106.5 FM  ·  780 AM

Announcement · July 2026

The first radio station
with an MCP server.

KAZM is opening its live data to every AI assistant on earth — now playing, fire restrictions, road conditions, emergency alerts, and more, queryable in real time. No other station has done this.

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Background

How a mountain radio station got ahead of the networks

When most people think about a radio station’s technology, they picture a mixing board, a transmitter tower, maybe a streaming player on the website. KAZM has all of that. But it also runs something unusual for a small-market station: a live data infrastructure that’s been quietly powering one of the most feature-rich independent radio websites in the country.

Fire restriction levels from the Coconino National Forest, refreshed every six hours. Road conditions pulled from ADOT’s live feeds. Sedona weather straight from National Weather Service coordinates at the transmitter site. Concert tour dates for every artist in rotation, deduplicated and verified. A 14-day rewind archive, block by block. A song history going back to October 2023 that can answer what was playing at any minute since then.

All of that already exists. The MCP server simply opens a door into it.

The Technology

What MCP is, in plain terms

Model Context Protocol is Anthropic’s open standard for connecting AI assistants to live data and tools. Think of it as a USB port — but for knowledge. When an AI assistant needs real-world information to answer a question, it queries an MCP server. The server responds. The AI tells you, with the source intact.

“Right now, if you ask an AI ‘what are the fire restrictions in Sedona today?’ it either guesses, searches, or admits it doesn’t know. With KAZM’s MCP server, it knows.”

The protocol is model-agnostic and already supported by Claude and ChatGPT, with adoption moving fast across the AI ecosystem. A station that has an MCP server today is positioned the way a station with a strong website was positioned in 2002 — early enough that being there matters.

What’s Exposed

45 live tools, all real data

Every tool reads from a live source. Nothing is cached longer than the underlying data warrants. Nothing is fabricated.

