KSPC

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KSPC

City of license	Claremont, California
Broadcast area	Riverside-San Bernardino, California
Branding	The Space
Slogan	Underground Alternative Radio
Frequency	88.7 (MHz)
First air date	February 12, 1956
Format	Freeform
ERP	400 watts
HAAT	21 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	52922
Transmitter coordinates	34°5′51″N 117°42′35″W / 34.09750°N 117.70972°W / 34.09750; -117.70972
Callsign meaning	Originally K Students of Pomona College. Now, affiliated with the entire Claremont Colleges, it is K SPaCe.
Owner	Pomona College
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	kspc.org

KSPC is a non-commercial college and community radio station based in Claremont, California, US broadcasting at 88.7 MHz on the FM band and streaming online. KSPC is funded by the Student Associations of the Claremont Colleges, particularly Pomona College's ASPC.

Programming

KSPC's music programming is divided into general blocks by genre: Underground, Jazz, Classical, Americana, Polycultural/World music, Electronic music and Hip-hop. The station is also home to a variety of eclectic specialty shows highlighting niche genres, including soul, polka, reggae, film soundtracks and children's music. KSPC programming also includes news, public affairs, talk and sports coverage.

The station's programming philosophy is geared toward supporting local and independent content.

History

The station's first broadcast occurred on February 12, 1956, on the campus of Pomona College. Station manager Ron McDonald and program director Terry Drinkwater launched the station with an anonymous donation of $4,000. In his inaugural address, McDonald laid out the station's mission: “We don’t feel that it is the purpose of KSPC merely to duplicate programming already available on other radio stations, but rather to provide our listeners with a desirable type of programming not readily available in the area.”

KSPC was located in Pomona College's Replica House from 1956 until the mid-1970s, when the station received a major anonymous donation and constructed upgraded studios in the basement of Pomona's Thatcher Music Building. It remains there today.

Support and Supporters

KSPC is an active organization at the Claremont Colleges, and often works in cooperation with other students groups in support of social events, speakers, and special opportunities. In the past, KSPC has either supported or been supported by (or both) the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC), The Pitzer Senate, The Student Life newspaper, the Women's Union, and the Pomona college organic farm.

Sports Broadcasting

The sports broadcasting department of KSPC was started in 1981 when the FCC suggested that the station needed to expand its community based programming. Geoff Willis ('83) sat in the stands for a pre-season Pomona Pitzer women's basketball game and created an audition tape by doing play-by-play into a small hand held dictaphone. KSPC began broadcasting home basketball games for both Men's and Women's Pomona Pitzer basketball games during the 1981-1982 season including the women's team's remarkable run to the NCAA Division III Final Four. James Timmerman ('82) covered the play-by-play while Willis provided color commentary. After the Sagehen's advanced to the Final Four with a thrilling 62-53 overtime victory over Scranton (http://www.d3hoops.com/archives/women/1982), a frantic fundraising effort allowed the embryonic sports broadcasting department to travel to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to provide its first remote sports broadcast live from the Final Four. KSPC covered both the Final Four game and the consolation game. Of historical interest was that the only two electronic media covering the 1982 Women's Division III Final Four Basketball Tournament were KSPC and a very young ESPN. Also of significance in its first season of existence, KSPC's sport's broadcasting department aired Willis' pre-game interview of Pomona Pitzer Men's Head Basketball Coach Gregg Popovich - the first radio interview ever given by Coach Popovich as a head coach at any level. Popovich went on to win four NBA titles as the Head Coach of the San Antonio Spurs.

In the fall of 1982, KSPC began broadcasting home Sagehen football games. Later that year, KSPC expanded its basketball coverage to add league away games as well as full home coverage for both the men's and women's basketball games. Willis took over the play-by-play duties with a rotating series of color commentators. When the women's basketball team qualified for the Western Regionals, KSPC travelled to Moorhead Minnesota to broadcast two games from the campus of the Concordia College "Lady Cobbers." In addition, during the fall of 1982 KSPC began broadcasting a weekly sports talk/reporting show and was able to broadcast live interviews with Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda, Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and other local sports figures.

