Media in San Jose, California
Encyclopedia
San Jose, California
is served by San Francisco Bay Area
media. The following lists include the greater Bay Area media.
newspapers, the daily San Jose Mercury News
, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle
and the weekly alternative Metro Silicon Valley, East Bay Express
, San Francisco Bay Guardian
, and SF Weekly
, San Jose is served by a variety of other Bay Area print media. The bilingual weeklies "Alianza Metropolitan News", La Oferta and El-Observador have articles and advertisements in both English and Spanish. The glossy, monthly San Jose Magazine focuses more on the people and culture of San Jose than on "hard news", but has won awards for its news coverage from the Bay Area's most prestigious media organization, the Peninsula Press Club.
s, but in 1909 Charles D. Herrold started the world's first radio broadcasting station on the corner of First and San Fernando streets in San Jose, as "Station FN". The station eventually became today's San Francisco
's KCBS
.
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
is served by San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
media. The following lists include the greater Bay Area media.
Print media
In addition to the major English-languageEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
newspapers, the daily San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News
The San Jose Mercury News is a daily newspaper in San Jose, California. On its web site, however, it calls itself Silicon Valley Mercury News. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group...
, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
and the weekly alternative Metro Silicon Valley, East Bay Express
East Bay Express
The East Bay Express is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland, and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area...
, San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay Guardian
The San Francisco Bay Guardian is a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California. The paper is owned mostly by its publisher, Bruce B...
, and SF Weekly
SF Weekly
SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California. The newspaper, distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area every Wednesday, is published by Village Voice Media, a 16-paper alt weekly newspaper chain that also includes the New York City Village Voice and the Los...
, San Jose is served by a variety of other Bay Area print media. The bilingual weeklies "Alianza Metropolitan News", La Oferta and El-Observador have articles and advertisements in both English and Spanish. The glossy, monthly San Jose Magazine focuses more on the people and culture of San Jose than on "hard news", but has won awards for its news coverage from the Bay Area's most prestigious media organization, the Peninsula Press Club.
Television
- ATSC (digital televisionDigital televisionDigital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
)- Channel 2: KTVUKTVUKTVU, virtual channel 2 , is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to Oakland, California, the station has been owned by Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the...
- FoxFox Broadcasting CompanyFox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
, "Fox 2" - Channel 4: KRON - My Network TV
- Channel 5: KPIX - CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, "CBS 5" - Channel 7: KGOKGO-TVKGO-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, based in San Francisco, California...
- ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, "ABC 7" - Channel 9: KQED - PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
- Channel 11: KNTVKNTVKNTV, channel 11, is the NBC owned-and-operated television station in the Bay Area market. It is licensed to San Jose, with its transmitter located on San Bruno Mountain, just south of San Francisco. It shares facilities in San Jose with NBC Universal sister station KSTS and CNBC's Silicon...
- NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, "NBC 11", originally an ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate (San Jose's first television station) - Channel 14: KDTVKDTVKDTV-DT, channel 14, is a Univision-owned and operated station in San Francisco.-History:KDTV began operation in 1975 on channel 60 as the Bay Area's first exclusively Spanish-language TV station. The station was owned by a local group headed by Reynold Anselmo and affiliated with the Spanish...
- UnivisionUnivisionUnivision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva... - Channel 20: KOFY - independent, "KOFY TV20"
- Channel 26: KTSFKTSFKTSF is an independent television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Although licensed to San Francisco, the station's studio building is located in south suburban Brisbane, California. It is owned by Lincoln Broadcasting Company, and broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a...
- independent - Channel 28: KFTL - Home Shopping NetworkHome Shopping NetworkHome Shopping Network or HSN began in 1977 as a 24-hour/7 day a week home shopping television network televised via cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the Philippines. HSN can also be shopped online at hsn.com...
