KJAZ is a radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to Point Comfort, Texas

Point Comfort, Texas

Point Comfort is a city in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. It is a part of the Victoria, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 781 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Point Comfort is located at...

, USA. The license is currently held by Henderson Broadcasting, which acquired the license in March 2008 from Fort Bend Broadcasting Company, Inc... As of December 2008, the station does not have an approved transmitter site and is officially "Silent".

History

According to the FCC history, this station was originally licensed as KAJI in 1994. The station acquired the KJAZ callsign on December 14, 2005.http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=6022&Callsign=KJAZ.

The station's first request to "Remain Silent

Dark (broadcasting)

In the broadcasting industry, dark is a term used to describe a radio station or television station that has gone off-the-air for an indefinite period of time, or as defined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission , a "silent" station...

" occurred in 2001, the first of 13 such requests that the FCC has approved.http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Facility_id=6022

External links

• Current KJAZ station

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• KJAZ San Francisco
  • In the Spirit of KJAZ
  • Spirit of KJAZ Shoutcast
  • JazzWest - KCSM Scores Old KJAZ Library