KSIZ

KSIZ is a radio station based in Mount Shasta, California, owned by Mark & Cynthia Kay Baird's Buffalo Broadcasting, LLC, which also owns KSYC-FM in Yreka. KSIZ broadcasts to the Siskiyou County and Redding markets, and has one of the largest geographical reaches of any FM station Northern California. The program director/on-air talent is Joe Kesterson, who also hosts the evening show on KSYC show. Kesterson replaces Rick Martin, former station owner/general manager/on-air talent, who had been on the air in the market for 20 straight years, longer than any other local personality.The station hit the air once again under the classic rock format in January 2013 with the slogan "Sizzlin' Classic Rock".HistoryThe station first signed on the air in 1983 as KSQU-FM, in Weed, California. It was later purchased in 1984 by Tom Erickson of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, moved to Mount Shasta and renamed KWHO-FM. The station was one of two country music radio stations in Siskiyou County and the first to broadcast country music on the FM band in the market.KWHO was sold to Huth Broadcasting in 1997 and the format was changed to adult contemporary. Then the station was flipped to Four Rivers Broadcasting, which already owned KSYC-AM, KSYC-FM, KMJC, and KMJC-FM. The format remained until 2003 when the news talk format moved from the AM stations to KWHO. The call letters were changed to KNTK in 2004.