How we checked Z99 Grand Cayman
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 7 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Z99 says on its own About Us page that it "was Cayman's first commercial radio station and has deep roots in the community", that it "caters to a young demographic, playing the latest pop hits, complemented by an all-star line-up of the islands' top radio personalities", and that it "has played a key role in the local entertainment industry, pushing boundaries and introducing innovation". Its strapline is "Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks". The site carries a live grid, a seven-day playlist search, presenter biographies, its own podcast, island weather and local news.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Artists
Read live from its own Last Played and now-playing panels across three visits: Karol G "Bby Wow", Dave featuring Tems "Raindance", Ravyn Lenae "Love Me Not", Somber "Back To Being Friends", Shakria with Burna Boy "Dia Dia", Taylor Swift "I Knew It, I Knew You", Gracie Abrams "Hit The Wall" and Justin Timberlake "Sexy Back". Its own show copy adds "From Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber to Local Artists".
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Contact route
A contact form at /contact-us/, and on its own schedule pages a studio telephone number, a separate SMS number and an "Email the studio" link, so a listener can reach a presenter on air by phone or text. A Facebook account for the station is linked from the homepage.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.z99.ky/contact-us/
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Era
Part of the point: the station's own strapline puts throwbacks alongside current hits, and its playlist bore that out, running from Justin Timberlake "Sexy Back" to current releases in the same panel.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Music
Contemporary hit radio with a throwbacks lean, described by the station as today's biggest hits and hottest throwbacks and by its own show copy as Top 40.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Language
English; every page, show title, presenter biography and playlist entry is in English.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Kind
Live and presenter-led on weekdays with automated non-stop playout overnight, in the late morning and in the evening; Sundays run non-stop music all day, which matched what the live On Air Now panel showed while I read it, so the grid is generated rather than static.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
It publishes a seven-day playlist search that lets a listener pick any hour of the past week and see everything played in it, which is an unusual level of openness and makes its format checkable rather than claimed.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Where
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, on 99.9; the station's own on-air page describes a show running "every Friday from 10PM-12AM on Z99.9", and its owner Compass Media's own brands page says Compass provides programming "through Z99.9, Rooster 101.9, Rewind 94.9 and IslandFM 98.9, broadcasting on Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman"
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Compass Media (compassmedia.ky), the station's own owner, corroborated by the station's own page at https://www.z99.ky/on-air/ | 2026 |
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On air
Teri Lynne, credited as Z99 Morning Show Host, who says she has been the voice people wake up to on Z99 for four years; Marsha-lee Palmer, credited as Z99 Power Lunch Host and known on air as Marz, described in her own biography as "Cayman's First Lady" with seventeen years in radio; Choff, named on the PM Drive show; and Stick, named in the morning show title.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
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Programmes
From its own dated schedule for Monday 28 September 2026: Non-Stop Z99 from 12:00 AM, "Stick in the Morning - Sponsored By Logic - The Power of Today!" 6:00 AM, Non-Stop Z99 10:00 AM, "Power Lunch with DJ Marz - Sponsored By KFC" 11:00 AM including "the Power Lunch Mix at 12", "Z99 workday with Marz sponsored by Burger King" 1:00 PM, "PM Drive with Choff - Sponsored by Digicel" 3:00 PM, Non-Stop Z99 7:00 PM. It also publishes "ID Friday Takeover", and Sunday runs Non-Stop Z99 midnight to midnight.
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Z99 - Cayman's Biggest Hits & Hottest Throwbacks (z99.ky) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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en
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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English, checked on the station's own pages. Its About Us page, its dated schedule pages, its two presenter biographies, its podcast episode descriptions and its seven-day playlist search are all in English, and its site metadata names Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. I read the station's own text rather than assuming from the territory, and there is no second language anywhere on the site. |
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confirmed
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en → en | English, checked on the station's own pages. Its About Us page, its dated schedule pages, its two presenter biographies, its podcast episode descriptions and its seven-day playlist search are all in English, and its site metadata names Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. I read the station's own text rather than assuming from the territory, and there is no second language anywhere on the site. || the field already held this value |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The local-news headlines on the homepage | Each one ends "appeared first on Cayman Compass", so they are a newspaper's feed and not this station's own output.
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| The dial position 99.9 as a stated fact | It appears on the station's own site in a keywords meta tag rather than in any published sentence, so I record where it came from; the station brands itself Z99 in all visible text.
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| The name Tim, mentioned inside a presenter's own biography | It is not on the team page and is not credited to a show, so I did not turn it into a presenter entry.
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| Two inconsistencies in the station's own labelling | The Power Lunch host is titled "VJ Marz" on the team page and "DJ Marz" in the navigation and show title, and the same show appears both as "Power Lunch with DJ Marz" and as "Z99 workday with Marz", so the station's own pages do not agree on either.
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| The operator's sister stations GOLD Cayman, Rooster 101 and Island FM | They are linked in the footer of every page but belong to other rows.
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| Studio telephone and SMS numbers | Published, but I do not copy numbers into this file.
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| writing this as "99.9 FM" | neither the station nor its owner ever prints the letters FM next to the number, they write only "Z99.9", so the FM would be my addition; the station's own logo image carries no frequency at all, only "Z99 CAYMAN ISLANDS"
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Z99 Grand Cayman — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.z99.ky/