| City of license | Weed, California |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Weed/Mount Shasta, California |
| Slogan | Sizzling Classic Rock |
| Frequency | 102.3 MHz |
| Translator(s) | 99.3 K257CA (Mount Shasta) 101.7 K269AT (Grenada) |
| First air date | 1983 (as KSQU-FM) |
| Format | Classic rock |
| ERP | 15,500 watts |
| HAAT | 592 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 68152 |
| Callsign meaning | K SIZzling Classic Rock |
| Former callsigns | KSQU (1981-1984) KWHO (1984-2003) KNTK (2003-2008) KCWH (2008-2012) |
| Owner | Buffalo Broadcasting |
KSIZ (102.3 FM) is a radio station based in Mount Shasta, California (city of license is Weed, California), owned by Buffalo Broadcasting, which also owns KSYC-FM in Yreka. KSIZ broadcasts to the Siskiyou County and Redding markets, and has one of the largest geographical reaches of any FM station Northern California. The program director/on-air talent is Joe Kesterson, who also hosts the evening show on KSYC show. Kesterson replaces Rick Martin, former station owner/general manager/on-air talent, who had been on the air in the market for 20 straight years, longer than any other local personality.
The station hit the air once again under the classic rock format in January 2013 with the slogan "Sizzlin' Classic Rock".
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History [link]
The station first signed on the air as KSQU-FM back in 1983 in Weed. It was later purchased in 1984 by Tom Erickson of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, moved to Mount Shasta and renamed KWHO-FM. The station was one of two country music radio stations in Siskiyou County and the first to broadcast country music on the FM band in the market.
KWHO was sold to Huth Broadcasting in 1997 and the format was changed to adult contemporary. Then the station was flipped to Four Rivers Broadcasting, which already owned KSYC-AM, KSYC-FM, KMJC, and KMJC-FM. The format remained until 2003 when the news talk format moved from the AM stations to KWHO. The call letters were changed to KNTK in 2004.
On August 1, 2008, KNTK - along with sister station KSYC-FM in Yreka - was sold to Jamison-Wolf Broadcasting. The new owners changed the station's format from news/talk to classic hits. In December 2008, the call letters were again changed, this time to KCWH.
On August 1, 2009 Jamison-Wolf entered into an LMA (Local Marketing Agreement) with TRC Enterprises, LLC, a company owned and operated by long-time morning show host and Program Director Rick Martin. The LMA is a precursor to an outright purchase of the station, and is pending FCC approval. The sale became official in late August 2009.[1]
Martin sold the station to Buffalo Broadcasting, owned by Mark and Cindy Baird, and on July 24, 2012, KCWH went silent (off the air). The station has since returned to the air as a classic rock station under the new call letters KSIZ at the same frequencies with Joe Kesterson as lead deejay.
Translators [link]
KSIZ's signal is transmitted up and down the Interstate 5 corridor from Weed to Orland at 102.3 (currently off-air due to transmitter problems), to Yreka at 101.7 (on-air), and locally in Mount Shasta at 99.3 (on-air), all on the FM band.
| Call sign | MHz | City of license | Power (W) |
Class |
Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K257CA | 99.3 | Mount Shasta, California | 52 | D | FCC |
| K269AT | 101.7 | Grenada, California | 7 | D | FCC |
Local sports [link]
KSIZ was a longtime affiliate of the Oakland A's, and was the flagship station for Mount Shasta High School football with Rick Martin and Al Blackmore. It was also the flagship station for Mount Shasta High School basketball with Martin calling the action on a solo basis. They occasionally included Weed and Dunsmuir High School, and College of the Siskiyous games. The station was also home to Oregon State Beavers football games, as well as Sunday Night and Monday Night NFL Football games broadcast on Westwood One. However, due to the latest ownership change, it is uncertain whether or not local sports will return to the station.
Past program directors [link]
- Tom Erickson (1980s-1997 as KWHO)
- Mike Summers (1997-1999 as KWHO) (now of KDRV-TV in Medford, Oregon and owner of Action Video Entertainment)
- Cal Hunter/Tom Huth (1997-2002 as KWHO) (now of KBLF-AM in Red Bluff, California)
- Rick Martin (2002-2008 as KNTK)
- Lee Jamison (2008-2009 as KCWH)
- Rick Martin (2009–2012 as KCWH)
- Joe Kesterson (2012-present)
Previous Logo [link]
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(Station's logo under previous KCWH calls)
References [link]
- ^ Radio station is Martin's now, Steve Gerace, Mount Shasta News, August 26, 2009
External links [link]
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KSIZ
- Radio-Locator information on KSIZ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KSIZ
- Query the FCC's FM station database for K257CA
- Radio-Locator information on K257CA
- Query the FCC's FM station database for K269AT
- Radio-Locator information on K269AT
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