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WWOZ is the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Station, broadcasting live from the famed New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival annually. Our governance board is appointed by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation. We are a listener-support

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WWOZ was founded by a group of local music lovers led by brothers Jerry and Walter Brock. The original antenna hung from a telephone pole at the levee near the Huey P. Long Bridge. At night Jerry and Walter would record their programs on cassette, and then, the next day, run them up river where they’d plug the tape recorder directly into the transmitter. It was not long before WWOZ moved upstairs at Tipitina’s, where the beer was stored. Apocrypha has it that someone punched a hole in the floor of the ‘OZ “studio” and, whenever the station elected to air a live music performance, they’d just lower the microphone down the hole and broadcast whoever happened to be on stage below! In 1984 WWOZ moved to Armstrong Park where it broadcast from a 3-room building adjacent to Perseverance Hall. After the Great Flood caused by the breach of the federal levees during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, WWOZ was forced to relocate to the historic French Quarter.

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