KZSJ (1120

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) is a

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licensed to

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. It has a

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of music and talk in

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and

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, serving San Jose and the

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. The station is currently owned by

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. Programming is produced by Media, which used to air on a digital subchannel of

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. By day, KZSJ is powered at 5,000

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s non-directional. But

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is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A

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. So to avoid interference, KZSJ greatly reduces power at night to 150 watts. Programming is heard around the clock on 60 watt

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101.7 K269GX in San Jose.

History

Founded by Jeffrey Eustis, KZSJ had its first

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on January 18, 1991, with the

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KSJI.https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&pn=134970&facid=30906 The call letters changed to KZSJ on November 1, 1995. Later that month, KZSJ began broadcasting with a

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music format that played genres including

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and

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as part of the Z-Spanish Radio Network operated by

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entrepreneur Amador Bustos. Eustis finalized a sale of KZSJ for $450,000 in late January 1996 to Bustos. KZSJ was granted its first broadcasting license on February 21, 1996. In March 1999, KZSJ entered a

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(LMA) with Quê Hương Inc. and changed to a

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format. Programming on the Quê Hương radio network has included music, community events, and legal advice geared towards Vietnamese-American communities. By 2003, Bustos moved KZSJ to his

company. In July 2003, KZSJ broadcast public service announcements from the

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in Vietnamese expressing condolences to the family of a 25-year-old woman of Vietnamese descent who was fatally shot at her home by officers who thought the woman was carrying a weapon, which turned out to be a vegetable peeler. Beginning around 2014, KZSJ began broadcasting Korean-language programming on weekday mornings from Santa Clara-based Hanmi Radio. On February 1, 2018, Bustos Media obtained a construction permit for an

for KZSJ. K269GX broadcasts on 101.7 MHz. The FM translator was formally licensed on April 8, 2020.https://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=K269GX

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