KLJR-FM (96.7 FM "La Mejor") is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

that is

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Santa Paula, California Santa Paula (Spanish for " St. Paula") is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Situated amid the orchards of the Santa Clara River Valley, the city advertises itself to tourists as the "Citrus Capital of the World". Santa Pau ...

and broadcasts to the

Oxnard Oxnard () is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. On California's South Coast, it is the most populous city in Ventura County and the 22nd-most-populous city in California. Incorporated in 1903, Oxnard lies approximately west ...

– Ventura

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. The station is owned by

Radio Lazer Lazer Broadcasting Corp. (commonly known as Radio Lazer) is an American radio broadcasting company based in Oxnard, California. The company owns several dozen radio stations in California and a television station in Sacramento, KSTV-LD. Lazer Bro ...

and airs a

regional Mexican Regional Mexican is a Latin music radio format encompassing the musical genres from the different parts of rural Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Genres include banda, country en español, Duranguense, grupero, mariachi, New Mexico ...

music format.

History

Early years

The station went on the air as KAAP-FM in 1976 with an

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

format. In 1982 it became

album rock Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the 1970s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock. Album-orient ...

outlet KKBZ-FM ("The Buzz") before flipping to

soft rock Soft rock is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. S ...

four years later as KIEZ. After being sold in 1989, KIEZ became KXPT ("The Point"), switching to smooth jazz. On August 10, 1990, KXPT changed its call letters to KXBS and adopted an oldies format called "The Bus 96.7". In 1995, the station began airing a short-lived

alternative rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...

format. In April 1997, KXBS flipped to Spanish adult contemporary.

Radio Lazer era (1997–present)

In November 1997, Lazer Broadcasting purchased KXBS for $1 million, retaining the Spanish AC format. The station's callsign changed to KCZN on September 18, 1998 to match the new "Corazon" branding. KCZN adopted the current call letters,

format, and slogan in 2004, switching to KLJR-FM on September 2. KLJR-FM has one

booster station A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...

, KLJR-FM1 in Ventura, also broadcasting on a frequency of 96.7

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References

External links

FCC History Cards for KLJR-FM
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