KOZB

KOZB (97.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Livingston, Montana, United States. The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC.

KOZB
Broadcast areaBozeman, Montana
Frequency97.5 MHz
Branding97.5 The Zone
Programming
FormatActive rock
Ownership
Owner
  • Cameron Maxwell
  • (Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC)
KBOZ, KBOZ-FM, KOBB, KOBB-FM
History
First air date
December 1977[1] (as KYBS)
Former call signs
KYBS (1977–1993)
KATH (1993)
KBOZ-FM (1993–1995)
KPKX (1995–2004)
Technical information
Facility ID16777
ClassC1
ERP100,000 watts
HAAT75 meters
Transmitter coordinates
45°39′26″N 110°58′22″W
Links
Websitethezone975.com

The offices and all the studios were at one time located southwest of Bozeman at "Radio Ranch", 5445 Johnson Road but no longer there. Its transmitter site is east of Bozeman, on Bozeman Trail Road. KBOZ-FM, KOZB, and KOBB-FM all have construction permits to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman.

History

The station signed on in December 1977[1] as KYBS. It changed its call sign to KATH in April 1993; on November 25, 1993, it became KBOZ-FM. On August 1, 1995, the station switched its call sign to KPKX, and on August 3, 2004, it became KOZB.[2]

On June 1, 2018, KOZB and its sister stations went off the air.[3][4]

Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KOZB and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company, Inc. to Richard J. Samson, as Receiver. The licenses for these stations were sold to Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC for $300,000 in a deal completed on January 31, 2022. The station came back on the air as active rock 97.5 the Zone.[5]

References
  1. Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2009 (PDF). 2009. p. D-338. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. "KOZB Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. Five Station Cluster Shuts Down in Bozeman Radioinsight - June 3, 2018
  4. Schontzler, Gail. "KBOZ radio stations go dark, future uncertain". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  5. "Deal Digest – February 3, 2021". Retrieved 2022-08-07.


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