KQIZ-FM is a Rhythmic Top 40 music formatted radio station

Radio station

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 in Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo, Texas

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, U.S.A.

United States

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. KQIZ is owned by the media company, Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks...

. It was originally a Top 40

Top Forty

The Top Forty or Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most-popular songs in a particular genre. When used without qualification, it typically refers to the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music songs of the previous week...

 radio station called Z-93. In September 2000, it altered its format from the Pop/CHR

Pop music

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-styled Top 40 format to the current one consisting of Hip Hop

Hip hop music

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, R&B and some Dance

Dance music

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 music and changed its name to 93.1 The Beat. The first song under their new format was "Party Up" by rapper DMX

DMX (rapper)

Earl Simmons , better known by his stage name DMX, is a multiplatinum American rapper and actor who rose to fame in the late 1990s. His stage name pays tribute to the Oberheim DMX drum machine, an instrument he used when he made his own rap beats in the 80's...

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KQIZ was owned by Wiskes Abaris Communications until they were acquired by Cumulus Media in 1998.

Personalities

As of February 1, the full-time personalities were:

• Kidd Kraddick in the Morning
  Kidd Kraddick in the Morning
  Kidd Kraddick in the Morning is an American morning radio show hosted by Kidd Kraddick on Cumulus Media Networks...
  
  
• Deanna McGuire
• Supreme

The station is also an affiliate of the syndicated Baka Boyz, Clinton Sparks Smash Time Radio, MTV TRL Hip Hop Countdown, Sunday Nite Slow Jams with R-Dub, and Live in the Den with Big Tigger

Big Tigger

Darian "Big Tigger" Morgan , also known as Big Tigg; is an American television and radio personality best known as the host of BET's Rap City and 106 & Park.- :...

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