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KZZP
City of license	Mesa
Broadcast area	Phoenix
Branding	"104.7 KISS-FM"
First air date	1980
Frequency	104.7 (MHz)
Format	Top 40 CHR (1996--)
ERP	100,000 watts
Callsign meaning	KiZZ (Kiss) Phoenix
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	http://www.1047kissfm.com/

KZZP, 104.7 KISS-FM, is a Mainstream Top 40 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 on top of South Mountain, the station can be easily picked up in most parts of Tucson. The stations plays a large variety of hip-hop, pop and rock tracks.

KZZP was originally KTYL-FM, 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 two-year stay at KZZP, in the early 1980's, helped him develop his rapid-fire, sound-effects-driven, sarcastic style. His show on KZZP was full of prank phone calls, parody songs which Brandmeier himself usually wrote, sang and recorded, and a somewhat bizarre 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 KZZP had officially expired.

Meanwhile, Nationwide Communications acquired Western Cities in 1985, and hired personality Bruce Kelly. Although he was under contract with the station, KZZP fired Kelly and he won a legal battle with the company over lost earnings. Kelly later returned to KZZP in morning drive in the fall of 1998 for another run. He last worked at XM Satellite Radio.

KZZP dropped the famous call letters in favor of KVRY, but in 1996, returned to KZZP because of strong brand recognition in the Phoenix market. Brandmeier made a brief return, via syndication, in mornings), in 1996, but to no ratings success.

The station is now branded on-air as KISS-FM, the KZZP call letters are only used as hourly station identification as required by the FCC.

In 2001, now owned by Clear Channel, the station's music moved in a more Rhythmic direction. Although they would broaden up to include mainstream Pop product by 2004, KZZP's playlist still leaned heavily towards Rhythmic, similar to many Top 40 stations in large cities.

KZZP's HD2 subchannel carries Clear Channel's satellite-delivered "La Preciosa" Spanish Oldies network.[1]

• 104.7KISS-FM's website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KZZP
• 104.7KISS-FM's Best Prank Call Segment

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