san francisco oakland san jose california branding 92.7 rev the revolution slogan san francisco s hit music channel frequency 92.7 mhz first air date august 1 1959 as kjaz format top 40 chr erp 3 600 watts haat 128 meters class a facility id 36029 callsign meaning k revolution former callsigns kjaz 1959 1994 kjaz fm 1994 1995 kzsf 1995 1998 kzsf fm 1998 1999 kxjo 1999 2002 kpti 2002 2004 kbtb 5 2004 10 2004 kngy 2004 2009 owner royce international webcast listen live website 927rev . com krev 92.7 fm branded as 92.7 rev the revolution is a top 40 chr music formatted radio station that serves the greater san francisco bay area . its city of license is alameda california and it is owned by royce international . the station s studios are located in the visitacion valley district of san francisco and the transmitter is located on top of bellaire tower in the city s russian hill neighborhood . contents 1 history 1.1 jazz music as kjaz 1.2 rock music as kxjo 1.3 92.7 party and power 92.7 1.4 energy 92.7 1.5 92.7 rev the revolution 2 references 3 external links history edit jazz music as kjaz edit see also kjaz as kjaz from august 1 1959 to july 31 1994 the station aired a jazz format . founded by pat henry kjaz prided itself on broadcasting only jazz music and a 1965 station brochure proclaimed kjaz northern california s first and only fulltime jazz station . in 1994 kjaz was sold after owner ron cowan in a financial crisis deemed the station unprofitable . since the demise of the jazz format some kjaz programmers and announcers have made their way to kcsm . since then the kjaz call sign has been used by various fm radio stations around the country and is currently the call sign for a silent station in point comfort texas owned by fort bend broadcasting of austin texas . rock music as kxjo edit though listeners mounted a fundraising effort to keep kjaz on the air by some reports raising 1.5 million the station was sold in 1994 and on july 31 kjaz was converted to a spanish music station the first of many different format changes the station would go through in the mid late 1990s . from 1999 to 2002 they simulcasted the rock format of ksjo in san jose as kxjo . 92.7 party and power 92.7 edit on may 26 2002 the 92.7 frequency s history as a dance music outlet would begin as kpti 92.7 party which was launched under former owner spanish broadcasting system . nearly two years later on march 17 2004 it was sold to new owners who flipped the format to mainstream urban as kbtb power 92.7 the beat of the bay . power 92.7 debuted on april 15 2004 with 48 straight hours of songs by tupac shakur a rapper from oakland . 1 after it failed to attract an audience along with controversy from rival kmel which made headlines in the press and on top of that seeing the sale falling apart the station was put up for sale again . energy 92.7 edit kbtb was acquired by flying bear media backed by alta communications and tailwind capital . ceo joe bayliss flipped the station back to dance music on october 2 2004 as energy 92.7 . 2 the station kept the kbtb call letters for several months before changing to kngy and kept the slogan the beat of the bay for over a year but changed it to pure dance in 2006 . on july 17 2005 kngy moved its signal from its old tower on russian hill to the sutro tower improving coverage in the south bay but later changed back to their old site due to signal issues . the effect was clear to south bay listeners who received a split signal between kngy and ktom a country format station from the santa cruz area . in areas around the north bay where line of site propagation is weak listeners received a split signal between kngy and kzsq a hot ac station from the sonora california area . energy 92.7 was also heard on comcast digital cable throughout the bay area on digital cable channel 964 and live online through the station s website . kngy was a reporter in billboard magazine s dance mix show airplay panel and was the most listened to dance electronic radio station on the west coast . kngy as energy 92.7 offered a current based mix of dance music with top 40 r & b remixes disco and club classics from the 1970s 1980s and 1990s added into the presentation . it also broadcast sophisticated and mood enhanced tracks including down tempo groove future jazz electronic rock and chillout beats . under bayliss kngy quickly built a reputation as the gay station san francisco s first commercial radio station that appealed openly to the bay area s large and highly