KSZR
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| City of license | Oro Valley, Arizona |
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| Broadcast area | Tucson, Arizona |
| Branding | BOB FM |
| Slogan | 70's, 80's, and Whatever! |
| Frequency | 97.5 MHz |
| Format | Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 6000 watts |
| Class | A |
| Owner | Citadel Broadcasting Corporation |
| Website | http://www.975bobfm.com/ |
KSZR is an adult contemporary / variety hits station serving Tucson, Arizona. It is licensed to broadcast from Oro Valley (a northern suburb of Tucson), but its reception is generally above average in most areas of Tucson. It is owned by Citadel Broadcasting Corporation and broadcasts at 97.5MHz with an ERP of 6kW. The station is focused on '70s and '80s rock and adult contemporary music. KSZR also sometimes plays current pop and modern rock music from artists like Five for Fighting, Uncle Kracker, Dido, and Hoobastank.
[edit] History
KSZR has gone through a variey of format changes in the past. Its first days on the air as KRKN were as a satellite based rock station.
In 1994 KRKN's call letters were changed to KCDI. As KCDI, the station was known as "CD Country" and played satellite delivered country music.
In 1996 KCDI became KSJM, and was known as Power 97.5. Power played a mix of hip hop, Spanish, and Top 40 music, (today's Rhythmic Top 40) and received high ratings, which competed with KOHT.[1]. Power was the first station in Tucson to play Rhythmic Top 40 over the FM airwaves.
After about two years, Citadel purchased the station from locally owned Slone Broadcasting. In 1998, Citadel turned Power 97.5 to a smooth jazz station. It was known as 97-5 The Oasis. The call letters became KOAZ.
Due to low ratings and a lack of interest, the smooth jazz format was scrapped for a country format known as "Cat Country" in 2001. This seemed to be a response to Clear Channel Communications' addition of a country station to Tucson, 92.9 Coyote Country (KOYT)(Today's KWMT-FM). Clear Channel's plans in creating Coyote Country were to take away enough listeners from long-dominant KIIM-FM 99.5 (who coincidently enough is also owned by Citadel), who has consistenetly been number one in the Tucson Arbitron ratings. Both Cat Country and Coyote Country failed.
The station then flipped to "Star 975" in 2002, a mix of pop, modern rock, and adult contemporary. The call letters became KSZR, and this format went on the longest. Ratings still failed to make a considerable difference, and Star 975 failed.
In November 2004, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation changed Star to BOB FM, an adult contemporary / variety hits format. KSZR is currently still BOB FM. But based on still lacking ratings, there are various rumors that it will change to a talk format which is more common on AM radio.
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[edit] External links
KUAT 87.7¹ | KTLU 88.1 | KFLT 88.5 | KAIC 88.9 | KUAZ 89.1 | KUAT 90.5 | KXCI 91.3 | KFMA 92.1 | KWMT 92.9 | KRQQ 93.7 | KMXZ 94.9 | KLPX 96.1 | KTZR 97.1 | KSZR 97.5 | KOHT 98.3 | KRDX 98.5 | KWXL 98.7 | KIIM 99.5 | KCMT 102.1 | KZPT 104.1 | KZLZ 105.3 | KGMG 106.3 | KHYT 107.5
¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (PBS)
