ABOUT US
WGZS 89.1 FM, the Fond du Lac community radio station, is a 50,000 watt, station, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. WGZS is one of four Native-owned or Native-managed stations to join the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (AMPERS). The Fond du Lac Band also owns WKLK AM & FM in Cloquet and WMOZ in Moose Lake.
WGZS plays a variety of music genres throughout the day as well as programming from Native Voice One, such as the award winning, national call-in radio program, Native America Calling with National Native News (weekdays;) Mainstream, hosted by Brent Maybee, is aired seven days a week. Additionally, WGZS airs Gaeno, Soul Deluxe, Indigefi; Julian Taylor’s Jukebox; Reclaimed; Indigenous in Music, with host Larry Knudsen, an enrolled member of the Ho Chunk Nation; Minnesota Native News and Native Lights through AMPERS; and Songs from Turtle Island.
On Sunday mornings, the station offers a line-up of diverse programs such as: American Indian and Alaska Native Living, Peace Talks Radio, Minnesota Matters, and Minnesota Military Radio.
WGZS accepts requests to air local public service announcements. If you have a community-based, not for profit event that you need announced (Please submit in MS Word format); please send by email to WGZS@fdlband.org. Required information includes the name of the event, purpose, when and where the event will be taking place, and your contact information for questions. We would appreciate two weeks’ notice when producing public service announcements.
OUR STAFF
Station Manager Dan Huculak, an enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Band, has been with WGZS since the station launched in 2011. Huculak’s career in broadcasting began in the 1980s when he did everything from filming video and producing cable television programs to announcing youth and high school football games in Michigan. He also worked at WKLK as a weekend announcer. Dan does the play-by-play for Fond du Lac Ogichidaag Girls and Boys basketball games.
Pat Puchalla, a broadcasting veteran in the greater Duluth radio market, became the WGZS Operations Manager on Dec., 2013. A native of Superior, WI, Pat has spent part of his career as a member of the B105 “Breakfast Flakes”, In addition to working in the Duluth/Cloquet area, Pat also worked as an announcer in Burlington, CO and in Bismarck and Fargo, ND.