influential gay community 3 with a number of on air djs and even a sportscaster who were openly gay . the station also became heavily involved in numerous gay community events including san francisco s annual gay pride parade in june . in fact after energy s demise in 2009 the station s morning show fernando and greg in the morning which was widely popular with fans was moved over to kmvq . in december 2005 former kllc program director john peake was hired as energy s new program director filling the vacancy left by chris shebel . prior to coming to san francisco pre kllc peake was the pd of influential top 40 krbe houston texas a station that was also known for adding dance cuts into their traditional playlist . in july 2008 peake resigned from the pd job which would be quickly filled by don parker who like peake also has credentials in programming dance leaning stations as he was the pd of rhythmic contemporary outlet kkfr phoenix during its dance intensive days in the late 1980s and mid 1990s . on weekends kngy aired a show called ghetto house radio which aired every saturday at midnight . the program featured a house dance music mix with a mix of rap and ghetto music until 2 a.m. sunday morning when trevor simpson s world town mix airs . in february 2009 kngy added former kgo talk show host karel to their lineup . his program aired from 9 p.m. to midnight monday through thursdays and it was the only time that the station did not play any music . however after five months karel s program was dropped from the lineup in june 2009 . 4 not in citation given 92.7 rev the revolution edit in july 2009 flying bear announced that kngy was sold to ed stolz s royce international broadcasting for 6.5 million . allaccess reported that the station will become a chr format station with the new callsign krev . 5 according to a published report 6 flying bear was forced to sell the station after it was unable to renegotiate the terms of a 6 million loan held by a subsidiary of wells fargo bank . in september 2009 kngy s on air and production staff were given notice that they were being laid off and pd don parker gave a short farewell to listeners on the afternoon of september 10 . energy s final song was walk away by kelly clarkson . 7 at 9 08pm pdt that day after a few false starts kngy s format was changed to top 40 as 92.7 rev fm . 8 9 the first song on rev fm was p nk s get this party started . the flip to top 40 marks krev s entry into an already interesting chr race in the san francisco bay area where it will have to compete for listeners with cbs radio s mainstream top 40 kmvq iheartmedia s top 40 powerhouse kyld and their urban chr sister kmel both of whom have more signal coverage than krev . krev s playlist station imaging and web site are essentially identical to that of kfrh in las vegas which is also krev s sister station . on october 12 2009 the once controversial morning show the dog house to the bay area airwaves on krev . to fill the hole left open by the flip of kngy kmvq flipped 99.7 fm s hd 2 signal to dance as pulse radio in 2010 . references edit arnold eric k. october 6 2004 . fighting the power . east bay express . retrieved july 3 2010 . fong torres ben october 17 2004 . radio waves . san francisco chronicle . p. pk 19 . retrieved july 3 2010 . bajko matthew november 24 2005 . a gay home on the radio dial . bay area reporter . p. 1 . retrieved january 7 2011 . from www.radiokrl.com june 30 2009 https twitter.com allaccess status 3890321221 http www.ebar.com news article.php sec news & article 4194 http boards.radio info.com smf index.php topic 152592 . msg1291720 msg1291720 whiting sam september 14 2009 . energy 92.7 goes from gay oriented to mainstream . the san francisco chronicle . http www.mercurynews.com topstories ci 13318940 external links edit official website kcsm scores old kjaz library at the wayback machine archived march 17 2006 in the spirit of kjaz energy 92.7 weekly charts u.s. dance radio post u.s. dance radio megamix query the fcc s fm station database for krev radio locator information on krev query nielsen audio s fm station database for krev v t e radio stations in the san francisco california market by am frequency 560 610 680 740 810 860 910 960 1010 1050 1100 1170 1190 1220 1260 1310 1370 1400 1430 1450 1500 1510 1550 1590 16103 1640 by fm frequency 87.72 87.9 88.1 88.1 88.5 89.1 89.3 89.3 89.3 89.3 89.3 89.5 89.7 89.9 90.1 90.3 90.5 90.5 90.7 91.1 91.5 91.7 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