WZRT

WZRT

City of license	Rutland, Vermont
Broadcast area	Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area
Branding	Z97.1
Slogan	Your Hit Music Station
Frequency	97.1 MHz
First air date	1974 (as WRUT)
Format	Top 40/CHR
ERP	1,150 watts
HAAT	790 meters
Class	C2
Facility ID	25741
Transmitter coordinates	43°36′17.00″N 72°49′14.00″W / 43.6047222°N 72.8205556°W / 43.6047222; -72.8205556
Callsign meaning	W Z97 RuTland
Former callsigns	WRUT (1974-1989)
Owner	Pamal Broadcasting (6 Johnson Road Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	WDVT, WJEN, WJJR, WSYB
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	z971.com

WZRT (97.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Rutland, Vermont, USA, the station serves the Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction area. The station is currently owned by Pamal Broadcasting.

Z97 assumed the WZRT call sign in 1989, prior to that the station had the call sign of WRUT. Z97 branded itself as "The Official Ski Station" and later on as "The Official Ski and Ride Station". Z97 broadcast live from many restaurants and nightclubs throughout Killington. In particular, Z97 began a long relationship with two of Killington's largest and famous nightclubs with nightly and apres-ski live broadcasts throughout ski season.

All Communications eventually sold out to H & D Media, which eventually became Excalibur Media. Z97 expanded its winter advertising base to include Okemo, Bromley, Magic Mountain, Sugarbush, West Mountain, and Stratton Mountain. During the latter half of the 1990s Z97 would broadcast the popular "Stratton Mountain Ski and Ride Show" live every Saturday morning from Stratton Mountain from 7:00-10:00.

From 2003 until the middle of 2007, WZRT was in the process of being acquired by Catamount Radio, but never eventually came to fruition. On July 3, 2003, under the ownership of Clear Channel Radio, the station changed its identity to KISS-FM,^[1] following the already popular station name from other markets. In May 2006, Albany, New York-based Pamal Broadcasting acquired KISS-FM in a swap of stations with Clear Channel.^[2] One of the station's last known live on-air shows was the Thunderstorm with DJ Vince-1, a hip-hop mixshow which broadcast Thursday evenings on the station. Vince-1 is now employed as a radio account executive in the Boston market.

In 2007, Pamal returned WZRT to Z97^[3] and in early 2008, the station rebranded as Z97.1, adding the syndicated "Bob and Sheri" morning show from WLNK in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2011, the show was transferred over to WJJR, a sister station of Catamount Radio, and in its place, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show began broadcasting weekday mornings.

References

External links

Z97.1's official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WZRT

Radio-Locator information on WZRT

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WZRT

Radio stations in the Lebanon, New Hampshire–Rutland, Vermont market

By AM frequency	1010 1230 1380 1400 1480 1490

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.5 90.5 91.3 91.5 91.7 92.1 92.3 93.9 94.5 95.3 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.7 98.1 99.3 99.7 100.5 101.3 101.5 102.1 102.7 103.1 103.7 104.3 105.3 106.1 106.3 107.1

By callsign	WCNL WEQX WEXP WFRD WFTF WFYX WGLV WGXL WHDQ WIUV WJEN WJJR WJKS WKNE WLTN-FM WMTK WNCH WNTK-FM WOOL WRJT WRVT WSNI WSYB WTSL WTSV WVPR WVTK WVXR WWOD WXLF WXXK WYKR-FM WZLF WZRT

Defunct radio stations	910/WNHV 970/WHWB 1340/WDCR 100.1/WOOL-LP 107.3/WXND-LP

Vermont radio markets Burlington Montpelier–Barre–St. Johnsbury Rutland–White River Junction Other Vermont radio regions Northeast Kingdom New Hampshire radio markets Concord (Lakes Region) Lebanon Manchester Portsmouth–Dover–Rochester Other New Hampshire radio regions Northern New Hampshire See also List of radio stations in Vermont List of radio stations in New Hampshire

Pamal Broadcasting

AM Radio Stations:	WBNR WENU WGHQ WLNA WMML WROW WSYB

FM Radio Stations:	WAJZ WBPM WDVT WFFG-FM WFLY WHUD WINU WJEN WJJR WKBE WKLI-FM WNYQ WSPK WXPK WYJB WZRT

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