KZSJ


KZSJ is a broadcast radio station licensed to San Martin, California, United States. Broadcasting with a Vietnamese format, the station serves San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley. The station is currently owned by Bustos Media. Programming is produced by Quê Hương Media, which used to air on a digital subchannel of KAXT-CD.

History

Founded by Jeffrey Eustis, KZSJ had its first construction permit on January 18, 1991, with call sign KSJI. The call sign was changed to KZSJ on November 1, 1995. Later that month, KZSJ began broadcasting with a regional Mexican music format that played genres including banda and ranchera as part of the Z-Spanish Radio Network operated by Redwood City entrepreneur Amador Bustos. Eustis finalized a sale of KZSJ for $450,000 in late January 1996 to Bustos, Programming on the Quê Hương radio network has included music, community events, and legal advice geared towards Vietnamese-American communities. By 2003, Bustos moved KZSJ to his Bustos Media company. In July 2003, KZSJ broadcast public service announcements from the San Jose Police Department in Vietnamese expressing condolences to the family of a 25-year-old woman of Vietnamese descent who was fatally shot at her home by officers who thought the woman was carrying a weapon, which turned out to be a vegetable peeler.
On February 1, 2018, Bustos Media obtained a construction permit for a 10-watt FM translator for KZSJ in San Jose, K269GX. The FM translator was formally licensed on April 8, 2020.