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{{Infobox Radio station
| name      = KREV 
| image     = 
| city      = [[Alameda, California]]
| area      = [[San Francisco Bay Area]]
| airdate   = [[1959 in radio|1959]].
| frequency = 92.7 ([[megahertz|MHz]])
| branding  = ''92.7 Rev FM''
| slogan    = "San Francisco's Hit Music Channel"
| format    = [[Contemporary hit radio|Top 40 (CHR)]]
| erp       = 3,600 [[watt]]s
| haat      = 128 meters
| class     = A
| facility_id = 36029
| callsign_meaning = '''REV'''olution |
| owner     = Royce International''
| website   = [http://www.927rev.com/ 927rev.com]
|}}
'''KREV''' (92.7 [[FM broadcasting|FM]], "92.7 Rev Fm") is a [[Contemporary hit radio|Top 40 (CHR)]] music formatted [[radio station]] that serves the [[San Francisco]] Bay Area. Its city of license is [[Alameda, California]], and it is owned by Royce International. 

==History==
===Jazz music as KJAZ===
As '''KJAZ''' from [[1959#August|August 1, 1959]] to [[1994#July|July 31, 1994]], the station aired a [[jazz]] format. Founded by Pat Henry, KJAZ prided itself on broadcasting only jazz music, and a 1965 station brochure proclaimed KJAZ "northern California's first and only fulltime jazz station".

In 1994, KJAZ was sold after owner [[Ron Cowan]], in a financial crisis, deemed the station unprofitable. Since the demise of the jazz format, some KJAZ programmers and announcers have made their way to [[KCSM (FM)|KCSM]].

Since then, the KJAZ [[call sign]] has been used by various FM radio stations around the country, and is currently the call sign for a silent station in [[Point Comfort]],[[Texas]] owned by Fort Bend Broadcasting of Austin, Texas.

*''See also [[KJAZ]]''

===Rock music as KXJO===
Though listeners mounted a fundraising effort to keep KJAZ on the air (by some reports raising $1.5 million), the station was sold in 1994 and KJAZ was converted to a different format. For a time, they simulcast the rock format of [[KSJO]] in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] as '''KXJO'''.

===Dance and urban music as KPTI/KBTB/KNGY===
On [[May 26]], [[2002]], the 92.7 frequency's history as a [[dance music]] outlet would begin as KPTI, "92.7 PARTY," which was launched under former owner [[Spanish Broadcasting System]]. Nearly two years later, on [[March 17]], [[2004]], it was sold to new owners, who flipped the format to R&B/hip-hop as- KBTB, "Power 92.7, The Beat of the Bay." After it failed to attract an audience, along with controversy from rival [[KMEL]] (which made headlines in the press) and on top of that, seeing the sale falling apart, the station was put on sale again.

KBTB was acquired by Flying Bear Media, backed by [[Alta Communications]] and [[Tailwind Capital]]. CEO Joe Bayliss flipped the station back to dance music on [[October 2]], [[2004]] as '''Energy 92.7''' under guidance by Chris Shebel, who earlier was program director of Energy 92.7&5 in [[Chicago, Illinois]] at [[WKIE]]/[[WKIF]]/[[WDEK]] and consulted the launch of Energy 92.7 & 101.1 in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] at [[KNRJ]]. The station kept the KBTB call letters for several months before changing to '''KNGY''', and kept the '''The Beat of the Bay''' slogan for over a year, but changed it to '''Pure Dance''' in 2006. 

On [[July 17]], [[2005]], KNGY moved its signal from its old tower on Russian Hill to the Sutro Tower, improving coverage in the South Bay, but later changed back to their old site due to signal issues. The effect was clear to South Bay listeners, who received a split signal between KNGY and [[KTOM]], a country-format station from the [[Santa Cruz, California|Santa Cruz]] area. In areas around the North Bay where line-of-site propagation is weak, listeners received a split signal between KNGY and [[KZSQ]], a mix station from the [[Sonora, California]] area. Energy 92.7 was able to also be heard on Comcast Digital Cable throughout the Bay Area on digital cable channel 964 and live online. 

