KZEE (1220
kHz
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Radio Hot Pepper 1220 AM) is a
commercial
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* a dose of advertising ...
AM radio station
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licensed to
Weatherford, Texas
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, and serving the western section of the
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by Tarrant Radio Broadcasters and airs a
South Asia
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n
radio format
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featuring
Bollywood music
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and talk. Most of the schedule is
brokered programming
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, where hosts buys time on the station and may use it to advertise their clients while doing their shows.
KZEE broadcasts by day at 1,600
watt
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s. But at night, to protect other stations on
1220 AM, it reduces power to 200 watts. A
directional antenna
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is used at all times. The
transmitter
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is on Lucas Street at Eden Road in Weatherford.
History
KZEE began broadcasting as a
Top 40
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radio station in August 1956. Originally owned by Tom Gibson and Ed McLemore, it was later owned by Horace Boren who sold it to J. Fred Case dba Bartlesville Broadcasting Corp. In 1966, the station, in response to
John Lennon
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’s statement about
Jesus Christ
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, “damned their (Beatles) songs eternally.”
The station was sold in the 1970s to Galen Gilbert dba Community Service Radio Group. In the 1980s it went through a succession of other owners until
2005
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when the station flipped its format to
South Asia
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n programming under its current ownership.
References
External links
KZEE station website DFW Radio/TV History
Radio stations established in 1956
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1956 establishments in Texas
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