouth". WERZ's signal serves the coastal area from Salem Harbor up north to Biddeford, Maine, including the Portsmouth and Dover-Rochester areas of New Hampshire, southern York County, Maine, and northeastern Massachusetts, where it overlaps with sister station WXKS-FM from Boston.
Manfred Werz (15 May 1933 – 7 April 2021) was a German civil engineer and a president of the Federal Association of Road and Traffic Engineers (Bundesvereinigung der Straßenbau- und Verkehrsingenieure) from 1990 to 1993 and Road Administration Rheinland-Pfalz (Straßenverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz) (now known as Landesbetrieb Mobilität Rheinland-Pfalz) from 1995 to 1998 in Germany. In 1998, he earned the Wirtschaftsmedaille des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, a prestigious award and acknowledgement for his work, handed by Rainer Brüderle, Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate at the time. Werz died on 7 April 2021, at the age of 87.
Andreas Werz (born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1960) is an international concert pianist, music professor at California State University, Fresno, and has been the artistic director of the Philip Lorenz International Keyboard Concerts, a Central California concert series known for presenting internationally recognized pianists such as Emanuel Ax, Sergei Babayan, Barry Douglas, and Angela Hewitt, since 1992.
Philip Lorenz International Keyboard Concerts or Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts is an international keyboard concert series in Central California that was founded in 1972 (with the name Keyboard Concerts) by Philip Lorenz. In 1992, upon the passing of Philip Lorenz, president and artistic director, Andreas Werz was appointed by the Board as his successor. Noteworthy artists who have been part of the series include Emanuel Ax, Sergei Babayan, Barry Douglas, Richard Goode, Radu Lupu, Paul Badura-Skoda, Ruth Laredo, Tigran Hamasyan, Angela Hewitt, Garrick Ohlsson, Philippe Entremont and Yefim Bronfman.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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