KSJS

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KSJS
Broadcast area	San Jose, California
Frequency	90.5 FM MHz
Format	Variety/College Radio
ERP	1,500 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	San Jose State University
Owner	San Jose State University
Website	www.ksjs.com

KSJS (90.5 MHz) is a college radio station that broadcasts 24 hours a day from the campus of San Jose State University in San Jose, California, USA. It went on the air on February 11, 1963. Studios were located in the Drama Building, easily accessible to Broadcasting Majors. Originally, its transmitting antenna was installed atop the Walquist Library Building on campus, but broadcasting range was adversely affected due to the nearby Bank of America Building's superior height. Today, however, its transmitter atop Coyote Peak broadcasts 1500 watts, allowing the station to be heard by the entire Santa Clara Valley and much of the San Francisco Peninsula. Currently, the station features five musical formats: urban, electronic, subversive rock, rock en espanol, and jazz. It also has a variety of specialty broadcasting, including "Radio Ethiopia," "Mecca One," "Celluloid Dreams," and the "Disco Funk Explosion" The station is almost entirely student-run, and it was one of the first radio stations in the nation to stream its programming over the internet.

From the 1970s through the early 1980s, KSJS was heavily-formatted, with students learning to "talk up" records, play public service announcement spots at appropriate times and even "backtime" songs to a top-of-the-hour newscast from Mutual News. In recent years, however, the station has taken on more of a free-form approach. In addition to its over-the-air audience, KSJS enjoys a sizable internet streaming audience.

KSJS has produced many notable alumni who have gone on to success in commercial broadcasting. Notable alums include Kim Vestal, a longtime San Jose radio star on stations including KARA-FM and KBAY-FM...Craig Bowers, production director at KGO-AM in San Francisco...Steve Scott, drivetime news anchor at WCBS-AM in New York City...Mark Nieto news and traffic anchor at KFRC-FM in San Francisco...and Tony Kovaleski, an investigative TV reporter at KMGH-TV in Denver.

[edit] External link

• http://www.ksjs.org/