KEZN

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KEZN
City of license Palm Desert, California
Broadcast area Palm Springs, California
Branding EZ 103.1
Frequency 103.1 MHz
Format Soft AC
ERP 1,900 watts
HAAT 180 meters
Class A
Owner CBS Radio
Website www.ez103.com

KEZN-FM, also known as EZ-103, is a 1.9 kw Class A soft rock radio station serving the Palm Springs, California, USA market at 103.1 MHz. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Radio and is that company's smallest station in terms of market size.

The station was founded in 1971 by broadcast engineer Paul Posen under his company, Classic Broadcasting. Studios were originally based in Indio and broadcast a classical music format, hence the company name.

By 1977, the studios were moved to a converted house in Palm Desert where they remain to this day. Posen sold his interest in the station in 1995 to a firm that would later be absorbed by CBS. KEZN was operated under the CBS Radio banner for several years afterward, switching later to Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting banner after absorbing CBS. The station has since reverted back to the CBS Radio banner since the corporate dismantling of Infinity Broadcasting by its parent company.

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