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KAZA (AM)

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365:(FCC) on January 23 that year, the station first broadcast on August 31, 1957, with call sign KPER and five watts of power. The FCC officially granted KPER its broadcast license on November 21, 1957, and KPER increased its transmitting power to 500 watts and was licensed as a daytime-only station. A member of the Keystone Broadcasting System, KPER also broadcast programming in Spanish and Portuguese. KPER increased its power to 1,000 watts on January 21, 1959. On May 2, 1963, KPER increased its power to 5,000 watts, a level continued to this day. 368:
On October 3, 1966, Bernard & Jobbins sold KPER to South Valley Broadcasters for $ 325,000. KPER became KAZA on July 15, 1967. By 1968, KAZA began broadcasting 85 hours of Spanish programming weekly, in contrast to seven hours of Portuguese.
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with Radio Fiesta and began broadcasting the Vietnamese language Viên Thao Radio network. Radio Fiesta ultimately sold KAZA to Intelli for nearly a million dollars in October 2014.
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KPER was founded by Don Bernard and Chuck Jobbins, co-owners of the Bernard & Jobbins Broadcasting Company. After being granted a
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music and talk, and is branded Viên Thao Radio. The station is owned by Tron Dinh Do, through licensee Intelli, LLC.
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South Valley Broadcasters sold KAZA to Radio Fiesta on March 29, 1973, for $ 522,500.
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In November 2010, Tron Dinh Do's Intelli LLC began operating KAZA on a
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Gilroy, California
Santa Clara Valley
Frequency
kHz
Vietnamese
Format
FCC
Facility ID
Class
Power
watts
36°57′49″N 121°29′22″W / 36.96361°N 121.48944°W / 36.96361; -121.48944
Public file
LMS
www.vienthao.com
kHz
commercial
AM
radio station
licensed
Gilroy, California
Santa Clara Valley
radio format
Vietnamese language
watts
1290 AM
non-directional
antenna
construction permit
Federal Communications Commission

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