Original Call Letters: WTRR

Originally Licensed: May 20, 1947 

Original City of License: Sanford 

Original Frequency: 1400 

Origin of Call Letters: 

Original Power: 1,000 watts

Original Location: Celery Ave.

Original Format: Big Bands

History of WUEZ

Thanks to Bill Ray for this history of WUEZ.
"I was part of the team that was brought in to transform WWJZ to WUEZ in late 1984. The company that purchased the station was Emmet Broadcasting Co. of Florida. They had two other stations; in Leesburg, Virginia and Sanford, Maine. The owner was Grenville Emmet III and the station manager was Leigh Feldsteen. As I recall, WWJZ was doing a format called "carousel radio" where they played 15 minutes of country, 15 minutes of oldies, etc. every hour. The theory was if you didn't like the format, wait a few minutes. I seem to recall they sold the evenings to a guy that played all oldies and he did cruises with his listeners. We changed it to a Big Band/Standards format "WUEZ - Easy 14". That lasted about a year until the Emmetts decided to switch to a satellite music format. Jeremy House was sent down by the owners from Virginia to do news at WUEZ (Easy 14). He is still in broadcasting doing news on a religious/right leaning national broadcast company (whose name escapes me). Rick Padilla continued from the WWJZ format to the new format to do middays. I did mornings and commercial production. The owners were too cheap to buy carts for the music, every piece of music was put on 4 minute cassettes."

WUEZ Personalities

Al Burke-"Memory Lane Lunch", live from Fitzgerald's restaurant in Sanford from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays

Other Names In WUEZ History