KMZT

KMZT may refer to:

KMZT (AM)

KMZT (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to Beverly Hills, California, and broadcasting to the Los Angeles Metro area from a transmitter in Mission Hills. KMZT airs classical music.

KMZT is not licensed to broadcast a HD signal on 1260 AM; however, an HD channel simulcasting KMZT is broadcast on KKGO HD2.

Station history

KGIL began broadcasting October 19, 1947, on 1260 kHz with 1 KW power full-time. The station was licensed to San Fernando Valley Broadcasting Company, with studios and executive offices at 2929 Van Nuys Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, California.

At that time, it aired a big band music format. KGIL aired other formats including talk until 1993.

From 1993 to 1995, it had the call letters KJQI, playing adult standards music. In 1995, it became K-NEWS, simulcasting with XESURF (then with call letters XETIN) and now-defunct KNNZ in Costa Mesa. K-NEWS was an all-news radio service with content from the Associated Press or local announcers Peter Arbogast, Jim Roope, and H.K. Malay. K-NEWS was also the home of the Los Angeles Clippers and had an unprecedented 8 traffic reports an hour, causing competitors KNX and KFWB to add more traffic reports to its lineup. In late 1996, the station reverted to the KGIL call letters and hosted an all-Beatles lineup for seven months. The station then went All Broadway Show tunes in August 1997 to Sometime in 1998. The station then switched to Music of Your Life before going to a mainstream jazz format, with the call letters KJAZ, in 2000. Then, in 2002, it took on the call letters KSUR and began broadcasting an adult standards format, changing its call letters to KKGO in 2005. From August 2004 to June 2005 the station played an oldies format playing music from the 1950s and 1960s.