KOZB

KOZB
City	Livingston, Montana
Broadcast area	Bozeman, Montana
Frequency	97.5 MHz
Branding	97.5 The Zone
Programming
Format	Active rock
Ownership
Owner	Richard J. Samson, as Receiver
Sister stations	KBOZ, KBOZ-FM, KOBB, KOBB-FM
History
First air date	December 1977 (as KYBS)
Former call signs	KYBS (1977–1993); KATH (1993); KBOZ-FM (1993–1995); KPKX (1995–2004)
Technical information
Facility ID	16777
Class	C1
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	75 meters
Transmitter coordinates	45°39′26″N 110°58′22″W / 45.65722°N 110.97278°WCoordinates: 45°39′26″N 110°58′22″W / 45.65722°N 110.97278°W
Links
Website	thezone975.com

KOZB (97.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Livingston, Montana, United States. The station's license is held by Richard J. Samson, as Receiver.^[2]

The offices and all the studios are located southwest of Bozeman at "Radio Ranch", 5445 Johnson Road. Its transmitter site is east of Bozeman, on Bozeman Trail Road. KBOZ-FM, KOZB, and KOBB-FM all have construction permits to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman.

History[]

The station signed on in December 1977^[1] as KYBS. It changed its call letters to KATH in April 1993; on November 25, 1993, it became KBOZ-FM. On August 1, 1995, the station switched calls to KPKX, and on August 3, 2004 it became KOZB.^[3]

On June 1, 2018, KOZB and its sister stations went off the air.^[4]^[5]

Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KOZB and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company, Inc. to Richard J. Samson, as Receiver.