KRZZ

KRZZ
City	San Francisco, California
Broadcast area	San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, California
Frequency	93.3 MHz
Branding	93.3 La Raza
Slogan	Musica de Calidad
Programming
Format	Regional Mexican
Affiliations	LaMusica
Ownership
Owner	Spanish Broadcasting System ; (KRZZ Licensing, LLC)
History
First air date	January 1959 (as KYA-FM)
Former call signs	KYA-FM (1959-1980, 1982-1994); KLHT (1980-1982); KYCY (1994-1997); KYCY-FM (1997-2002); KKWV (2002-2003); KBAY (2003-2004); KBAA (9/2004-11/2004)
Technical information
Facility ID	1092
Class	B
ERP	6,000 watts
HAAT	415 meters (1,362 ft)
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	yosoyraza.lamusica.com

KRZZ is a commercial radio station located in San Francisco, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area on 93.3 FM. KRZZ airs a regional Mexican music format branded as "La Raza". The station's studios are located in San Jose just north of downtown, and the transmitter is located in the San Bruno Mountains.

History

KRZZ has adopted many programming formats since sign on in 1959 as KYA-FM. The station carried a Top 40 format for many years, either in conjunction with, or separate from KYA. In December 1979, both stations flipped to an easy album rock format titled "Easy Rock 93 FM". Within months, the FM station became KLHT ("K-Lite"), while KYA flipped to an oldies format. Two years later, the FM would regain its original call letters while flipping to an oldies format that lasted a decade.

On March 28, 1994, KYA flipped to high-energy country music as "Young Country 93.3" and later changed its call sign to KYCY.[1][2][3] The station would add the -FM suffix in 1997 when the station began simulcasting on 1550 AM, and would later rebrand as "Y93" on February 22, 1999.[4][5] On December 18, 2001, KYCY began stunting with Christmas music for a week, followed by simulcasts of other sister Infinity Broadcasting stations in San Francisco, and then a three-day loop of the song "It's a Small World".[6] On December 31, 2001, the station flipped to a hybrid Rhythmic AC/world music format as KKWV, "93.3 The Wave."[7] On September 2, 2003, at 6 a.m., the station joined in a simulcast with KBAY as "93.3 and 94.5 K-Bay".[8] In November 2004, the station broke from the simulcast and flipped to its current format.[9] The next year, the station was sold by Infinity Broadcasting (later part of CBS Radio, now part of Entercom) to the current Spanish Broadcasting System.

In March 2017, KRZZ began airing the morning program hosted by Terry "El Terrible" Cortez, Kristel Yañez and Johnny Orta at WLEY in Chicago. The program is also heard on KLAX-FM in Los Angeles.

gollark: Did you misuse SPUAMAI (Stochastic Polynomial Unicode-Aware Multicharacter Automatic Indentation)?

gollark: Also, your CPU probably has a thermal-noise hardware RNG.

gollark: I have a radio receiver stick which I could presumably just read out noise from for similar purposes.

gollark: GTech™ randomness is only a quintillion times costlier than normal randomness!

gollark: ...

References

"What's In a Name? Plenty, If You Own it", Billboard, 106 (16), p. 85, April 16, 1994
"KYA/SF Flips to Young Country" (PDF), Radio & Records (1037), pp. 3, 23, April 1, 1994
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1999/RR-1999-02-12.pdf
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1999/RR-1999-02-26.pdf
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2002/RR-2002-01-04.pdf
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2002/RR-2002-01-11.pdf
http://formatchange.com/93-3-the-wave-becomes-kbay/

External links

KRZZ Website
KRZZ in the FCC's FM station database
KRZZ on Radio-Locator
KRZZ in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

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[1] "What's In a Name? Plenty, If You Own it", Billboard, 106 (16), p. 85, April 16, 1994

[2] "KYA/SF Flips to Young Country" (PDF), Radio & Records (1037), pp. 3, 23, April 1, 1994

[4] ttp://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1999/RR-1999-02-12.pdf

[5] ttp://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1999/RR-1999-02-26.pdf

[6] ttp://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2002/RR-2002-01-04.pdf