KNGY was a reporter in [[Billboard Magazine]]'s [[Hot Dance Airplay]] panel and is the most-listened-to dance/electronic radio station on the West Coast.  KNGY as "Energy 92.7" offered a current-based mix of [[dance music]], with [[Top 40]], [[R&B]] [[remixes]], [[disco]] and [[club]] classics from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s added into the presentation. It also broadcasted sophisticated and mood-enhanced tracks including [[down-tempo]] [[groove]], [[future jazz]], [[electronic rock]] and [[chillout]] beats.

In December 2005 [[KLLC]] (Alice@97.3) San Francisco program director John Peake was hired as Energy's new program director, filling the vacancy left by Shebel. Prior to coming to San Francisco pre-KLLC, Peake was the PD of influential Top 40 [[KRBE]]/[[Houston, Texas]], a station that was also known for adding Dance [[cut (music)|cuts]] into their traditional playlist. In July 2008 Peake resigned from the PD job, which would be quickly filled by Don Parker, who, like Peake, also has credentials in programming Dance-leaning stations as he was the PD of [[Rhythmic contemporary]] outlet [[KKFR]]/Phoenix during its Dance-intensive days in the late 1980s and mid 1990s.

On weekends, KNGY turned their broadcasts to a show called "Ghetto House Radio" which aired every Saturday at midnight. The program featured a house/dance music mix with a mix of rap and "ghetto" music until 2 a.m. Sunday morning, when Trevor Simpson's world town mix comes into play.

In February 2009, KNGY added former [[KGO-AM]] talk show host [[Charles Karel Bouley|Karel]] to their lineup. His program aired from 9PM to 12Mid Monday through Thursdays and it was the only time that the station did not play any music. However, after five months, Karel's program was dropped from the lineup in June 2009 due to low ratings and financial issues<ref>[http://www.radiokrl.com/ From www.radiokrl.com (June 30, 2009)]</ref>.

===Top 40 as KREV===
In July 2009, Flying Bear announced that KNGY was sold to Ed Stolz's Royce International Broadcasting for $6.5 million. AllAccess reported that the station will become a [[CHR]]-format station with the new callsign KREV<ref>http://twitter.com/AllAccess/status/3890321221</ref>.

In September 2009, KNGY's on-air and production staff were given notice that they were being laid off, and PD Don Parker gave a short farewell to listeners on the afternoon of September 10th.  At 9:08pm (PDT), 2009, after a few false starts,  KNGY's format was changed to 92.7FM The Revolution. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/13/DDBK19LRFJ.DTL</ref><ref>http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_13318940</ref> The first song to play was Pink's "Get This Party Started."  The flip to Top 40 marks KREV's entry into an already interesting CHR race in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it will have to compete for listeners with [[CBS Radio]]'s Rhythmic-leaning Mainstream Top 40 [[KMVQ]] and [[Clear Channel Communications]] [[Rhythmic contemporary|Rhythmic Top 40]] powerhouse [[KYLD]], both of whom have more signal coverage than KREV. KREV's playlist, station imaging and web site is essentially identical to that of [[KFRH]] 104.3 Now FM in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], which is also KREV's sister station.

The news of KREV's format switch would later get the attention of the City and County of San Francisco officials and from its listeners, who were not happy about what took place. On September 21, 2009, The [[San Francisco Board of Supervisors]] announced that it would vote on Tuesday (September 22) on a resolution, authored by Supervisor [[Bevan Dufty]], that encourages Stolz, "to continue with the Community/Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender/Dance radio format that has made Energy 92.7 one of the most unique and popular radio stations in San Francisco and the Bay Area." However, despite this move from city officials, this resolution might not do much to convince Stolz about restoring the Dance format.<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?&entry_id=47946#ixzz0RZwwmRCq "Energy 92.7 has a friend at City Hall" From San Francisco Chronicle (September 21, 2009)]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}} 
*{{wayback |url=http://www.jazzwest.com/archive/articles/archives/kjaz.html |date=20060317001626 |title=KCSM Scores Old KJAZ Library}}
*[http://www.timhodges.net/SPIRIT/ In the Spirit of KJAZ]

== External links ==
*{{official|http://www.927rev.com}}
*[http://energy927sf.blogspot.com  Energy 92.7 Weekly Charts]
*[http://danceradio.blogspot.com U.S. Dance Radio Post]
*[http://simdancemix.blogspot.com U.S. Dance Radio Megamix]
*{{FM station data|KREV}}

{{San Francisco Radio}}
{{Contemporary Hit Radio Stations in California}}

[[Category:Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States]]
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