KPEZ

KPEZ, known on-air as "102.3 The Beat", is a radio station licensed to and serving Austin, Texas, operating a Rhythmic Contemporary format. The station broadcasts with an ERP of 26,000 watts from a transmitter site near Sunset Valley, TX and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. It shares studios with four other sister stations in the Penn Field complex in the South Congress district of south central Austin within walking distance of St. Edward's University; it has broadcast here since 2002 after moving from a downtown Austin office building off of Barton Springs Road. "The Beat," long synonymous with the Hip Hop/R&B music genre under rhythmic and mainstream urban formats, is in its fifth incarnation in the Austin region. It originated on 104.3 in 1998, first as KQBT, and later KXBT; it later moved to 104.9 before switching formats entirely in 2008. Clear Channel picked up the branding one year later where it aired on KFMK before the format swap with KPEZ in 2010.