KLPZ is truly unique - the end product of over 30 years of changing and adapting to become The Last Medium of Freedom as you know it today. And more has changed than you may think. The station started life in 1974 as KZUL, ‘Kazual’, with a license to broadcast on frequency 1380am from 816 6th Street in Parker, AZ with 2500 watts of power. The station would reach the cities of Lake Havasu to the north and Blythe to the south, making it a premiere broadcast site for parts of California and Arizona.

In 1983, two changes occurred which helped shape the future of the station. Firstly, Yuma County in Arizona split to accommodate the growth of the area, forming a brand new county in the process. KZUL now found itself in the seat of La Paz County, so it renamed to match, and became KLPZ. The second change of that year was that Chuck Scofield of Scofield Broadcasting, in what he described as “a moment of insanity”, decided to buy KLPZ and add it to his family of stations.

A new employee showed up to work, coming from KZRX in Phoenix just before Thanksgiving in 1992. His name was Keith Douglas Learn, born and raised in North Dakota. He was to be co-host of the morning show, but in a very short space of time began to host the show alone. His style seemed to resonate with listeners, and he had several co-hosts on the show for many years. That was before a change that came with the dawn of the new millennium.

Keith had his own “moment of insanity”. At 11.30am on April Fool’s Day, 2000, he bought the station from Chuck Scofield, and Learn Broadcasting recieved a license from the FCC. Keith realized that KLPZ was “too wild” for a traditional format and had never quite fit into such a mold anyway, so he designated the station’s original format, ‘Country And A Little More’. His girlfriend Juanita joined him from Phoenix to co-host the show, which became Mornings With Keith & Juanita.

Since then, some additional changes have taken place at KLPZ. Firstly, Keith and Juanita were married on January 5th, 2001, which gave the station its first husband-wife team on the morning show. Most recently, a young Irish guy brought them a British dessert, a ‘Banoffee Pie’, during a show in June 2004. He had some radio experience in Northern Ireland, and so, when a vacancy appeared in October of that year, John Wright joined the KLPZ team as host of the afternoon show.

These people, this story, and a sense of the unexpected join together to comprise the KLPZ of today: radio like you’ll find nowhere else.