KXTZ

Last updated
KXTZ
Broadcast area San Luis Obispo, California
Frequency 95.3 MHz
Branding95.3 The Beach
Programming
Format Adult Hits
Ownership
Owner
  • Martha Fahnoe
  • (Dimes Media Corporation)
KPYG, KWWV, KXDZ, KYNS
History
First air date
December 7, 1974 (as KPGA)
Former call signs
KPGA (1974–1990)
KWBR (1990–1998) [1]
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 30108
Class A
ERP 4,200 watts
HAAT 119 meters (390 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 35°09′24″N120°38′11″W / 35.15667°N 120.63639°W / 35.15667; -120.63639
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website 953thebeach.com

KXTZ (95.3 MHz, "95.3 The Beach") is a commercial FM radio station that is licensed to and serves San Luis Obispo, California. The station is owned by Dimes Media Corporation and broadcasts an Adult Hits music format with a focus on rock music from the 1980s. KXTZ is simulcast on sister station KXDZ in Templeton, California at 100.5 FM. [3]

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History

The station first signed on December 7, 1974 as KPGA and broadcast a middle of the road music format. [4] In 1975, original owner James M. Strain sold KPGA to Jack and Lois Gale for $70,000; the deal was approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on October 17. [5] In May 1978, owing to his declining health, Jack Gale sold his share in KPGA to his business partners Charles A. and Patricia Kent, doing business as KPGA Inc., for $6,000. [6] The Kents sold the adult contemporary music-formatted station to Five Cities Broadcasting Corporation for $500,000 in April 1985. [7] [8]

In September 1989, U.S. Media Company, who took possession of KPGA's license after Five Cities defaulted on a loan in 1986, [9] sold the station to James H. Elison for $1.05 million. [10] On March 2, 1990, KPGA changed its call letters to KWBR.

Elison's Maverick Broadcasting Company had reached an agreement to sell KWBR to American General Media for $500,000 in December 1996; [11] however, the deal fell through. Instead, the following March, the rock-formatted station was purchased for $350,000 by Winsome Media LLC, based in Cambria, California and owned by Walter D. Howard and Delbert E. Cleft, Jr. [12] On April 17, 1998, the station adopted the KXTZ call sign. [1]

In April 2002, Howard Broadcasting, Inc. sold KXTZ to Mapleton Communications as part of a three-station deal valued at $1.5 million. [13] The deal was approved by the FCC on May 23, 2002 and the transaction was consummated on July 19. [14]

In late 2014, Mapleton Communications sold KXTZ and sister stations KPYG, KWWV, KXDZ, and KYNS to Martha Fahnoe's Dimes Media Corporation for $1 million. The sale closed on January 15, 2015.

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  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KXTZ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
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