Here is a brief history ...

KXZY came about from a desire by Oklahoma State University School of Journalism and Broadcasting students to gain practical radio experience. This was in the fall of 1992. Numerous meetings were held with the Cable Advisory Board on campus before a schedule of two hours a night, five nights a week was agreed upon. We came up with the call letters KWBY. However, there is a commercial station in the northwest that has those call letters so we contacted the GM there and he agreed to let us use those call letters as long as we were not broadcasting over the air. Since we were only on the campus cable system that was not an issue. We set a date for the last Sunday in January of 1993 for our first broadcast. But then the announcer scheduled for our first broadcast realized that was Super Bowl Sunday. We decided to wait until Monday for our first broadcast ...

The schedule expanded fairly rapidly after that and KWBY was soon broadcasting 10 to 12 hours a day, five to seven days a week. We were limited only by the number of volunteer announcers we had. Students in the Broadcast News Writing I class did newscasts for the station as they continue to do so today. Students in the Audio Production class also contribute to the station by serving as announcers and producing promos and other announcements for air.

The next major step occurred in the late 1990s when a Tulsa computer company donated a computer to the station and we were then able to digitize all our music and run automated programming when we didn't have live announcers. Prior to that time, music CDs were kept in a few boxes which were put in the studio every day prior to going on the air. The automation system also allowed us to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.

We developed a Web presence around 2000, but it was not until December of 2006 that we began streaming on the Web. This was part of a computer upgrade made possible in part by gaining underwriters - sponsors - for our programming. By this time we'd also changed our call letters to KXZY in preparation for Webcasting.

Today, KXZY is part of a burgeoning music scene in Stillwater, OK and celebrates daily the meteoric rise in popularity of non-corporate rock: independent music and college radio.  Here at kxzy.okstate.edu, we are taking advantage of the exciting opportunity of online broadcasting and the natural desire to dominate the globe.