where it is licensed to broadcast from. In November 2021 W270CS filed an STA with the FCC to go silent due to an unspecified technical issue. Because the FCC frowns upon a station going silent within its first year on the air, a letter of inquiry was sent to the owner of W270CS in February 2022. The FCC wanted evidence that W270CS was constructed with the intent of not being on the air only temporarily. The only proof of the translator being on the air since the license was issued in September was a 6 hour test in March 2022 from a temporary site. The FCC was not satisfied with the response by the owner and deleted the license in June 2022. Show hosts WWOZ's on-air show hosts are all volunteers and receive no compensation for the music that they play on the station, primarily playing from their personal collections of music. Most of them are deeply involved in the New Orleans music community and many are musicians. The station does have a small staff of paid personnel who handle the day-to-day operations of the station. Dramatized depictions of WWOZ Fictionalized versions of WWOZ were featured on the HBO series Treme and some episodes of NCIS: New Orleans. See also List of jazz radio stations in the United States List of community radio stations in the United States References External links WWOZ.org WWOZ MySpace page WWOZ Facebook page WWOZ Community on Livejournal WWOZ Photo Sharing Community on Flickr WWOZ Street Talk Multi-media blog on post-Katrina New Orleans subjects Community radio stations in the United States Jazz radio stations in the United States Blues radio stations Radio stations in New Orleans Radio stations established in 1980 Jazz in Louisiana 1980 establishments in Louisiana