- Channel 32: KMTP - independent
- Channel 36: KICU - independent, "Action 36, Cable 6," original studios were based in San Jose before moving in with KTVUKTVUKTVU, virtual channel 2 , is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to Oakland, California, the station has been owned by Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the...
in Oakland on ownership changes - Channel 38: KCNSKCNSKCNS is a digital television station in San Francisco, California, in the United States, owned by NRJ TV, LLC. It carries programming from the Retro Television Network on its main channel, and programming from Sino TV and Saigon TV on its subchannels. The station operates on 39 digital, covering...
- independent a service of Multicultural Television Broadcasting - Channel 44: KBCW - CWThe CW Television NetworkThe CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
, "The Bay Area's CW" - Channel 48: KSTSKSTSKSTS is the NBCUniversal owned and operated Telemundo television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market. The station is located in San Jose, California and broadcasts on digital channel 49. KSTS shares facilities with NBC sister operation KNTV. The new all-digital broadcast center was opened...
- TelemundoTelemundoTelemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision.... - Channel 54: KQEH - PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
- Channel 60: KCSMKCSM-TVKCSM-TV, virtual channel 60, is an independent, non-commercial television station located in San Mateo, California, USA. Until 2009, KCSM-TV was a PBS member station...
- independent - Channel 65: KKPXKKPXKKPX-TV, San Jose, California broadcasts on digital channel 41, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is an owned and operated affiliate of the Ion Television network.-History:...
- ION - Channel 66: KFSF - TelefuturaTeleFuturaTeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...
- Channel 68: KTLNKTLN-TVKTLN-TV is a Christian-themed TV station in San Rafael, California, broadcasting on UHF channel 47. KTLN is owned by OTA Broadcasting, LLC, a company controlled by Michael Dell; however, the station is operated under a local marketing agreement by Chicago-based Chistian Communications of...
- Total Living NetworkTotal Living NetworkTotal Living Network is a religious broadcasting channel based in Aurora, Illinois which carries a wide variety of family and ministry programs, including Ten Keys for Unlocking the Bible; Newsmakers, where leading Christian experts debate issues of interest to the Church; Inspiration Sensation, a...
- Channel 2: KTVU
Radio
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s, but in 1909 Charles D. Herrold started the world's first radio broadcasting station on the corner of First and San Fernando streets in San Jose, as "Station FN". The station eventually became today's San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
's KCBS
KCBS (AM)
KCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One. Its transmitter is located in Novato, California. KCBS currently has studios on Battery Street, where it shares the location with co-owned KPIX...
.
- AMAmplitude modulationAmplitude modulation is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave. AM works by varying the strength of the transmitted signal in relation to the information being sent...
- KSFO 560 kHz - Talk ,"Hot Talk 560 KSFO"
- KEAR 610 kHz - Religious
- KNBRKNBRKNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco, California, area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media....
680 kHz - Sports ,"KNBR 680 and 1050" - KCBSKCBS (AM)KCBS is an all-news radio station in San Francisco, California, that is a key West Coast flagship radio station of the CBS Radio Network and Westwood One. Its transmitter is located in Novato, California. KCBS currently has studios on Battery Street, where it shares the location with co-owned KPIX...
740 kHz - News CBS RadioCBS RadioCBS Radio, Inc., formerly known as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States, third behind main rival Clear Channel Communications and Cumulus Media. CBS Radio owns around 130 radio stations across the country...
,"KCBS All News 740 and 106.9" - KGOKGO (AM)KGO is a news/talk-format radio station radio with offices and studios in San Francisco, California. Unlike most other American news/talk stations, KGO originates nearly all of its own programming locally. Since 1978, KGO radio has received Arbitron's number-one ranking in the Bay Area...
810 kHz - News/Talk ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
,"KGO Newstalk 810" - KTRBKTRBKTRB ESPN Deportes 860 is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California. The station has a Spanish sports-talk format since June 27, 2011.-History:...
860 kHz - Sports ,"Xtra Sports 860" - KNEWKNEW (AM)KNEW is a radio station in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, CA, USA. The station is owned by Clear Channel. Prior to the format change, the station operated as CNET Radio, offering business and technology news 24 hours a day...
