KDON

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KDON
Broadcast area	Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz, California
Branding	102.5 K-Don
Frequency	102.5 FM MHz
Format	Rhythmic Top 40
ERP	15,000 watts
Class	B
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	102.5 KDON

KDON (102.5 FM) is a Rhythmic Top 40 station licensed to Salinas, California. They are owned by Clear Channel Communications .

Contents 1 History 2 Current Air Lineup 3 Daily Mixshow Lineup 4 Notable Past DJ's 5 External links

[edit] History

In its early years, this radio station was KSBW, playing middle of the road and beautiful music.

KDON became a mainstream Top 40 station in the early 1980s with no disk jockeys, in stark contrast to other Top 40 stations at the time. This may have been a gimmick at the time as the fledgling station fought to gain a foothold in the market. As the years progressed, on-air personalities were added.

The format evolved into Rhythmic Top 40 by 1988 and since then has remained one of the highest rated stations in the Monterey/Santa Cruz radio market.

In the early nineties, Mancow Muller hosted a local morning show on KDON. KDON was also the first station to feature novelty songwriter and radio enigma UFO Phil, who got his start on the Dr. Maimes morning show in 1997 and eventually became a frequent guest on syndicated shows such as Coast to Coast AM, The Ron and Fez Show and Dr. Demento. Other talent that has come out of KDON include MTV's "Lucious Liz", Art Bell from Coast To Coast AM, and many others who have gone on to bigger radio markets working the early part of their careers at KDON.

KDON currently plays mainly Hip Hop, with some Pop, and Old School influence. Its signature yearly concert "The Freestyle Explosion" is one of the biggest events in Salinas, CA each year. The station is known for its heritage, and strong signal which has been heard from King City, CA to as far north as Santa Rosa, CA. It is the strongest signal in the Monterey Market with full signal into the San Jose market, and covering many other parts of the Bay Area.

In the past few years KDON has evolved into a very successful station consistently as most of the staff who previously worked at sister station KYLD/San Francisco have brought a major market "feel" to the medium Monterey market. KDON is widely recognized by its "Phone Jack at the 50" in the morning where jocks prank call people in different character voices. They are also known for having a very active Promotions team, and Mixshow roster which consists of DJs that are at all the local clubs. Each year KDON is involved in many community events from Food Drives, Raising Money for the Relay For Life foundation, and Christmas Tree deliveries.

Notable past DJ’s include: Afro Chad AKA Chad Manes Heard Now On Channel 933, San Diego & 102.7 KIIS FM, Los Angeles.

[edit] Current Air Lineup

• 5:30a-10a: The Morning Madhouse with Sam Diggedy(OM/PD), Showbiz(AMD/Producer), Boy Toy Bobby
• 10a-2p: Nancy Nevarez
• 2p-6p: Eric "The Funky 1" (APD/MD)
• 6p-10p: Visa On The Radio

[edit] Daily Mixshow Lineup

Mix Name	DJ	Time
Wake Dat Ass Mix	DJ Classic	5:30 AM - 6:00 AM
Mad Mix at 9	Brotha Reese	9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Lunchbox Quickmix	Miss DJ Tease	12 Noon - 12:30 PM
5 O'Clock Gridlock	D-Roc	5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
9 O'Clock Jumpoff	DJ Remedy	9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

[edit] Notable Past DJ's

• Mancow Muller (Syndication)
• Luscious Liz (Power 106/MTV)
• Renee Taylor

[edit] External links

• 102.5 KDON's website

• Query the FCC's FM station database for KDON

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