KJZZ (91.5 FM) is a National Public Radio member station in Phoenix, Arizona. Owned by Rio Salado College, it operates from studios inside the C Building on the college's campus on West 14th Street in Tempe. KJZZ airs a format of NPR, and blues and airs jazz on its HD2 subchannel. KJZZ is sister station to the area's main classical music station, KBAQ. The station signed on February 22, 1951, broadcasting from the campus of Phoenix College, then an arm of the Phoenix Union High School District, as KFCA. It was Phoenix's first FM radio station, broadcasting with 10 watts on 88.5 MHz. It became a part of the Maricopa County Junior College District, and then the Maricopa County Community College District when the district was formed in 1962. The station moved to 91.5 MHz in 1966. In 1971, KFCA joined NPR and was approved for a power increase to 100,000 watts with a new tower on South Mountain. On August 24, 1972, soon after signing on from its new, stronger tower, the station changed its calls to KMCR-FM for "Maricopa County Radio". In 1985, the call letters were changed to KJZZ to reflect the jazz music programming that it featured. Within a few years, the station was transferred to the umbrella of Rio Salado College, also in the Maricopa County Community College District, as part of a district reorganization. KJZZ was considered a good fit for Rio Salado College's mission; Rio Salado was conceived as a "campus without walls" and serves as the umbrella for all classes and other academic activities not specifically offered at one of the district's physical campuses. More information...
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