On Air 8 tools
get_now_playing() Current song, artist, and album from broadcast automation — the actual air signal, not a guess.
get_listener_count() How many people are tuned in right now, across all three streams.
search_song_history(date, time) What was playing at any hour since October 2023, from the station’s own broadcast logs.
get_stream_url() The direct listen-live URL — so an AI can hand someone a working link, not a homepage.
get_show_schedule() Current and upcoming on-air show lineup — who’s on, when, and what the show is about.
get_rewind(date?) 14-day broadcast archive, block by block — what ran on any hour of any recent day.
search_song_request_library(query) Search the station’s requestable song library by title or artist name.
submit_song_request(query)Live AI can actually queue a song for broadcast on KAZM — live, bidirectional. First-of-its-kind for radio.
Local Conditions 5 tools
get_fire_restrictions() Current Coconino National Forest fire level, live from the Forest Service — not a cached file.
get_weather() Conditions at the Sedona transmitter site from the National Weather Service — not a stock forecast.
get_road_conditions() 89A, Oak Creek Canyon, and I-17 from ADOT live camera and incident feeds via AZ511.
get_emergency_alerts(severity?) Active EAS alerts for Yavapai and Coconino counties — weather emergencies, evacuations, Amber Alerts — live from NWS.
get_air_quality() US AQI, PM2.5, PM10, ozone, UV index for Sedona from Open-Meteo. Tracks wildfire smoke in real time.
Sedona Life 13 tools
get_concerts(artist?, location?) Verified, deduplicated tour dates for every artist in KAZM’s rotation — Southwest-first.
get_events() Sedona community and library events, fetched from local sources and updated daily.
get_movies() What’s playing at theaters near Sedona — current showtimes from local cinema listings.
get_jeep_trails() Sedona-area 4x4 trails with difficulty ratings and route data — for the off-road crowd.
get_sports_scores(team?) Current scores for Cardinals, Suns, D-backs, Mercury, ASU, Arizona Wildcats, NAU, and UFC events.
get_sun_times(date?) Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, golden hour, and next solstice or equinox for the KAZM transmitter site.
get_moon_phase(date?) Tonight's moon phase, illumination %, and 7-day lunar calendar for Sedona — perfect for stargazers.
get_nws_alerts() Active NWS weather watches, warnings, and advisories for Yavapai County. Empty when skies are clear.
get_oak_creek_levels() Oak Creek stream level and discharge from the USGS Sedona gauge — safe for wading or approaching flood stage.
get_wildfire_perimeters() Active wildfires within ~150 miles of Sedona from NIFC — name, acreage, containment %, distance from KAZM.
get_visitor_info(topic?) Practical Sedona visitor guide — Red Rock Pass, park hours and fees, top attractions, best seasons, and local tips.
get_red_rock_pass(topic?) New Complete Red Rock Pass guide — all 19 required sites, current fees ($5 day/$15 week/$20 year), accepted passes (America the Beautiful, Senior, Military), where to buy, shuttle schedules, and Soldier Pass permit details.
get_hiking_trails(trail?, difficulty?) New 15 Sedona hiking trails with distance, elevation gain, difficulty, trailhead location, shuttle/permit requirements, vortex flags, and pro tips. Filterable by trail name or difficulty (easy/moderate/strenuous).
Listener Profiles 6 tools New
get_or_create_listener(listener_id?, email?, name?, language?, location?, genres?) New Zero-friction entry point. Pass whatever you know — a saved listener_id, an email, or just a name. Returns the existing profile or silently creates one in a single call. No registration step. No email required. The AI saves the listener_id and the station remembers you forever.
register_listener(name, language?, location?, genres?) New Create a persistent listener profile. Returns a listener_id that any AI can use across every session — name, language, location, and favorite genres remembered forever.
get_listener_profile(listener_id) New Retrieve a full listener profile — preferences, listening history, and a tip for the AI to personalize every response from language to song recommendations.
update_listener_preference(listener_id, key, value) New Update any preference — language switch for a German listener, a new favorite genre, a favorite show. Persists instantly across all future sessions.
log_listener_history(listener_id, event_type, ...) New Log what a listener heard, requested, or reacted to. The AI calls this silently in the background to build the history that makes every future session smarter.
get_personalized_content(listener_id, content_type?) New Returns a fully localized KAZM experience — greeting in the listener's language (English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese), recommendations from their history, and a personalized station brief.
The Vibe 13 tools
get_horoscope(sign?) Daily horoscope for all 12 signs, served from KAZM’s own data.
get_schumann_resonance() Real-time Schumann resonance readings from global monitoring stations — the Earth’s own frequency.
get_local_news_headlines() Latest Sedona & Verde Valley news live from the Red Rock News and Verde Independent RSS feeds.
get_sound_session(goal?) Recommends a binaural or tonal session — Delta Drift, Theta Gate, Alpha Clear, or the KAZM harmonic stack — based on goal or time of day.
get_chakra_frequencies(chakra?) All seven chakras with their healing frequencies, notes, colors, and affirmations — linked to the KAZM singing bowl experience.
get_solfeggio(hz?) Nine-tone Solfeggio scale (174–963 Hz) with each frequency’s traditional healing properties and use cases.
get_vortex_guide(site?) Full guide to Sedona's 4 energy vortex sites — Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Airport Mesa, Boynton Canyon. Directions, hiking info, and energy type.
get_artist_info(artist?) Biography, genre tags, and album discography for the current KAZM artist or any named artist from MusicBrainz.
get_day_in_music_history(date?) Notable music events, birthdays, and milestones that happened on this day in history — great for on-air trivia.
get_stargazing_conditions(date?) Tonight's darkness window, moon interference rating, Milky Way visibility status, and best astrophotography sites in Sedona.
get_chakra_guide(chakra?) New Full guide to all seven chakras — Sanskrit name, Solfeggio Hz, bija mantra, crystals, essential oils, yoga pose, and the Sedona vortex tied to each energy center.
get_tarot_card(spread?, card_name?) New Full 78-card Rider-Waite deck. Daily card of the day over Sedona (same for all listeners until midnight MST), single draw, past/present/future spread, or look up any card by name.
get_photography_guide(location?) Real-time golden hour / blue hour times, current light score, shooting tips, and camera settings for 6 iconic Sedona locations.
0 Other radio stations
with MCP servers
45 Live tools
and growing
52 Years KAZM has been
on the mountain
2023 Song log goes back to
October of that year
Why It Matters

Search indexes what you publish.
AI queries what you make available.

These are not the same thing, and the distinction will matter more with every passing year.

A page on a website gets discovered when someone searches for it. An MCP tool gets called when an AI needs it — which is increasingly whenever anyone asks a question. The shift from “I’ll Google it” to “I’ll ask Claude” is already in progress, and most media organizations haven’t thought about what that means for their distribution.

No other radio station — not iHeart, not NPR, not the big-market FM flagships with full engineering teams — has done this. That’s not an indictment of them. It’s an opportunity for KAZM. Being first in a distribution channel has historically been worth more than being second with a bigger budget.

And there’s a specifically local dimension here. When an AI helps someone plan a Sedona trip, or check road conditions before heading up Oak Creek Canyon, or ask about fire restrictions before lighting a campfire — KAZM is the answer. Real local data, properly attributed, in AI conversations instead of aggregator sites that scraped it from somewhere else.

Add KAZM to your AI assistant

Do this once and your AI can answer questions like “What’s playing on KAZM?” or “Are there fires near Sedona today?” with live, real answers. Pick your app below.

Claude Desktop

You need the Claude Desktop app on your Mac or Windows PC (not the website — the actual app). Get it free here if you don’t have it yet. Then click the button below — Claude opens, asks you to confirm, and you’re done. After that, just ask Claude anything about KAZM and it will have live answers.

Add to Claude Desktop
Then try it — ask Claude: “What song is playing on KAZM right now?” or “Are there any fire restrictions near Sedona?”

KAZM has been broadcasting from the mountain since 1974. The signal just got a lot farther.