KZIZ

KZIZ
City Sumner, Washington
Broadcast area Seattle
Frequency 1560 kHz
First air date 1965
Format Multicultural
Power 5,000 watts day
3,300 watts critical hours
900 watts night
Class D
Callsign meaning Formerly one of the Z Twins: KRIZ(s) Bennett, former owners
Former callsigns KDFL (1965-1986)
Owner Gursharan Thind
(XL Media Inc.)
Website www.radiopunjab.com

KZIZ (1560 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a multicultural format. Licensed to Sumner, Washington, USA, it serves the Seattle area. The station is currently owned by Gursharan Thind, through licensee XL Media Inc.

Until 2016, KZIZ was one of three stations in the Puget Sound region that made up The Z Twins, serving the African-American communities of King and Pierce County, Washington with a diverse R&B, Gospel & Talk format as well as Hispanic programming.

As KDFL

KZIZ originally went on the air in 1965 as KDFL, which aired religious programming, but was sold to Kris Bennet Broadcasting in 1986, and became KZIZ and started simulcasting the Urban Contemporary format that sister-station KRIZ 1420 had, then switched to Urban Gospel in 2001.

KZIZ switched to Smooth Jazz on May 24, 2013. The move returned the smooth jazz format to analog radio in Seattle/Tacoma for the first time since KWJZ-FM's switch to KLCK-FM in December 2010.

On March 6, 2016, KZIZ flipped to multicultural programming, mostly targeting the South Asian population. Effective June 7, 2016, XL Media Inc. acquired KZIZ for $680,000.[1][2]

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Coordinates: 47°14′10″N 122°13′44″W / 47.23611°N 122.22889°W / 47.23611; -122.22889


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