WNDZ is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a brokered programming

Brokered programming

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 format. Licensed to Portage, Indiana

Portage, Indiana

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, USA, it serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Newsweb Corporation

Newsweb Corporation

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History

It began when radio entrepreneurs Tom Jurek of WRIN, Rensselaer, and Annie Rose, a noted psychic, sold the frequency they found to begin a Merrillville, IN radio station to Universal Broadcasting out of New York, who were interested in starting a religious formated station. It began broadcasting in March of 1987 as a day-time only station, with Rick Schwartz as its first General Mangager. The business office and studios were located in Lansing, Illinois.

Prior to the sale to Newsweb Corporation in 2004, the station was owned by Spanish broadcaster Entravision. The format has remained brokered for many years, even during the time it was owned by Entravision. WNDZ was also for a time home to the "Personal Achievement Radio Network" and continued to air recorded programming from this network after its demise as a filler.

Shows

SPORTSLINEhttp://www.zforcemedia.com/sportsline.html is an hour long sports talk show that airs live,Sunday mornings at 11 hosted by Gary Zahara and Danny Carlino. The show began airing on WNDZ in November 2007 after moving over from AM1530-WJJG. It features interviews with sports personalities and commentary. The ONLY local sports talkshow at that time in Chicago. The show is produced by Z-FORCE MEDIA.

Other programming includes various brokered foreign language programming, much of it in Slavic

Slavic languages

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 languages including: Serbian

Serbian language

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, Croatian

Croatian language

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, Macedonian

Macedonian language

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, etc. Other programs are geared tords other Eastern European languages including, but not limited to Romanian

Romanian language

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. Spanish Language programming also airs in addition to English language Religious programming, at times geared towards English speaking Europeans.

Automated Adult Contemporary music (in English) fills the rest of the airtime.