What is "wkrz"

WKRZ, "98.5 KRZ", is a radio station licensed to Freeland, Pennsylvania serving the Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre/ Hazleton radio market at 98.5 MHz FM. The station radio format is Top 40 which it has broadcast in the market since 1980. For three decades, the station has used "KRZ", a shortened form of its call letters, for its on air promotion. The present owners of WKRZ, Entercom Communications, received FCC approval in 2003 to move WAMT (103.1 MHz FM, now WILK-FM) from Freeland to Avoca. As a condition of the move, Entercom was required to change the city of license of WKRZ from Wilkes-Barre to Freeland due to FCC concerns about the "loss of local service" to Freeland because of the WAMT move. In practice, the only thing that changed was the legal ID.

WKRZ is broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. The main program is simulcast on 98.5 HD-1 in digital. Comedy programming can be heard on 98.5 HD-2 on the secondary digital multicasting stream.

WKRZ also airs On Air With Ryan Seacrest on weekdays.