 During the 1980s and early 1990s, WJZZ was one of the nation's most successful commercial jazz outlets and a reporter to "Radio and Records" magazine's Jazz and later NAC/Contemporary Jazz airplay panels.By this time, WJZZ and WCHB were owned by Bell Broadcasting.WJZZ was 1 out of the 4 radio stations in the Barden, MI area (along with WMXD, WMUZ and WRIF) that was used on Barden Cablevision's character generated line-up throughout the 1980s and 1990s (which would later become Comcast).