WODZ-FM (96.1 MHz), branded as "The Eagle", is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to Rome, New York, United States, the station serves the Utica-Rome market. The station is owned by Townsquare Media as part of a cluster with news-talk station WIBX, classic rock-formatted WOUR, hot AC-formatted WLZW (Lite 98.7), and country-formatted WFRG (Big Frog 104).

WODZ-FM signed on in August 1968^[1] as WKAL-FM, owned by Maurer Broadcasting Corporation and operating at 95.9 FM. The station originally simulcast its AM sister station, WKAL (1450 AM).^[2] In 1977, WKAL-FM dropped the simulcast in favor of beautiful music.^[3]

Maurer Broadcasting Corporation sold WKAL AM-FM to Wooster Republican Publishing Company of Wooster, Ohio in 1980.^[4] In July 1984, WKAL-FM changed its call letters to WTCO,^[5] and became a country music station, "Top Country." The following year, the station, along with WKAL, was acquired by Howard Green and Donald Simmons, owner of WENY AM-TV and WLEZ in Elmira and WOND and WMGM FM-TV in Atlantic City, New Jersey.^[6] The new owners reverted the station's call letters to WKAL-FM on February 10, 1986,^[7] and implemented a soft adult contemporary format.^[8]

Target Communications bought WKAL AM-FM from Green and Simmons in 1987;^[9] soon after taking over, on February 1, 1988, the call sign was changed to WFRG-FM,^[10] and the station returned to country music, this time branded "96 Frog".^[11] The new format was simulcast on 1450 AM, which also took the WFRG call letters^[10] (save for a short time in the early 1990s when the AM station broke away to become oldies station WZLB);^[12] in addition, the station moved to its current frequency, 96.1.^[13] Target Communications eventually became Arrow Communications, which went into receivership in 1992,^[14] and then in November 1993, WFRG AM-FM was purchased by Forever Broadcasting, owners of WIBX and dominant market leader WLZW.^[1] Forever renamed the stations WODZ and launched an oldies format, with the country format and WFRG-FM call letters moving to 104.3 FM.^[15] The simulcast on AM 1450 continued until May 1999, when that frequency was sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network and became WYFY^[16] (it has since reclaimed the WKAL call sign). Forever sold its stations in the market, including WODZ-FM, to Regent Communications (the forerunner to Townsquare Media) several months later.^[17] On January 2, 2015, WODZ shifted to classic hits and rebranded from "Oldiez 96" to "96.1 The Eagle."^[18]