Z Rocks

[Shack]

Ah! Anyone remember Z rocks on am. My father listened to it when I was a kid. I heard some very cool heavy metal when I was young on that station. Some group did a remdition of "White Christmas", it still rings in my head to this day. I wish I found out who that was.

I did not want to highjack the 93X thread!

I figure no one can remember this, because if they were listening to it, that would be the reason .

[LMITOUT]

Didn't Twisted Sister do a remake of White Christmas?

I've never heard of the program you speak of, but I try to catch House of Hair every weekend!

edit - Just Googled it and they did an entire Christmas album called "Twisted Christmas".

[crawdad]

I do, vaguely, from around the '86 - '87 time frame. I don't remember if we got it Duluth, or heard it on trips to the cities. Started listening to Metallica solid just thereafter when justice for all came out.

From Wiki:

1982 – 1998

Infinity in 1989 decided that with a new Spanish station on 97.9 that it should move 1480 WJIT (by then known as talk station 1480 Radio America) to an English format. So it shut down the Spanish format that spring and made the station WZRC. It took a heavy metal based satellite rock format and named the station "Z Rock". The call letters WZRC, were originally used in Chicago by the flagship station for the network, "Z-Rock 106.7 FM" from 1986-1987.

In December 1992 WZRC shortly switched to classic country through a satellite delivered service. But that February WZRC switched to a Korean brokered programming. Infinity continued to own the radio station until after its merger with CBS. At that point it owned 92.3 WXRK (now WFNY-FM), 101.1 WCBS-FM, 102.7 WNEW-FM, 660 WFAN, 880 WCBS, 1010 WINS, and 1480 WZRC. While it was not required to sell WZRC it opted to anyhow and sold the station in 1998 to Multicultural Media.

Multicultural kept the Korean format but after a few years, in 2002, switched to Chinese (to complement Multicultural's Sinocast network broadcast locally on 92.3 FM subcarrier).

[Shack]

This was there first station in MN area to play heavy metal (I.E. Metallica). I think it started in early eighties and went to the late eighties. My dad had the spot marked with a marker on an old dial radio in his garage. I forget what station number it was on am.

LIMTOUT,

Thanks for the direction. I just remember being in my father’s old one ton fifties truck in early eighties and it was a couple of days before Christmas. It was one of those things, as a kid that stuck in your mind. It sounded like a cross between Slipknot and Rob Zombie

[Shack]

Found IT,

Z-Rock" was a radio network based out of Dallas, Texas in the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s that played heavy metal and hard rock music. The format was one of ABC Radio Network's 24-hour satellite formats (formerly Satellite Music Network). Z-Rock debuted on Labor Day 1986 and is credited with being the first nationally focused radio station/network. In March 1990, Z Rock was nominated for Billboard Awards, the only fulltime hard rock/metal programming ever nominated in the history of Billboard magazine. After several changes in personnel and programming direction, the network was discontinued on December 31, 1996.

950 AM KZOW Minneapolis, MN (now KTNF)

This has to be it! I thought it ran much longer, but this has to be it.

LMITOUT,

I am buying that album right away. Thanks. It is it!