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KAZG not at full power and KAZM not on the air

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ted chittenden

As of 6:47AM MST on Saturday, March 28, 2026, KAZG has *not* gone to its day power though everyone else locally has. Looking at



I don't see any requested changes for the station's daytime signal with the FCC.

On another note, Sedona's KAZM (which I am barely able to receive during daylight hours from my residence) is currently off the air and has requested a STA.



Interestingly, both the station's website and stream are still up.
 
ted chittenden said:
As of 6:47AM MST on Saturday, March 28, 2026, KAZG has *not* gone to its day power though everyone else locally has. Looking at



I don't see any requested changes for the station's daytime signal with the FCC.

On another note, Sedona's KAZM (which I am barely able to receive during daylight hours from my residence) is currently off the air and has requested a STA.



Interestingly, both the station's website and stream are still up.
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Update: After posting this thread, I checked again at 6:55am MST and KAZG is now at its full daytime power. The information about Sedona's KAZM remains correct as reflected in its listing on the fccdata.org page. Because I am unable to move this thread to the rest of Arizona page, barring motion by this site's moderators, I will leave it here.
 
YIKES! 52 watts of Solid Gold Pow-Pow-Power during daylight hours is not fitting the storied tradition of Lumberyard 14~Forty. As soon as Nurse Jeff returns from the Buckeye No Kings march, we'll head over in our '76 Gremlin and make sure Mother Hubbard is TCB.
 
What interests me about this thread (and why I didn't delete altogether when I discovered KAZG back at full power) is KAZM's STA notice and its current Internet-only status. The new owner had updated the oldies format to a (mostly) yacht rock format in the late summer of last year and has now turned off the AM transmitter (and presumably the 106.5 mHz translator--though I can't verify *that* from my Phoenix location) and is now running a music-only Internet stream I now wonder if the stream will either be turned off or if the AM and FM translator will resume OTA broadcasting in the near future.

Here is the current "operation status" from the station's website. Note that the AM isn't mentioned at all.

www.mellowmountainradio.com

Operational Status

www.mellowmountainradio.com www.mellowmountainradio.com
 
If KAZM is off the air, Media Hut students think the linked translator should be off as well. However, nothing in the FCC data base indicates the translator operation has been suspended simultaneously with the linked AM station (paging Professor Fybush). KAZM's Corporate Headquarters is either in or near a Subway sammich shop at I-17 & Carefree Hwy. A footlong price was paid for the stations: $390k.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion of KAZ G.
 
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Stick a fork in them, they're done...

KAZM is pretty much for the history books.

Was able to confirm the FM translator is silent along with the AM.
Website is still up, but Listen Live has been disabled.
Phone number is disconnected.
Sent an email 2 weeks ago...no reply.
 
KilowattKat said:
Stick a fork in them, they're done...

KAZM is pretty much for the history books.

Was able to confirm the FM translator is silent along with the AM.
Website is still up, but Listen Live has been disabled.
Phone number is disconnected.
Sent an email 2 weeks ago...no reply.
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The "Listen Live" link from the website may be disabled but the stream is still very much online. The direct live365.com link is


And, I'm assuming that the website you are looking at is

www.mellowmountainradio.com

Home

www.mellowmountainradio.com www.mellowmountainradio.com

The website that the current owner has been using since taking over the KAZM assets.

(A note on the stream. I've been listening for about 15 minutes and haven't heard a callsign but I have heard advertisements for local businesses in the Cottonwood/Sedona area.)
 
ted chittenden said:
The "Listen Live" link from the website may be disabled but the stream is still very much online. The direct live365.com link is


And, I'm assuming that the website you are looking at is

www.mellowmountainradio.com

Home

www.mellowmountainradio.com www.mellowmountainradio.com

The website that the current owner has been using since taking over the KAZM assets.

(A note on the stream. I've been listening for about 15 minutes and haven't heard a callsign but I have heard advertisements for local businesses in the Cottonwood/Sedona area.)
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Certainly interesting, yes that's the website. What's telling is there is absolutely nothing on the website informing their audience about what's happening. The average listener is not going to do the legwork to find the links you did, if the website is no longer functioning. Not to mention getting a "no longer in service" message when calling.

Based on that, they are done.
 
KilowattKat said:
Certainly interesting, yes that's the website. What's telling is there is absolutely nothing on the website informing their audience about what's happening. The average listener is not going to do the legwork to find the links you did, if the website is no longer functioning. Not to mention getting a "no longer in service" message when calling.

Based on that, they are done.
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Odd. KAZM's owner had boasted on LinkedIn last year about how he got rid of "streaming wholesaler" Securenet Systems and created a DIY stream solution (which I thought was a smart move, but he probably left the stream going during Diamondbacks and Suns games). Strange for him to be running a Live365 stream based on this.

As for KAZM, "zagging while others were zigging" (using open source playback software, IIRC) was what probably got him. There were a lot of dead air gaps between songs when I had been listening last year. I don't think the "Local News -> 1-2 songs -> Arizona News Radio -> 1-2 songs -> CBS News update" format helped either. He should have stayed either music-centric or information-centric, but not both.
 
The Lamptimer made it up here just as d arkness was hitting here, and right before it started in lamptimer land sot hey were still at full day power. it was pretty clear that even if he hadnt said his name, i wouldve recognized afternoon jock Steve Goddards voice (as i had him cut some liners for me in Alaska once)
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
The Lamptimer made it up here just as d arkness was hitting here, and right before it started in lamptimer land sot hey were still at full day power. it was pretty clear that even if he hadnt said his name, i wouldve recognized afternoon jock Steve Goddards voice (as i had him cut some liners for me in Alaska once)
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Would love to hear an air check of the Goldmine just as the Lamptimer is kicking in at sunset up there in Alaska!
 
780 KAZM was easy to hear here in the Minneapolis area when they got stuck on day power. They had an off-frequency carrier at 779.984 that stuck out like a sore thumb.

Hopefully they can get something sorted out.

KAZM at 779.984 3-2-25.png
 


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