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KAZA
Gilroy, California;
Broadcast area	Santa Clara Valley
Frequency	1290 kHz
Branding	Viên Thao
Programming
Language(s)	Vietnamese
Format	Music and talk
Ownership
Owner	Tron Dinh Do; (Intelli, LLC);
History
First air date	August 31, 1957; 67 years ago
Former call signs	KPER (1957–1967)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	54572
Class	D
Power	1,500 watts day; 19 watts night;
Transmitter coordinates	36°57′49″N 121°29′22″W / 36.96361°N 121.48944°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.vienthao.com

KAZA (1290 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Gilroy, California, and serving the Santa Clara Valley. It airs a radio format of Vietnamese language music and talk, and is branded Viên Thao Radio. The station is owned by Tron Dinh Do, through licensee Intelli, LLC.^[2]

By day, KAZA is powered at 1,500 watts. To reduce interference to other stations on 1290 AM, it reduces power at night to 19 watts. It uses a non-directional antenna at all times.^[3]

History

KPER was founded by Don Bernard and Chuck Jobbins, co-owners of the Bernard & Jobbins Broadcasting Company.^[4] After being granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on January 23 that year, the station first broadcast on August 31, 1957, with call sign KPER and five watts of power.^[5]^[6] The FCC officially granted KPER its broadcast license on November 21, 1957, and KPER increased its transmitting power to 500 watts and was licensed as a daytime-only station.^[6] A member of the Keystone Broadcasting System, KPER also broadcast programming in Spanish and Portuguese.^[4] KPER increased its power to 1,000 watts on January 21, 1959.^[7] On May 2, 1963, KPER increased its power to 5,000 watts.^[7]

On October 3, 1966, Bernard & Jobbins sold KPER to South Valley Broadcasters for $325,000.^[8]^[9] KPER became KAZA on July 15, 1967.^[6] By 1968, KAZA began broadcasting 85 hours of Spanish programming weekly, in contrast to seven hours of Portuguese.^[9]

South Valley Broadcasters sold KAZA to Radio Fiesta on March 29, 1973, for $522,500.^[10]

KAZA began carrying Spanish language broadcasts of Oakland Raiders games in 2002, the most recent season the Raiders made the Super Bowl.^[11] The broadcasts continued for the 2003 season,^[12] before they moved to KZSF in 2004.^[13]

In November 2010, Tron Dinh Do's Intelli LLC began operating KAZA on a local marketing agreement with Radio Fiesta and began broadcasting the Vietnamese language Viên Thao Radio network. Radio Fiesta ultimately sold KAZA to Intelli for $1,000,000 in October 2014.^[14]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for KAZA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ "KAZA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2010-07-18.
^ Radio-Locator.com/KAZA
^ ^a ^b 1958 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications. 1958. p. A-245. Retrieved April 12, 2020 – via AmericanRadioHistory.com.
^ "Station shorts" (PDF), Broadcasting-Telecasting, vol. 53, no. 8, p. 90, August 19, 1957, retrieved April 12, 2020 – via AmericanRadioHistory.com
^ ^a ^b ^c "KAZA". FCCdata.org. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "KAZA history cards". FCC. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
^ "Changing hands" (PDF), Broadcasting, vol. 71, no. 15, p. 50, October 10, 1966, retrieved April 12, 2020 – via AmericanRadioHistory.com
^ ^a ^b 1968 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications. 1968. p. B-16.
^ "Ownership changes" (PDF), Broadcasting, vol. 84, no. 16, p. 58, April 16, 1973, retrieved April 12, 2020 – via AmericanRadioHistory.com
^ Almond, Elliott (January 11, 2003). "Raiders go deep for Hispanic fans". San Jose Mercury News. p. 1A. Archived from the original on February 25, 2003. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
^ "Oakland Raiders". www.raidersenespanol.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ "Oakland Raiders". raidersenespanol.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ "Gilroy radio operator going from renter to owner". Radio and Television Business Report. October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2024.