910 kHz - Talk - KKGN 960 kHz - Talk ,"The Green 960"
- KIQIKIQIKIQI is a Spanish-language radio station in San Francisco, California, USA. It is under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting. KIQI 1010 AM is now partnered up with the San Francisco Giants and they broadcast all weekend home games as well as another selected few .-External links:...
1010 kHz - Spanish a service of Multicultural Radio Broadcasting ,"Radio Unica 1010" - KTCT 1050 kHz - Sports (simulcast of KNBR) ,"KNBR 680 and 1050"
- KFAXKFAXKFAX is a radio station licensed to transmit from San Francisco, California and heard in the Bay Area. , the station is owned by Salem Communications, and programs a Christian-oriented talk-radio format.- As KJBS :...
1100 kHz - Religious - KLOK 1170 kHz - Spanish News/Talk UnivisionUnivisionUnivision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
- KDYAKDYAKDYA is a radio station licensed to Vallejo, California, but serves the San Francisco Bay Area. It broadcasts on 1190 frequency on the AM dial with an urban contemporary gospel format...
1190 kHz - Religious - KDOWKDOWKNTS is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish language Christian talk format. Licensed to Seattle, Washington, USA, it serves the Seattle metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Salem Communications....
1220 kHz - Business News/Talk - KSFB 1260 kHz - Religious ,"Catholic Radio 1260"
- KMKY 1310 kHz - Children's Radio DisneyRadio DisneyRadio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas...
,"Radio Disney AM 1310" - KZSFKZSFKZSF is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format in the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to San Jose, California, USA. The station is currently owned by Carlos A. Duharte.-History:...
1370 kHz - Spanish Oldies ,"La Kalle 1370" - KVTOKVTOKVTO is a radio station broadcasting a World Ethnic format. Licensed to Berkeley, California, USA, the station serves the San Francisco Bay Area...
1400 kHz - Chinese/Indian/Filipino/Korean - KVVNKVVNKVVN is a radio station broadcasting a Vietnamese language format. Licensed to Santa Clara, California, USA, it serves the San Francisco Bay Area...
1430 kHz - Vietnamese - KESTKESTKEST is a radio station in San Francisco, California. Most of the station's programming is foreign, such as Indian, Chinese, and other Asian languages. KEST does English-language programming during the week, usually from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., which consists of New Age Talk.KEST is owned by...
1450 kHz - Chinese/English/Indian/Japanese a service of Multicultural Radio Broadcasting - KSJXKSJXKSJX is a radio station broadcasting a Vietnamese format. Licensed to San Jose, California, the station serves the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is currently owned by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC.-Fire:...
1500 kHz - Vietnamese/Chinese Program a service of Multicultural Radio Broadcasting - KSFNKSFNKYDZ is a children's radio station located in North Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting to the Las Vegas, Nevada area on 1140 AM.-History:1140 AM was known as KRSR "The Krusher", a heavy metal-formatted station in the 1980s, whose DJ is a robotic voice similar to that of the Cylon voice used on...
1510 kHz - Chinese - KZDG 1550 kHz - Indian
- KLIVKLIVKLIV is an AM radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area based in San Jose, California. The station operates at 1590 kHz on the AM band. It is owned by Empire Broadcasting, and is headed by News and Program Director George Sampson.-Programming:...
1590 kHz - News Empire Broadcasting - KDIAKDIAKDIA is a radio station in Vallejo, California. It is a separate entity from the station at 1310 AM that held the KDIA call letters for many years. The 1640 AM frequency was licensed as part of an extension of the AM band in 1998, and adopted the abandoned KDIA call letters then.-KDIA 1310...
1640 kHz - Religious
- FMFrequency modulationIn telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...
- KSFHKSFHKSFH FM 87.9 is a student radio station broadcasting an active rock radio format. Licensed to serve Mountain View, California, USA, the station's broadcast range is the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by private school Saint Francis High School, and is completely run by its students,...
