KZZP, 104.7 KISS-FM, is a Top 40 radio outlet serving the Phoenix area. The Clear Channel Communications station broadcasts at 104.7 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW and is licensed in Mesa, Arizona. Due to its 100 kW tower located atop South Mountain, the station can be easily picked up in most parts of Tucson. The station plays a large variety of hip-hop, pop and rock tracks.
KZZP was originally KTYL-FM (calls now used by a station in Tyler, Texas), c...
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KZZP, 104.7 KISS-FM, is a Top 40 radio outlet serving the Phoenix area. The Clear Channel Communications station broadcasts at 104.7 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW and is licensed in Mesa, Arizona. Due to its 100 kW tower located atop South Mountain, the station can be easily picked up in most parts of Tucson. The station plays a large variety of hip-hop, pop and rock tracks.
KZZP was originally KTYL-FM (calls now used by a station in Tyler, Texas), co-owned with 1310 AM in Mesa. Western Cities Broadcasting purchased KZZP in 1980 and flipped it to a Top 40 format, with personalities like Jonathon Brandmeier, Dave Otto, and Steve Goddard.
Brandmeier later made a huge name for himself in Chicago at WLUP. His show on KZZP featured prank phone calls, parody songs which Brandmeier himself usually wrote, sang and recorded, and a cast of regular characters. When Brandmeier went to Chicago's WLUP, Western Cities won an injunction to keep him off the air in the Windy City until his contract with...
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