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KSFH (87.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Active Rock format. Licensed to Mountain View, California, USA, the station serves the San Jose area. The station is currently owned by St. Francis High School of Mountain View.[1] KSFH is run completely by the students at Saint Francis High School, and broadcasts a wide range of music. The radio station is available in all of Mountain View, most of Los Altos, and the northern part of San Jose. The station also broadcasts home football, basketball, and baseball games.
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KSFH originally used 90.5 MHz before moving to 88.1 in 1982. KSFH moved to 87.9 MHz in 1999. The application to move to 87.9 was applied for on August 17, 1998 and granted in 1999. A license to cover was issued on October 9, 2001.
In the 1970s, KSFH broadcast from two rooms adjacent to the Boy's Gymnasium. The signal was so weak, it was joked that once you left the parking lot, you lost the signal. Patients in nearby El Camino Hospital (diagonally bordering the campus, separated by the football field) would call in and make requests. The format in that decade was Album Oriented Rock, emphasizing Jethro Tull, Yes, Led Zeppelin, and other major rock groups of the era. Despite its weak signal, Music Director Jeff McCallion successfully negotiated with several record labels (A&M among them) to provide free, promotional records for the station to play. This was a rare benefit for a high school radio station. Many of the stations' student disc jockeys went on to work at KFJC -- the Foothill College radio station -- after high school. Currently Saint Francis is one of the few schools lucky enough to have and use a 30 foot tall radio antenna that broadcasts daily
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