KIQZ

KIQZ

City of license	Rawlins, Wyoming
Slogan	"The ROCK of Carbon County"
Frequency	92.7 MHz
First air date	1981
Format	Silent (was Hot AC)
ERP	3,000 watts(REGISTERED)/ 100watt(ACTUAL)
HAAT	91 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	46737
Transmitter coordinates	41°46′16″N 107°14′15″W
Former callsigns	KIAJ (1981)
Affiliations	Jones Radio Network
Owner	Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting, Inc.
Sister stations	KRAL
Website	kiqz.net

KIQZ (92.7 FM) was a radio station broadcasting a Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Rawlins, Wyoming, USA, the station is owned by Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting, Inc. It previously featured programing from AP Radio and Jones Radio Network. KIQZ was simulcasted on sister station KRAL also from Rawlins. The station was assigned the call letters KIAJ on August 13, 1981. On November 4, 1981, the station changed its call sign to the current KIQZ..

Signal

KIQZ covered most of central Carbon County, much like its sister station KRAL. It could only be heard to the Sweetwater County/Carbon County line.

FCC Fines and Penalties

Since the station's change of ownership from "Elk Mountain Broadcasting" to current owner "Mount Rushmore Broadcasting", KIQZ, and its sister station, KRAL(AM 1240) have been fined by the FCC many times. Past penalties include a $20,000 fine for "failing to maintain the operational readiness of the EAS (Emergency Alert{Readiness}System) equipment (see FCC Rules/11.35(a)), as well as other equipment issues and violations and failure to maintain a complete public records file."

Sources connected to the F.C.C. say that more and significantly higher fines/penalties are probable. They continue by stating that any station owned or operated by Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting will "not likely" have their licenses renewed once they expire, due to the history of "past violations and cavalier attitude(s) towards following and maintaining" rules and regulations, and that this and other M.R.B. stations could have their broadcasting rights taken away "at almost any moment". Since this is an all-but-done set of circumstances, Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting's owner, Jan Charles Gray has been operating all of M.R.B.'s stations with little or no staff, whatsoever. On or around July 10th, 2010, Gray filed with the F.C.C. documentation that stated KRAL had gone off the air due to "technical" problems. What he failed to do was inform the F.C.C. that the station had been in a non-broadcasting mode for well over 18 months prior to this filing. Several past and current employees of M.R.B. had informed Gray of the station's failing broadcast signal as far back as 2008, with Gray responding "No one listens to A.M. radio anymore, anyway."

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for KIQZ
• Radio-Locator information on KIQZ
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KIQZ