KAZN
Chinese-language radio station in Pasadena, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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KAZN (1300 AM) is a broadcast radio station in the United States. Licensed to Pasadena, California, KAZN serves the Greater Los Angeles area with a Mandarin Chinese language format.
Broadcast area | Greater Los Angeles |
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Frequency | 1300 kHz |
Branding | KAZN AM 1300 中文廣播電臺 |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Mandarin Chinese |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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KAHZ, KALI, KALI-FM, KBLA, KMRB | |
History | |
First air date | July 22, 1948; 75 years ago (1948-07-22) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | K-Asian |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 51426 |
Class | B |
Power | 23,000 watts day 4,200 watts night |
Repeater(s) | 1600 KAHZ (Pomona) 106.3 KALI-HD3 (Santa Ana) |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | www |
KAZN | |
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Traditional Chinese | KAZN AM 1300 中文廣播電臺 |
Simplified Chinese | KAZN AM 1300 中文广播电台 |
Hanyu Pinyin | KAZN AM 1300 zhōng wén guǎng bō diàn tái |
The station was founded in 1948 as KAGH. From 1950 to 1989, the station had call sign KWKW; it had a Spanish format for much of that time, including Spanish language broadcasts of Los Angeles Dodgers games. In 1988, the station was sold to NetworksAmerica; the following year, it converted to a multilingual Asian format in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese and became KAZN. Beginning in 1993, KAZN broadcast full time in Chinese.
Multicultural Broadcasting has owned KAZN since 1998. KAZN broadcasts talk and entertainment shows geared towards Mandarin speakers in the Los Angeles area. In the Pomona Valley, KAZN is simulcast on KAHZ.