Trivia

In late 1962 and early 1963 Frank Zappa hosted "The Uncle Frankie Show" which ran Saturday Nights from 11PM-1AM. Zappa was a Pomona College student for perhaps a year, studying under award-winning ASCAP composer Karl Kohn. (Kohn is in the liner credits in _Freak Out!_) The program was usually pre-recorded by Zappa at his Rancho Cucamonga, CA recording facility, Studio Z. A few highlights from these tapes have appeared on authorized Zappa archival releases, including: The Lost Episodes; The Mystery Disk; and Joe's Xmas Message. Zappa later appeared on the station as a guest on various KSPC programs in the late 1960s. One recording currently floating within the underground tape market consists of Frank playing his favorite R&B songs, explaining the difficulties within his band, The Mothers of Invention, and repeatedly dedicating the sound of a skipping record to people such as "Ron and Nancy Reagan," record producer Art Laboe, and numerous friends and family.

On November 5, 1979, The Ramones played a concert at McKenna Hall at Claremont Men's College as part of KSPC's highly successful new wave/punk concert series that year. KSPC on-air personality Huge Bonair somehow persuaded the rising punk stars to come into the studio for an interview. A friend and Beckett Hall dorm-mate of Bonair's was asked to transport The Ramones to the studio in his classic '67 Ford Mustang, but with a decision regretted to this day, the anonymous friend declined the opportunity because he was concerned the band members might trash his car. His concerns, however, might not have been entirely unwarranted.

When the band got into the studio after Bonair personally chauffeured them in his Mercury Capri, the rebellious musicians from New York City immediately began to mock and shatter Bonair's hand-crafted disco ashtrays and clocks, which the entrepreneurial DJ had proudly created from reclaimed disco albums.

Bonair's disorienting evening with The Ramones caused the stalwart waxmaster to take a brief leave of absence, during which he enlisted a new act, "Sid, Jim and The Old Man", to take over his show without management approval. The irreverent trio immediately ran afoul of FCC regulations and were banned from the studio. In retaliation, the unrepentant triumvirate mercilessly harassed other KSPC DJ's for several nights by posing as listeners calling in for questions. Their mundane discussions would quickly and unexpectedly turn into shocking rants about pirates, FCC violations, midgets in Wesson oil, and other such offensive matters. The true identities of these three unauthorized on-air replacements and their little-discussed one-night stand with KSPC is still shrouded in mystery.

External links

KSPC Claremont 88.7 FM website

Query the FCC's FM station database for KSPC

Radio-Locator information on KSPC

v t e Radio stations in the Riverside/San Bernardino market

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.3 88.7 88.9 89.1 89.7 90.1 91.9 92.9 93.5 94.3 94.5 95.1 96.1 96.3 96.7 97.5 98.1 98.3 99.1 99.9 100.9 101.3 101.7 103.3 103.9 104.7 105.5 105.7 106.9 ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KRPE-LP/Rel)

By AM frequency	590 1050 1240 1290 1350 1370 1410 1440 1490 1510 1570 1670

By callsign	K251AH K252BF K295AI KACE KAEH KATY-FM KCAA KCAL KCAL-FM KCXX KDEY-FM KEZY KFNY KFRG KGGI KGIC-LP KHPY KJVA-LP KKDD KLRD KLYY KMET KMYT KOLA KQIE KRCV KRQB KSDW KSGN KSPA KSPC KTDD KTIE KTMQ KUCR KUOR KVCR KWRM KXFG KXRS KXSB

California radio markets Bakersfield Chico Fresno Los Angeles Merced Modesto Oxnard-Ventura Palm Springs Redding Riverside/San Bernardino Sacramento San Diego San Francisco/Oakland San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Santa Cruz/Salinas/Monterey Santa Maria-Lompoc Santa Rosa Stockton Victor Valley Visalia-Tulare-Hanford Other California radio regions Barstow Bishop Crescent City Diablo Valley High Desert/Eastern Sierra Eureka Fort Bragg-Ukiah Gilroy/Hollister Imperial Valley Marysville/Yuba City Needles Red Bluff Susanville/Sierra Nevada Tri-Valley Yreka See also List of radio stations in California

v t e Radio stations in the Los Angeles market

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 88.7 88.7 88.9 88.9 89.3 89.9 90.1 90.7 91.5 92.3 93.1 93.5 93.9 94.3 94.7 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 Orange County 88.5 88.9 90.1 92.7 94.3 95.9 96.7 103.1 106.3 107.9

