KAZN AM1300 is America 's first and only 24-hour free-access Chinese language radio station. Established in February 1984, it was originally called K-Asian, devoting itself to the pan-Asian population in Southern California by broadcasting in-language format. During its early years, K-Asian provided programming in eight different Asian languages: Korean, Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin, Polynesian, Tagalog (Filipino), Thai and Vietnamese.In Southern California alone, K-Asian's success spurred the growth of two 24-hour Korean radio stations (both of which originally began broadcast on K-Asian), a predominately Vietnamese radio station and a rash of other Asian language stations. Simply put, K-Asian is "the Father of Asian Radio." Since September 1993, K-Asian launched on to create America 's first and only 24-hour Chinese radio station...Radio Chinese! In July 1998 Multicultural Broadcasting Inc. incorporated KAZN into its multiple stations.

Radio Chinese was created to serve Southern California,s diverse Chinese community, the largest Asian population - over a quarter of a million strong - in the Los Angeles market. With experienced broadcasters from Taiwan , Mainland China , Hong Kong and the US , Radio Chinese evolved to becoming America 's first and only 24-hour free access Mandarin Chinese language radio station. More importantly, Radio Chinese is the only Asian radio station that owns and operates its own broadcast facilities unlike other Asian programmers that buy airtime from their stations.