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KNRJ
City of license	Payson, Arizona
Broadcast area	Phoenix
Branding	"Energy 92.7 & 101.1"
Slogan	The Beat of Arizona I Am Energy!
Frequency	92.7 / 101.1 / 106.3 (MHz)
Format	Dance Hits
ERP	92.7 - 10 Watts 101.1 - 77,000 Watts 106.3 - 10 Watts
Callsign meaning	NRJ sounds similar to energy K 224 (92.7) CJ (systematically assigned translator calls)
Owner	Sierra H Broadcasting
Website	http://www.energyarizonafm.com/

KNRJ 101.1 FM, K224CJ 92.7 FM, and K292DF 106.3 FM are a dance music trimulcast station serving the Phoenix area. KNRJ is licensed to is Payson, Arizona, which is 57 miles north of Phoenix, while K224CJ is a 10-watt translator from South Mountain's antenna farm to provide a better signal to the Phoenix area. Both are owned by Sierra H Broadcasting.

KNRJ's dance music product includes house, techno, and club music, as well as remixes of pop and R&B hits.

KNRJ is also a reporter in Billboard Magazine's Dance Radio Airplay panel.

In the late 1990s, KESP-FM signed on from Payson, Arizona as a classic hits format station named Loop 101. In 2000, the callsign was changed to KAZL (K AriZona Loop), and K224CJ 92.7 FM from South Mountain and K292DF 106.3 FM in Flagstaff were applied for and signed on during the same period. The station's goal was to be an alternative to KSLX, another classic hits station serving the Phoenix area. KNRJ, K224CJ, and K292DF never achieved sufficient ratings.

The dismal ratings were followed by an awkward format change on 18 June 2002: KAZL became an all-commercial station. This only lasted for three days, however.

The placeholder format was lifted at 5pm three days later (21 June 2002) for a format similar to WKIE in Chicago, as the program director of WKIE consulted that of KAZL. Thus, the name changed to "Energy 92.7 & 101.1"; to match, the callsign on 101.1 became KNRJ.

KNRJ targets Phoenix; although KNRJ's 101.1 signal does reach the northern portions of Maricopa County, K224CJ brings crucial coverage to the Phoenix metropolitan area and can be heard in the central and southern portions of the region. Its main signal on 101.1 between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon has interference from by 101.1 FM KPLD in Saint George, Utah. Past Seligman, Arizona, the signal from 101.1 FM KRRK in Lake Havasu City, Arizona disrupts any KNRJ reception.

• KNRJ website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KNRJ
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K224CJ
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K292DF

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