KJJZ is a 2.6 kW Class A commercial smooth jazz

Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....

 radio station licensed in Indio, California

Indio, California

Indio is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies east of Palm Springs, east of Riverside, and east of Los Angeles. It is about north of Mexicali, Baja California on the U.S.-Mexican border...

, with studios in Palm Springs

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego...

 and which serves the greater Coachella Valley

Coachella Valley

Coachella Valley is a large valley landform in Southern California. The valley extends for approximately 45 miles in Riverside County southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the saltwater Salton Sea, the largest lake in California...

 on 102.3 FM

Frequency modulation

In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...

. The transmitter site is on a peak of the Indio Hills

Indio Hills

The Indio Hills are a mountain range in Riverside County, California.The Indio Hills are along the San Andreas Fault, with natural springs supporting a native California Fan Palm - Washingtonia filifera oasis. The Indio Hills Palms State Reserve and Coachella Valley National Wildlife Refuge are...

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The station, one of the first smooth jazz stations in the country, aired in 1996. The frequency was allocated less than three years before to KLCX Palm Desert

Palm Desert, California

Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley, approximately east of Palm Springs. The population was 48,445 at the 2010 census, up from 41,155 at the 2000 census...

, the area's first classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 station. Though KLCX began as one of the most ambitious broadcasting projects to come to the Coachella Valley in years, the station soon fell on hard times. Financial troubles forced the sale of KLCX, its license and equipment to RM Broadcasting, owners of KPLM Palm Springs and KAJR

KAJR

KAJR is a 1.75 kW Class A commercial radio station licensed in Indian Wells, California, which broadcasts to the greater Coachella Valley and the Morongo Basin at 95.9 MHz. Originally a JACK-FM affiliate, KAJR airs a soft AC music format branded as "The Oasis" as of February 1, 2010.The...

 Indian Wells

Indian Wells, California

Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,958....

. The studio equipment was moved to KPLM's Palm Springs studios.

RM Broadcasting hired smooth jazz concert promoter Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald as an independent contractor to head KJJZ as its program director and morning drive personality, positions he holds to this day.

Like sister station KPLM, KJJZ is active in bringing top name talent to the area for concert performances via Mr. Fitzgerald's promotions company. Fitzgerald also sponsors "Fitz's Jazz Café," an ongoing series of small concert venues which has featured name artists such as Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald (singer)

Michael McDonald is a five-time Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter. McDonald is known for a soulful baritone singing style and a multi-octave range. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan...

, Chris Botti

Chris Botti

Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...

 and Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood

Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998...

. Saxophonist Euge Groove

Euge Groove

Steven Eugene Grove , better known as Euge Groove, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist with a strong Top-40 background....

headlined the station's 2008-09 New Year's Eve party.

As of November 2006, both KJJZ and KPLM stream real-time audio via the internet.