WDZH

[2] WDZH broadcasts with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 50,000 watts from an antenna at 463 feet in height above average terrain (HAAT).

On July 16, 1980, WBFG was sold to Doubleday, which owned a number of radio stations around the U.S. in addition to its large publishing business.

In January 1981, just days after the fall Arbitron ratings were released, W4 changed formats from rock to country music, and terminated morning man Howard Stern, whose show had been crushed by his WLLZ competition of John Larson and Jeff Young.

[6] WLLZ saw its fortunes slip in the early 1990s with the emergence of "alternative rock" groups like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, which drove many of the 1980s "hair bands" off the charts.

[10] Halfway through the song, it was interrupted by the audio of Kanye West's famous "Imma let you finish" scene from the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (with new station voiceover announcer Dr. Dave Ferguson responding by saying "Uh, OK. Then we'll play Beyoncé.

Instead of revealing the name of the new format, WVMV was branded for that weekend as "98.7 Takeover", inviting listeners to register online and guess what the name of the new station was going to be.

[11][12] Unlike those two stations, WVMV did not start with 10,000 songs commercial free, instead offering commercial-free Mondays, which were discontinued in April 2011.

[14][15] Shortly after 5:00 p.m. on November 9, 2018, midway through the song "Drew Barrymore" by SZA, WDZH began stunting with Christmas music as The Rudolph Network at 98.7.

Initially believed to run through the holiday season, the stunt abruptly ended at 5:00 p.m. on November 12, as the station flipped to a soft adult contemporary format as 98.7 The Breeze, launching with a commercial-free marathon of 10,000 songs, starting with "Baby, What a Big Surprise" by Chicago.

[16][17] Beginning in 2019 and ending the following year, WDZH carried Christmas music for the holiday season, replacing sister station WOMC as Entercom's home for the programming within its Detroit cluster.

As with its main format, it competed primarily with WNIC, which, as mentioned above, has historically been the most prominent station for Christmas music in Detroit.

WDZH currently features on-air talent exclusively from sister stations across the country, including WNYL in New York, KRBZ in Kansas City, and KROQ in Los Angeles.

[20][21] Such a move had been rumored to take place since shortly after Entercom took over the station in November 2017, as Entercom had flipped several other "Amp Radio" branded stations across the country to the format, including the aforementioned WNYL, shortly after their merger with CBS Radio; however, rival iHeartMedia pulled a preemptive move around that same time, flipping WDTW-FM (now WLLZ (FM)) to the format and "Alt" branding with little warning.

[25] On March 28, 2014, the station activated its HD3 sub-channel, and began airing a modern rock format, branded as Area 9-8-7, The Real Alternative.