WSUZ-AM 800
Palatka

Original Call Letters: WWPF                                                  
Originally Licensed: 1947
Original Power: 1,000 watts daytime only                                   
Original City of  License: Palatka
Original Format: Adult Standards
Network Affiliation(s): Jones/AP News/ABC News
                                  Mutual Broadcasting System

Owner(s): 1947-
                1957-
                1962-Raymond P. McMillan
                1997-Janice J. Register
                1997-Wayne Bullock, Barbara Bullock, James Hester, Gail Hester
                1998-Radio Palatka, Inc. (Wayne and Barbara Bullock)
                2001-Reese Johnson

History Of  Call Letters and Formats: WWPF-1947-MOR
                                                          WSUZ-1957-Country Western                                        
                                                          WPLK-1990-Adult Standards  "Music Of Your Life"


WSUZ History
Thanks to Marc Tyll for this history of  WSUZ
WSUZ-AM 800 signed on the air on February 14, 1947 as WWPF with 1,000 watts daytime only. The original format was MOR. In 1957, WWPF-AM 800 moved frequency to its current dial position of 1260khz with 1,000 watts day and 500 watts night. On May 1, 1957 the 800khz frequency returned to the air under the call letters WSUZ.. The WSUZ tower was erected in East Palatka, just across the Saint Johns river at the corner of Highway 100 and old Saint Augustine Road. The original WSUZ format was C&W (known as Country and Western). After a series of station ownership changes, the call letters switched to WPLK (originally the WPLK call letters were assigned to WZOT-AM 1220 Rockmart, Georgia) on July 13Th, 1990, followed by a few MOR format adjustments until the format eventually became "Music of Your Life" which it continues to program throughout Palatka and Putnum County .

From Raymond Meyers: 
"The station (studio and transmitter) were located in East Palatka across the St. Johns River from Palatka off highway 17.  The station had acquired a model house from a bankrupted developer to house the station.  It was only a shell when they acquired it and moved it to the site of the tower.  The building was divided into four rooms with a hall down the middle ending in the bathroom.  To the left was the control room in the front and the transmitter room in the rear.  Transmitter was a one kilowatt Collins 20V.  To the right was the office in the front and a room being used to store stuff in the rear and also had an unused Schafer Automation system.  The station operated daytime on 800KHz with 1KW power non directional.  Mutual was the network. I was with Neal Owings that had been an account executive at WMIE in Miami, a station owned by E.D. Rivers.  Neal was in the process of buying the station and hired me as an advance man to go to the station.  When Owings entered into the closing with McMillan, Owings discovered that McMillan owed everybody in town to the tune of $50,000.  Owings bowed out of the closing and McMillan left town leaving the station in bankruptcy with George Duck the custodian.  About six months later, it was bought by two men". 

Names In WSUZ History
Bob Taylor (Ray Meyers)-1962
George Duck-Host of "Swap Shop"/Chief Engineer
Wayne ("The Deacon") Bullock-Owner
Billy Meetze
Susan Player

Other Programs In WSUZ History
Atlanta Braves Baseball

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