KJAQ

KJAQ (96.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Seattle, Washington. KJAQ airs an adult hits music format branded as "Jack FM". It is owned by iHeartMedia. The studios and offices are in the Belltown neighborhood northwest of Downtown Seattle. The station's transmitter is on Tiger Mountain in Issaquah. KJAQ broadcasts in the HD Radio format. The HD-2 subchannel carries an alternative rock format and HD-3 simulcasts conservative talk KPTR, also owned by iHeart.

The station signed on the air in 1959 as KLSN. It was a classical music station broadcasting from the University Village Shopping Center, owned by a company called "Sight and Sound."

In 1973, the station was acquired by Carl-Del, Inc., which also owned KYAC (1460 AM, now KARR), with the FM flipping to a simulcast of the AM station's R&B format, and changed call letters to KYAC-FM. The stations used the slogan "The Soul of the Sound," referring to Puget Sound.

In February 1977, after O'Day Broadcasting bought the station, the call letters switched to KYYX. It carried a Top 40 format.

In late 1982, the station shifted to new wave music. The station was called "96.5 The Wave" and featured radio personalities Mike "Beaver" Bell, Damien, Stephen Rabow, John Langan, and Van Johnson. The station's moniker was "The Rock of The 80s."

In December 1983, Madison Park Broadcasting acquired KYYX.

On March 26, 1984, Madison Park announced that the station would change formats within a few months because of poor ratings and revenue. On May 13, after playing "Radio, Radio" by Elvis Costello, KYYX signed off with a montage of station identifications and two customized songs based on "KYYX" for 5 minutes. After going dark for three weeks, the station would then flip to soft adult contemporary as KKMI.

In December 1984, Madison Park sold the station to Behan, who shifted the format to "Quality Rock KQ-96", KQKT, in May 1985. Shamrock Broadcasting bought the station in the Fall of 1986.