KAZG
| City | Scottsdale, Arizona |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Phoenix metropolitan area |
| Branding | Oldies 92.7 |
| Slogan | The Best Music from the 50s and 60s |
| Frequency | 1440 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 92.7 K224CJ Phoenix |
| Repeater(s) | 93.3-2 KDKB-HD2 |
| First air date | 1956 (as KPOK) |
| Format | Oldies |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 52 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 11272 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°28′43.00″N 111°56′24.00″W / 33.4786111°N 111.9400000°W |
| Callsign meaning | K AriZona Gold (previous branding) |
| Former callsigns | KPOK (1956-1964) KDOT (1964-1977) KSGR (1977-1978) KOPA (1978-1980) KXAM (1980-1982) KOPA (1982-1996) KSLX (1996-2001) |
| Owner |
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. (Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KSLX-FM, KDKB, KDUS, KUPD |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | oldies927az.com |
KAZG (1440 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, the station covers the Phoenix metropolitan area. KAZG is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. and licensed to Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC. Its studios are located in North Phoenix and its transmitter is in Scottsdale.
KAZG signed on in 1956 as KPOK ("Cowpoke") in Scottsdale. Like many stations in the Phoenix area at the time, it originally ran a country-music format.
For many years AM 1440 was known as KDOT, and aired an adult-standards format until 1977, when it changed calls to KSGR ("K-Sugar") to fit an oldies format. This lasted until 1978 when it became KOPA. Beginning in the 1960s, it simulcasted on FM 100.7, which continued under various formats and call letters until the mid-1990s.
The station was assigned the call letters KOPA on April 24, 1978. On September 1, 1980, the station changed its call sign to KXAM, and adopted an urban format. On March 25, 1982 they reverted to KOPA, then on February 19, 1996 to KSLX, and on April 1, 2001 to the current KAZG. For about a year in the mid-1990s, they ran CNN Headline News.
KAZG currently programs an automated format of oldies from the 1950s and 1960s, taken via RCS system feed. Features include "14 in a row" song sweeps without commercials, and usage of the branding slogan "Arizona Gold".
In 2009, two Phoenix-based talk shows from the defunct radio station KXAM made the move to KAZG: the food-themed "Culinary Confessions with Kim and Don" (11am-1pm, weekdays), and sports-talk show "The Positive Side, Sports and Entertainment" that airs from 7-10AM Monday-Friday. "Culinary Confessions" was simulcast on KXAM and KAZG from April 10, 2009 through KXAM's final day of broadcasting on April 15, 2009.
KAZG is popularly referred to as "The Lumberyard" or "Lumberyard 1440" due to the location of its transmitter, directly behind an actual lumber yard at the corner of 64th Street and Thomas Road in south Scottsdale. From this intersection, the transmitter building is accessible via a dirt path bordering the eastern side of the Salt River Project's Crosscut Canal.
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