By AM frequency	570 590 600 640² 670 710 740 760 790 830 870 900 930 980 1020 1070² 1110 1150 1190 1220 1230 1240 1250 1260 1280 1290 1300 1330 1350 1370 1390 1410 1430 1440 1460 1500 1510 1540 1560 1570 1580 1600 1650 1670 Orange County 830 1190 1480

NOAA WX Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.525 162.550

Digital Radio	640 980 1070 1110 88.1-1 88.1-2 88.1-3 88.5-1 88.5-2 89.3-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 91.5-1 92.3-1 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.9-1 94.7-1 94.7-2 94.7-3 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.7-1 97.1-1 97.1-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.7-1 102.7-2 103.1-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 103.5-1 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.1-3 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.9-1 107.9-2

By callsign	KABC KAMP-FM KAHZ KALI KALI-FM KAZN KBIG KBPK KBRT KBUE KBUA KCAA KCAL KCBS-FM KCRW KCSN KDAY KDIS KDLD KDLD KEIB KEZY KFI KFMB KFNY KFRN KFSH-FM KFWB KGBN KHHT KHJ KHPY KHTS KIEV KIIS-FM KIRN KISL KJLH KKDD KKGO KKJZ KKLA-FM KLAA KLAC KLAX-FM KLOS KLTX KLVE KMPC KMRB KMZT KNX² KOGO KOST KPCC KPFK KPRO KPWR KRCD KRCV KRLA KROQ-FM KRTH KSAK KSBR KSCA KSPA KSPC KSPN KSSE KSWD KTDD KTIE KTLW KTNQ KTWV KTYM KUCI KUSC KVNR KWIZ KWKW KWO37 KWRM KWVE-FM KXLU KXOL-FM KXOS KXSC KYLA KYPA KYSR WWG21 WNG584 WZ2505

Defunct	KACD/KBCD KACE KBET KEDG KFAC KIBB KIQQ KJLH KKBT KKDJ KKHR KMET KMJR/KNJR KMPC KNAC KNHS KNOB KNX-FM KODJ KPPC KQLZ KRBV KSKQ KSKQ-FM KUTE KWST-FM KFSG KZAB/KZBA KZLA-FM KIEV KPOL KTZN KXED KXMG KYMS

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 222 Sirius Channel 150 California radio markets Bakersfield Chico Fresno Los Angeles Merced Modesto Oxnard-Ventura Palm Springs Redding Riverside/San Bernardino Sacramento San Diego San Francisco/Oakland San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Santa Cruz/Salinas/Monterey Santa Maria-Lompoc Santa Rosa Stockton Victor Valley Visalia-Tulare-Hanford Other California radio regions Barstow Bishop Crescent City Diablo Valley High Desert/Eastern Sierra Eureka Fort Bragg-Ukiah Gilroy/Hollister Imperial Valley Marysville/Yuba City Needles Red Bluff Susanville/Sierra Nevada Tri-Valley Yreka See also List of radio stations in California ¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (KSFV-CA/Religious) ² Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage.

v t e Modern rock radio stations in the state of California

By frequency	88.7 90.5 92.9 94.1 94.7 94.9 96.7 98.7 100.1 103.1 103.9 104.1 105.3 106.1 106.7

By callsign	KBZT KCXX KFRR KITS KJEE KKDO KKZQ KNOB KOSO KRAB KROQ-FM KSLG-FM KSPC KSRY KVHS KYSR

By city	Bakersfield Claremont Concord Fair Oaks Healdsburg Hydesville Los Angeles Montecito Pasadena San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco Tehachapi Tehachapi Woodlake

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California See also active rock classic rock mainstream rock modern rock

v t e California college radio stations

KALX (University of California - Berkeley) KCPR (Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo) KCR (San Diego State University) KCRH (Chabot College) KDVS (University of California - Davis) KCSS (California State University Stanislaus) KCSB (University of California - Santa Barbara) KFJC (Foothill College) KFSR (California State University - Fresno) KKSM (Palomar Community College) KOHL (Ohlone College) KSAK (Mount San Antonio Community College) KSBR (Saddleback College) KSCU (Santa Clara University) KSDT (University of California - San Diego) KSMC (St. Mary's College) KSPC (Pomona College) KSSU (California State University - Sacramento) KUCI (University of California - Irvine) KUCR (University of California - Riverside) KUSF (University of San Francisco) KXLU (Loyola Marymount University) KXSC (University of Southern California) KZSC (University of California - Santa Cruz) KZSU (Stanford University)

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California

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