87.9 MHz - Alternative RockAlternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s... - KECGKECG-History:Construction of KECG began in 1972 in the basement of the north wing of the old El Cerrito HS.Mr Maynes woodshop built the studios and the electronics dept under Elmer Peterson installed the electronics....
88.1 MHz - El Cerrito High SchoolEl Cerrito High SchoolEl Cerrito High School is a public school in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. It is located at 540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, California 94530.-Overview:The original main school building was built in the late 1930s as a WPA project... - KQEDKQED-FMKQED-FM is an NPR-member radio station owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting in San Francisco, California.KQED-FM was founded by James Day in 1969 as the radio arm of KQED Television. The founding manager was Bernard Mayes who later went on to be Executive Vice-President of KQED TV and...
88.5 MHz - Public Radio - K205BN 88.9 MHz - Christian Rock (rebroadcast of KLVM)
- KCEAKCEAKCEA is a high school radio station in Atherton, California, USA. The station features big band and swing music, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s...
89.1 MHz - Atherton High SchoolAtherton High SchoolAtherton High School is a public school in the Highlands district of Louisville, Kentucky and is part of the Jefferson County Public School district. It opened in 1923 as J.M. Atherton High School for Girls... - KMTGKMTGKMTG is a radio station broadcasting student choice format. Licensed to San Jose, California, USA, the station serves the San Jose area. The station is currently owned by San Jose Unified School District. and operated at Pioneer High School by Pioneer High School students...
89.3 MHz - San Jose Unified School DistrictSan Jose Unified School DistrictSan Jose Unified School District is a K-12 school district in Santa Clara County, California. It serves a large portion of the city of San Jose, California with a student population of approximately 32,000.-List of schools:... - KOHLKOHLKOHL is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Hit Radio format.Licensed to Fremont, California, USA. The station is currently owned by the Ohlone Community College District and is the primary instructional facility for the Ohlone College Radio Broadcast program.-1972 to 1984:89.3 KOHL...
89.3 MHz - Ohlone CollegeOhlone CollegeOhlone College is a community college located in Fremont, California. It was established in 1965. Ohlone College is a single college, multi campus district serving the areas of Fremont, Newark, and Union City with its main campus and district office in Fremont... - KPFB 89.3 MHz - Variety (simlucast of KPFA)
- KPOOKPOOKPOO is a community radio station licensed to San Francisco, California, USA. The station is currently owned by Poor People's Radio....
89.5 MHz - Variety - KFJCKFJCKFJC is a non-commercial college radio station in Los Altos Hills, California at Foothill College, using an Variety radio format that features a broad spectrum of music styles and public affairs programming. KFJC's broadcast is 24/7 in the San Francisco Bay Area...
89.7 MHz - Foothill CollegeFoothill CollegeFoothill College is a community college located in Los Altos Hills, California and is part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. It was founded on January 15, 1957 by Founding Superintendent and President Dr. Calvin C. Flint.-History:... - KZSUKZSUKZSU is a freeform FM radio station broadcasting from the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA.KZSU broadcasts in stereo at 90.1 MHz FM with an effective radiated power of 500 watts. The station is owned by the Trustees of Stanford University and is governed by a Board of...
90.1 MHz - Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... - KUSFKUSFKUSF was a non-commercial radio station licensed to San Francisco, California and owned by the University of San Francisco. From 1963 until 2011, the station broadcast at 90.3 FM MHz....
90.3 MHz - University of San FranciscoUniversity of San FranciscoThe University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of... - K212AA 90.3 MHz - Public Radio (rebroadcast of KUSP)
- KSJSKSJSKSJS 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, with only 85 watts of power. The studio is located in Hugh Gillis Hall, easily accessible to RTVF majors...
90.5 MHz - San Jose State UniversitySan José State UniversitySan Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States... - KALXKALXKALX is a freeform FM radio station that broadcasts from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. KALX, a community- and student-run radio station licensed to the University of California, Berkeley, broadcasts in stereo with 500 watts of power...
