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6 unusual facts about WENZ


Wenz

Latinxua Sin Wenz, a little-used romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.

WENZ

In 1975, Beasley Broadcast Group purchased the station from Multicom for $550,000, and changed the call letters to WDMT ("Dyno-mite", which happened to be a well known catch phrase on the popular sitcom Good Times).

Wenz

Peter Wenz (born 1945), an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Springfield

Fred Wenz aka Frederick Charles Wenz (born 1941), a baseball player

WENZ

Personalities during this period included Jim Bosh, Maria Farina, Liz Luke, John Landecker, Gina St. John, Cat Thomas, "Little Stevie Z" Steve Szabo, Rick Michaels, Cathy Cruise, Scott James, Mark Allen, Downtown Eddie Brown, and Sunny Joe, among others.

Owned by Radio One since 1999, the WENZ studios are located in Downtown Cleveland near Burke Lakefront Airport, while the station transmitter resides in Russell Township in Geauga County.


Lebanon College

In 1997, Donald Wenz was named the college's tenth president, and launched a "Campaign for Renewal" to purchase and renovate the old Woolworth's building in downtown Lebanon.


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