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KZZO (100.5 FM) is a hot adult contemporary radio station in Sacramento, California, known as Now 100 FM. KZZO's transmitter is located in Folsom. It is owned by CBS Radio with studios on Commerce Circle in Sacramento near the American River and the North Sacramento Freeway (Route 160). Co-owned CBS stations in Sacramento are Adult Contemporary 96.1 KYMX, Rhythmic contemporary 102.5 KSFM, country music 105.1 KNCI, sports talk 1140 KHTK, CBS affiliate KOVR TV, and CW affiliate KMAX-TV. KZZO operates at 115,000 watts effective radiated power as one of the most powerful FM radio stations in Northern California, while most FM stations in the region operate at 50,000 watts. However, its tower is relatively short, at 330 feet, while most other FM stations in the area have 500 foot towers. So KZZO's coverage area is a bit more extensive than its competitors, audible north toward Yuba City and south toward Stockton. ==History== The station signed on in October 1958 as KEBR, a religious station owned by Family Radio, an Oakland based organization. After a lengthy period broadcasting religious music and bible talks from radio evangelist Harold Camping, Family Radio sold 100.5 to commercial owners in 1988, with Family Radio eventually relocating to AM 1210 KEBR Rocklin, (now South Asian station KRPU), and FM 88.1, which now carries the KEBR (FM) call letters. The new owners installed a smooth jazz format, re-branded it as ''The Point'' and changed its call letters to KQPT. It would last as ''The Point'' for seven years and a couple of ownership changes. Brown Broadcasting changed the branding to "The Zone" in 1995 and the format to a wide ranging AAA mix it promoted as "bands you've never heard of." 〔(Alex Cosper's Sacramento Radio History )〕 Brown sold KQPT, KXOA (AM) and KXOA-FM (K-108) to (American Radio Systems ) in 1996, and a change in call letters to KZZO happened in 1997. There was a three-way battle for rock listeners during this period between KWOD, KRXQ (93 Rock) and "The Zone." However, after a year as a Triple-A, KZZO began evolving to Hot Adult Contemporary, later moving to Modern Adult Contemporary (after the shift of KGBY to Hot Adult Contemporary in 2007) where it would remain in that direction until June 22, 2010, when it shifted to a broader Adult Top 40 direction and adopted the "Now" approach. They are the first Adult Top 40/Hot AC station in the CBS Radio stable to use the slogan, as "Now" is more associated with being a Rhythmic pop-leaning Top 40/CHR brand. But unlike other "Now" stations, KZZO, due being an Adult Top 40 and having Rhythmic Top 40 KSFM as a sister station, will not play any Hip-Hop or Rap songs, although it does share some artists (i.e. Kesha and Lady Gaga) at both stations. In addition, KZZO has vowed not to play any gold or recurrent songs from the 80s or 90s, a message aimed directly at rival KGBY, whose Adult Top 40 direction features that approach. The second hot AC station with the Now branding owned by CBS Radio is WPBZ in West Palm Beach, Florida (this station would later flip to Sports, as WAXY-FM was sold by CBS and relocated into the Miami market). KZZO is currently part of the (CBS Radio Sacramento cluster ). The station's current website is ( now100fm.com ). By December 2011, KZZO became the only hot adult contemporary radio station in Sacramento due to Clear Channel Communications changing KGBY from hot adult contemporary to news-talk as KFBK-FM, simulcasting KFBK, but its playlist largely resembles a contemporary hit radio station despite higher-charting songs getting more than 100 plays per week, while it continues to report as hot adult contemporary per Mediabase & Nielsen BDS. However, the following week, KZZO no longer became Sacramento's only hot AC after the flip of KBZC from rhythmic adult contemporary to hot adult contemporary on December 9. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KZZO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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