KYFJ
| City | New Iberia, Louisiana |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Lafayette metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 93.7 MHz |
| First air date | June 1992 (as KKZN) |
| Format | Religious |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 296 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 8167 |
| Former callsigns | KKZN (1991-11/1992) KDEA (11/1992-2/1997) KTBT (2/1997-10/1998) KOOJ (10/1998-4/2005) KRDJ (4/2005-8/2014) |
| Owner |
Bible Broadcasting Network (Bible Broadcasting Network, Incorporated) |
| Website | bbnradio.org |
KYFJ is a radio station serving the Lafayette, Louisiana area. The station broadcasts at 93.7 MHz with 100 kW and is licensed to New Iberia, Louisiana. KYFJ is currently under ownership of Bible Broadcasting Network. It was previously held by The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, who picked up this station after its previous owner Citadel Broadcasting swapped the station for KNEK-FM.
KRDJ signed on in June 1992 as KKZN, an affiliate of the Z-Rock satellite network. KKZN was a Cavaness Broadcasting station, co-owned with what was then KVOL and KVOL-FM as the first FM duopoly in the Lafayette market; Z-Rock 93.7 was effectively the replacement of the rock format previously heard on KVOL-FM before that station flipped to Urban AC in July 1992. At the time, KKZN was broadcasting with 34 kilowatts from a tower located off Highway 90 in southern Iberia Parish between the towns of Jeanerette and Glencoe.
The rock format lasted only until November, when KKZN became KDEA, picking up the calls dropped in favor of KXKC by another New Iberia station earlier in the year. KDEA switched to hot adult contemporary as KD93.7 shortly afterward.
In 1997, Cavaness Broadcasting sold KDEA, along with KVOL and KVOL-FM, to Baton Rouge-based Powell Broadcasting, who also owned KSMB. Also around that time, they applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to upgrade from 34 kilowatts to a full 100 kilowatts and relocate to a tower south of Maringouin, allowing the station to serve both the Lafayette and Baton Rouge radio markets. To prepare for the upgrade, the formats of KDEA and KVOL-FM were swapped in late January, with KVOL-FM becoming adult contemporary as "Star 105.9" and KDEA picking up the urban AC format. Once the signal upgrade was completed in February, KDEA's shifted its focus exclusively toward the Baton Rouge market and shifted to mainstream urban as "93-7 the Beat" KTBT, eventually shifting back to urban AC as "93-7 Jamz."
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