KJZZ (FM)
| City of license | Phoenix, Arizona |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 91.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Format | NPR, Jazz, Blues |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 490 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 40095 |
| Callsign meaning | JaZZ |
| Affiliations | NPR, PRI |
| Owner | Rio Salado College (Maricopa County Community College District) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.kjzz.org |
KJZZ (91.5 FM, "K Jazz") is a National Public Radio member station in Phoenix, Arizona. Owned by Rio Salado College, it operates from studios on the college's campus in Tempe. KJZZ serves the Valley of the Sun with NPR programming from 3:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays, 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sundays. At all other times a variety of music programs are available playing jazz and blues. KJZZ is sister station to the area's main classical music station, KBAQ.
KJZZ signed on in the early 1970s as KMCR. Rio Salado bought the station in 1985 and changed the calls to KJZZ.
KJZZ produces several programs, including a weekly call-in talk show, Here and Now, hosted by Phoenix journalist Steve Goldstein which includes calls and e-mails from listeners.
In the Spring of 2008, the station produced The Aaron Brown Show, a pilot program hosted by former CNN news anchor Aaron Brown.
Also heard on KJZZ (as well as several other public radio stations in the southwest and Texas) are unique news stories under its program entitled Fronteras: The Changing America Desk.[1] This entity is one part of an initiative of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that created seven Local Journalism Centers (LJCs) to pool the resources of public media stations across the country in FY2009.[2] These LJCs hire their own reporters and editors and concentrate on a specific area. Fronteras represents the Southwest LJC and focuses primarily on cultural and demographic shifts in the southwest U.S. and stories began airing in 2010. Other topics heard on Fronteras include immigration and the U.S./Mexico border. According to the CPB, Fronteras' Southwest LJC and the remaining LJCs were expected to become self-sufficient after 2 years.[3]
HD Radio
KJZZ's HD Radio signal is multiplexed. The main signal is a simulcast of KJZZ's NPR and jazz programming. The second channel features classic jazz during the day, and joins the simulcast of KJZZ's jazz programming from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., MST.[4]
Translators
| Call sign | Frequency (MHz) |
City of license | ERP W |
Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K242AC | 96.3 FM | Bagdad, Arizona | 46 | D | FCC |
| K208AB | 89.5 FM | Flagstaff, Arizona | 9 | D | FCC |
| K295AL | 106.9 FM | Little Acres, Arizona | 15 | D | FCC |
| K211AA | 90.1 FM | Prescott, Arizona | 146 | D | FCC |
| K219DZ | 91.7 FM | Rio Verde, Arizona | 10 | D | FCC |
| K255AC | 98.9 FM | Tucson, Arizona | 10 | D | FCC |
| K221EK | 92.1 FM | Silver City, New Mexico | 10 | D | FCC |
References
External links
- KJZZ's official home page includes news, program information, and webcasts
- KJZZ's Program Schedule
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KJZZ
- Radio-Locator information on KJZZ
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KJZZ
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
