WWIZ (Lorain, Ohio)

WWIZ was a commercial radio station at 1380 AM that was licensed to Lorain, Ohio, United States, and broadcast from 1958 to 1967 during the daytime hours only. WWIZ's studios were located in downtown Lorain, and the transmitter was sited in adjacent Sheffield Township.

This station was initially built by Sanford A. Schafitz, who also built a radio station in the Youngstown, Ohio, area. Schafitz sold a minority interest in WWIZ to The Lorain Journal weeks after the station signed on. When the Journal announced a full acquisition of WWIZ in 1961, the ownership of WEOL—already in prolonged litigation against the newspaper—protested the move to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). After an FCC investigation revealed the first purchase was in actuality an ownership transfer the agency was not notified over, the FCC revoked WWIZ's license, as well as a television station in Youngstown that Schafitz also built. WWIZ shut down in 1967 following two years of appeals and one year of limbo as three groups sought a replacement license but failed to agree on an interim operation. One of those applicants signed on WLRO in December 1969; it continues on the air today as WDLW.