WPKZ (1280 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news–talk and sports format and licensed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States.

"Ray C" began a part-time stint as Public Service Director and co-host of the Saturday morning program Smart Shopper which he did from 2007 until his death on March 13, 2016.

In November 2007, the station began airing a Spanish tropical format during the evening hours, branded "Mega 1280".

[4] On April 6, 2009, after nearly 68 years as WEIM, the call sign was changed to WPKZ in anticipation of its new FM translator which went on the air on March 28, 2010 on a frequency of 105.3 MHz.

[5] WPKZ became one of several radio stations in New England to carry the New York Yankees in 2012; it had previously carried the Boston Red Sox for 45 years,[6] but Entercom, owner of Red Sox flagship station WEEI, did not offer a renewal of WPKZ's contract.