KZEY (690 AM) was an American

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, United States. The station, established in 1958, was owned by Community Broadcast Group, Inc. When the station fell silent in January 2007, KZEY had been broadcasting an

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music format to the greater

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. In 2005, the station encountered financial and technical difficulties resulting in the station's license being temporarily pulled and the KZEY

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deleted from the database maintained by the

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(FCC) on October 19, 2005. Four months after the station was deleted from the database, the station was re-licensed and reassigned the KZEY call sign by the FCC on February 2, 2006. In June 2006, the station's owner suffered a stroke and the station went

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for good in January 2007. In a February 2011 letter to the FCC, the owner indicated that he was surrendering the station's broadcast license as well as the licenses for ten

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s in similar dire circumstances. On May 2, 2011, the station's license was cancelled and the KZEY call sign assignment was deleted permanently from the FCC database.

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