KDFC-FM
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| KDFC | |
| City of license | San Francisco, California |
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| Broadcast area | San Francisco Bay Area |
| Frequency | 102.1 MHz (Also on HD Radio) |
| Format | Classical music |
| ERP | 33,000 watts |
| HAAT | 319 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65486 |
| Owner | Entercom Communications |
| Sister stations | KOIT-FM, KBWF |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.kdfc.com |
KDFC is a commercial radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area that broadcasts classical music on 102.1 MHz FM. KDFC is the radio home of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera. As of Winter 2007, KDFC ranked among the top 3 Bay Area radio stations (#2 music station), and is the most popular classical station in the U.S.
KDFC broadcasts classical music 24-hours a day, and morning drive hours also features short news and traffic updates. Programming features include: The Big One at 1; The Island of Sanity at 2pm and 7pm; The CD of the Week; and the Classical Giant at 10pm. The San Francisco Symphony airs Tuesday nights at 8pm.
KDFC's self-described "casual, comfortable" approach to the classical format includes special programming and promotions such as The KDFC World Tour (the music of a different country, every hour); History on Shuffle; (fantasy iPod sets of famous people through history); the KDFC Classical Star Search talent contest; and KDFC in the Clubs Month, with live classical concerts in nightclubs.
In addition to FM and SHOUTcast MP3 streaming, KDFC -- the first radio station in the country to broadcasts in digital HD Radio -- offers a secondary HD Radio channel, KDFC-2, featuring longer classical pieces and vocal works, without commercials.
A multiple winner of the National Association of Broadcaster's top award for public service, KDFC is an active partner to arts groups and an active advocate for music education. Proceeds from the station's annual CD sampler, and the annual 'Music Educator of the Year' support and celebrate public school music programs.
KDFC transmits its signal from Mount Beacon atop the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, California. Founded in 1946 by Ed Davis, it has had the same format longer than any other Bay Area radio station — 61 years as of 2007. For many years the programming, which was largely automated after 1976, was simulcast on KIBE, a daytime-only 5 kW AM station in Palo Alto, California that began broadcasting in 1949 from a transmitter near the western approach to the Dumbarton Bridge and is now KNTS, a news-talk station.
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[edit] On Air Personalities
- Rik Malone
- Dianne Nicolini
- Hoyt Smith
- Betsy O'Conner
- John Evans
[edit] Controversy
In January 2005, a national controversy erupted when KDFC refused to sell advertising to the gay dating service "8 Guys Out," while taking advertisements for the heterosexual dating service "Table for Six". Speculation was that since KDFC's then-owner, Bonneville International Corporation, was a Mormon-controlled company, the church connection led to the advertising ban[1]. In this light, the policy of then-owner Bonneville did not allow advertising for liquor, lotteries, nor casinos.
[edit] Change of ownership in 2007
On 2007-01-18, Bonneville signed an agreement with Entercom Communications Corporation to trade three San Francisco stations — KOIT, KMAX, and KDFC — for three Entercom stations in Seattle, Washington and four in Cincinnati, Ohio. Entercom officially took ownership of KDFC in March of 2008.
[edit] External links
- Classical 102.1 KDFC
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KDFC
- Radio Locator information on KDFC
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KDFC
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