KREV (FM)
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| City | Alameda, California |
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| Broadcast area | San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, California |
| Branding | 92.7 REV The Revolution |
| Slogan | San Francisco's Hit Music Channel |
| Frequency | 92.7 MHz |
| First air date | August 1, 1959 (as KJAZ) |
| Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
| ERP | 3,600 watts |
| HAAT | 128 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 36029 |
| Callsign meaning | K REVolution |
| Former callsigns | KJAZ (1959-1994) KJAZ-FM (1994-1995) KZSF (1995-1998) KZSF-FM (1998-1999) KXJO (1999-2002) KPTI (2002-2004) KBTB (5/2004-10/2004) KNGY (2004-2009) |
| Owner | Royce International |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 927rev.com |
KREV (92.7 FM), branded as 92.7 REV The Revolution, is a Top 40 (CHR) music formatted radio station that serves the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Its city of license is Alameda, California, and it is owned by Royce International. The station's studios are located in the Visitacion Valley district of San Francisco, and the transmitter is located on top of Bellaire Tower in the city's Russian Hill neighborhood.
As KJAZ from August 1, 1959, to July 31, 1994, the station aired a jazz format. Founded by Pat Henry, KJAZ prided itself on broadcasting only jazz music, and a 1965 station brochure proclaimed KJAZ "northern California's first and only fulltime jazz station".
In 1994, KJAZ was sold after owner Ron Cowan, in a financial crisis, deemed the station unprofitable. Since the demise of the jazz format, some KJAZ programmers and announcers have made their way to KCSM.
Since then, the KJAZ call sign has been used by various FM radio stations around the country, and is currently the call sign for a silent station in Point Comfort, Texas owned by Fort Bend Broadcasting of Austin, Texas.
Though listeners mounted a fundraising effort to keep KJAZ on the air (by some reports raising $1.5 million), the station was sold in 1994, and on July 31, KJAZ was converted to a Spanish music station, the first of many different format changes the station would go through in the mid-late 1990s. From 1999 to 2002, they simulcasted the rock format of KSJO in San Jose as KXJO.
On May 26, 2002, the 92.7 frequency's history as a dance music outlet would begin as KPTI, "92.7 PARTY," which was launched under former owner Spanish Broadcasting System. Nearly two years later, on March 17, 2004, it was sold to new owners, who flipped the format to mainstream urban as KBTB, "Power 92.7, The Beat of the Bay." Power 92.7 debuted on April 15, 2004 with 48 straight hours of songs by Tupac Shakur, a rapper from Oakland. After it failed to attract an audience, along with controversy from rival KMEL (which made headlines in the press) and on top of that, seeing the sale falling apart, the station was put up for sale again.
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