KNGY

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KNGY
City of license	Alameda, California
Broadcast area	San Francisco Bay Area
Branding	"Energy 92.7"
Slogan	Energy 92.7, Pure Dance
First air date	1959
Frequency	92.7 (MHz)
Format	Dance Contemporary
ERP	3,600 watts
Class	A
Callsign meaning	ENerGY
Owner	Flying Bear Media
Website	www.energy927fm.com/

KNGY, also known as "Energy 92.7, Pure Dance", is a dance Top 40 station that serves the San Francisco area. Its city of license is Alameda, California, and it is owned by Flying Bear Media, a newly formed broadcasting company.

KNGY offers a current-based mix of dance music, with Top 40 and R&B remixes and disco and club classics from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s added into the presentation.

[edit] History

Historically, 92.7 was KJAZ, the first all-jazz radio station in the United States, founded in 1959 by jazz fan Pat Henry. The station retained the jazz format until 1994, when it was sold. For several years until 2002 it was a Clear Channel repeater signal covering San Francisco for San Jose rock station KSJO.

But on May 26, 2002, the 92.7 frequency's history as a dance music outlet would begin as KPTI, "92.7 PARTY," which was launched under former owner Spanish Broadcasting System. Nearly two years later, on March 17, 2004, it was sold to new owners, who flipped the format to R&B/hip-hop as KBTB, "Power 92.7, The Beat of the Bay." After it failed to attract an audience, along with controversy from rival KMEL (which made headlines in the press) and on top of that, seeing the sale falling apart, the station put on sale again. This time it was acquired by Flying Bear Media. CEO Joe Bayliss flipped the station back to dance music on October 2, 2004. The station kept "The Beat of the Bay" slogan, however, and still uses it in on-air liners, but later changed to "Pure Dance." Airplay on Energy 92.7 influences the playlists of radio stations and dance clubs nationally.

On July 17, 2005, KNGY moved its signal from its old tower on Russian Hill to the Sutro Tower, improving coverage in the South Bay, but later changed back to their old site due to signal issues. The effect is clear to South Bay listeners, who receive a split signal between KNGY and KTOM, a country-format station from the Santa Cruz area. Energy 92.7 can also be heard on Comcast Digital Cable throughout the Bay Area on digital cable channel 964 and live online at energy927fm.com.

KNGY is a reporter in Billboard Magazine's Dance Radio Airplay panel. Energy 92.7 is the most-listened-to dance/electronic radio station on the West Coast.

In December 2005 KLLC (Alice@97.3) San Francisco program director John Peake was hired as Energy's new program director, filling the vacancy left by Chris Shebel, who was Energy's first PD until July 2005. Shebel had programmed a Chicago dance station called "Energy 92.7&5" from January 2001 to January 2003.

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[edit] Energy DJs

Weekdays:

• 6a - 10a Fernando and Greg in the Morning
• 10a - 3p Sterling James
• 3p - 7p Joey V.
• 7p - 12m Bueller

Weekends:

• Danny Wright

Mixshow DJs:

• Trevor Simpson
• DJ Hope
• Dimitris Mykonos
• Ajax
• Eddy Santana
• Brook Marie
• Scotty Boy
• Adam Cova
• Mason Rothert

Guest DJs:

• Paul van Dyk (Radio Zendada)
• Marylou (Radio Zendada)
• The ScumFrog (Radio Zendada)
• Tiesto (Radio Zendada)
• Agent Adam (Massive Mix)

Former Mixshow DJs:

• DJ Matthew Baker (Massive Mix)
• DJ Nikita (Massive Mix)
• DJ Taj (Radio Zendada)
• DirtyHertz (Radio Zendada)
• The Rooz (Radio Zendada)

[edit] Station address

Energy 92-7 / KNGY-FM

400 Second Street

Suite 300

San Francisco, CA 94107

Request Line:

(866) 534-0927

Business Line:

(415) 356-1600

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KNGY