[7] ttp://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2002/RR-2002-01-11.pdf

[8] ttp://formatchange.com/93-3-the-wave-becomes-kbay/

Spanish-language radio stations in the state of California
Stations	KAEH – Beaumont KAFY – Bakersfield KATD – Pittsburg KBAA – Grass Valley KBBF – Santa Rosa KBBU – Modesto KBHH – Kerman KBKY – Merced KBLA – Santa Monica KBLO – Corcoran KBRG – San Jose KBTW – Lenwood KBUA – San Fernando KBUE – Long Beach KBYN – Arnold KBYN – City of Angels KCAL – Redlands KCFA – Arnold KCHJ – Delano KCVR – Lodi KDBV – Salinas KEBN – Garden Grove KEPD – Ridgecrest KERU – Blythe KESQ – Indio KEXA – King City KEYQ – Fresno KEZY – San Bernardino KFSD – Escondido KFSG – Roseville KFSO-FM – Visalia KGED - Fresno KGEN – Tulare KGEN-FM – Hanford KGRB – Jackson KGST – Fresno KGZO – Shafter KHDC – Chualar KHPY – Moreno Valley KHSQ – Trinidad KIDI-FM – Lompoc KIQI – San Francisco KIQQ – Barstow KIQQ-FM – Newberry Springs KIQS – Willows KIST-FM – Carpinteria KIWI – Mcfarland KJDJ – San Luis Obispo KJOR – Windsor KLAX-FM – East Los Angeles KLBN – Fresno KLJR-FM – Santa Paula KLLE – North Fork KLLI – Los Angeles KLMG – Esparto KLMM – Morro Bay KLNV – San Diego KLOB – Thousand Palms KLOK-FM – Greenfield KLOQ-FM – Winton KLQV – San Diego KLTX – Long Beach KLUN – Paso Robles KLVE – Los Angeles KLYY – Riverside KMAK – Orange Cove KMBX – Soledad KMEN – Mendota KMIX – Tracy KMJV – Soledad KMLA – El Rio KMLM-FM - Grover Beach KMPG – Hollister KMPO – Modesto KMQA – East Porterville KMRO – Camarillo KMYX-FM – Arvin KNCR – Fortuna KNTO – Chowchilla KNTY - Shingle Springs KODV – Barstow KOND – Hanford KOXR – Oxnard KPRC-FM – Salinas KPSL-FM – Bakersfield KPST-FM – Coachella KQLB – Los Banos KRAY-FM – Salinas KRCD – Inglewood KRCV – West Covina KRCX-FM – Marysville KRDA – Clovis KRHM-LP – Bakersfield KRQK – Lompoc KRRS – Santa Rosa KSCA – Glendale KSDO – San Diego KSDT – Hemet KSEA – Greenfield KSEH – Brawley KSES-FM – Seaside KSFN - Piedmont KSJV – Fresno KSMY – Lompoc KSOL – San Francisco KSPA – Ontario KSPE – Santa Barbara KSQL – Santa Cruz KSRT – Cloverdale KSSC – Ventura KSSD – Fallbrook KSSE – Arcadia KTAP – Santa Maria KTGE – Salinas KTMZ – Pomona KTNQ – Los Angeles KTOR – Gerber KTQX – Bakersfield KTSE-FM – Patterson KUBO – Calexico KUFW – Kingsburg KUNA-FM – La Quinta KVMX – Olivehurst KVMX-FM – Placerville KVTR – Victorville KVUH – Laytonville KVVF – Santa Clara KVVZ – San Rafael KWAC – Bakersfield KWIZ – Santa Ana KWKW – Los Angeles KWRN – Apple Valley KWRU – Fresno KWST – El Centro KXLM – Oxnard KXOL-FM – Los Angeles KXRS – Hemet KXSB – Big Bear Lake KXSE – Davis KXSM – Chualar KXTS – Geyserville KXVV – Victorville KXXZ – Barstow KXZM – Felton KZER – Santa Barbara KZNB – Petaluma KZSF – San Jose KZSJ – San Martin KZSZ – Colusa
Defunct	KFVR – Crescent City KSKD – Livingston
See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other