KAHZ

KAHZ

Repeater of KAZN, Pasadena
Pomona, California
Broadcast area	Pomona Valley
Frequency	1600 kHz
Branding	KAZN AM 1300 中文廣播電臺
Programming
Language(s)	Mandarin
Ownership
Owner	Multicultural Broadcasting (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	KALI, KALI-FM, KAZN, KBLA, KMRB
History
First air date	July 22, 1947; 77 years ago (1947-07-22)
Former call signs	KPMO (1947–1955) KBUZ (1955) KWOW (1955–1987) KMNY (1987–2005)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	61814
Class	B
Power	5,000 watts
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.am1300.com

KAHZ (1600 AM) is a broadcast radio station in the United States. Licensed to Pomona, California, the station is owned by Multicultural Broadcasting and is a full-time simulcast of KAZN, a Chinese language station licensed in Pasadena.

The station first signed on in 1947 as KPMO. For nearly four decades, the station was owned by Dean H. Wickstrom and his family. KPMO began as a community radio station serving Pomona. In 1955, KPMO became KWOW. Throughout the 1960s, KWOW had a country music format. Then for much of the 1970s and 1980s, KWOW had an oldies format.

In 1986, the Wickstrom family sold KWOW to local investment advisor Edward "Buz" Schwartz. The station changed its call sign to KMNY in 1987 and was branded "Money Radio" after Schwartz's investment company. KMNY was reportedly the first 24-hour business news and talk station in the U.S. However, the station was controversial from the start, as Schwartz was under investigation by the state of California for securities fraud; the Federal Communications Commission fined KMNY in 1990 for multiple violations, including failures to disclose that guests purchased time on the station.

Multicultural Broadcasting purchased the station in 1998. Early in its ownership of KMNY, the station had a variety of its previous financial programming, music, and programming in Vietnamese and Cantonese. This time programming completely in Chinese, KMNY returned to business news full time in 2000. In 2005, KMNY became KAHZ and dropped its original programming to simulcast KAZN full time.