KRQZ
radio station in Lompoc, California
KRQZ (91.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Lompoc, California, United States, serving the Santa Maria—Lompoc area. The station is owned by El Sembrador Ministries, Inc., and is part of its ESNE Radio Spanish-language Catholic radio network. Previous to ESNE's acquisition of the station in 2024, it broadcast a youth-targeted Christian rock format, relaying the signal of WUFM in Columbus, Ohio.
History
The radio station started as the idea of former youth pastor Lenny Harris of Trinity Church of the Nazarene in Lompoc, California, who went on to become the station's general manager. The congregation raised $50,000 and took seven years to get its application approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
KRQZ was first signed on September 3, 2000. The station began airing the Christian rock format of the nationally syndicated Radio U network, originating from WUFM in Columbus, Ohio, with some local DJs. It was the first affiliate of Radio U. In addition to network programming, the station also broadcast local studio productions. The format gave teenagers and young adults locally to gain experience as DJs, producers, and engineers.
Initially, KRQZ transmitted from an antenna on the church steeple, in the shadow of a cross.
The public source identifies “KRQZ” as radio station in Lompoc, California. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around KRQZ, radio and station.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6337039. Authority coordinates are 34.836, -120.402. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2000.
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This entry incorporates text from “KRQZ” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.