90.7 MHz - University of California Berkeley - KCSM 91.1 MHz - Jazz College of San MateoCollege of San MateoCollege of San Mateo is a community college in San Mateo, California. It is part of the San Mateo County Community College District....
,"Jazz 91" - KKUPKKUPKKUP is a community radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Cupertino, California, United States, it serves the greater Bay Area. The station is currently owned by the Assurance Science Foundation, Inc., and is a member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters...
91.5 MHz - VarietyVariety (radio)The term variety as a radio format is loosely defined as a format that plays music across numerous genera.Freeform variety is associated with a wide range of programming including talk, sports, and music from a wide spectrum. This format is usually found on smaller, non-commercial... - KALWKALWKALW is a public radio station based in San Francisco, California. Its HD FM radio signal is broadcast over the immediate San Francisco Bay Area at 91.7 MHz, and is webcast with live streaming audio.-Background:...
91.7 MHz - Public Radio San Francisco Unified School DistrictSan Francisco Unified School DistrictSan Francisco Unified School District , established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California... - K220BV 91.9 MHz - Christian Rock (rebroadcast of KLVM)
- KSJOKSJOKSJO is a commercial radio station in San Jose, California, and broadcasts to the San Francisco Bay Area on 92.3 FM. KSJO currently airs a Chinese format branded as "92.3 KSJO".-History:...
92.3 MHz - Alternative rockAlternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
"Channel 92.3" , ClearChannel - KREV 92.7 MHz - Top 40 "92.7 The Revolution"
- KRZZKRZZKRZZ is a commercial radio station located in San Francisco, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area on 93.3 FM. KRZZ airs a regional mexican music format branded as "La Raza".-History:...
93.3 MHz - Spanish ,"La Raza 93.3" - KPFAKPFAKPFA is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15 1949, as the first Pacifica Station...
94.1 MHz - Variety - KBAYKBAYKBAY is a radio station licensed to Gilroy, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Its current format is Soft Rock It is owned by NextMedia Group along with sister station, "Mix-106.5" KEZR-FM...
94.5 MHz - Adult Contemporary music, station known as "K-BAY 94.5" - KYLD 94.9 MHz - Hip HopHip hop musicHip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
, "Wild 94.9" - KRTYKRTYKRTY is a commercial radio station located in San Jose, California, and broadcasting to the greater San Francisco Bay Area, from San Jose to Marin County, on 95.3 FM. KRTY airs a country music format.Listening Options...
95.3 MHz - CountryCountry musicCountry music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
, "San Jose HOT Country" - KGMZKGMZKKOL-FM is an oldies music formatted radio station serving Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The Salem Communications outlet broadcasts at 107.9 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW and is licensed to Aiea, Hawaii.-History:...
95.7 MHz - CountryCountry musicCountry music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
, "95.7 The Wolf" - KSQQKSQQKSQQ is a world ethnic radio station broadcasting in the Portuguese, Chinese, and Vietnamese languages. Licensed to Morgan Hill, California, USA with a translator, K277BN in San Martin, California, it serves the greater San Francisco Bay Area from North Santa Clara County to Marin County.The...
96.1 MHz - PortuguesePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
/ChineseChinese languageThe Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
/VietnameseVietnamese languageVietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
"96.1 KSQQ", - KOIT 96.5 MHz - Adult Contemporary music, "96.5 KOIT"
- KLLCKLLCKLLC is a commercial radio station located in San Francisco, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KLLC airs an Adult Top 40 music format same as KZZO in Sacramento and on 97.3 HD-2 is Chill With Alice, a Chill format channel...
97.3 MHz - Hot Adult Contemporary music, "Alice 97.3" - KFFGKFFGKFFG is an FM radio station licensed to Los Altos, California, broadcasting on 97.7 FM MHz. The 97.7 frequency simulcasts the programming of sister station KFOG...
97.7 MHz - Album Adult Alternative (Simulcast 104.5 KFOG) - KISQKISQKISQ is a radio station licensed to San Francisco that features the Urban Oldies format on the 98.1 FM frequency. It is owned by Clear Channel.- History :As KABL...
98.1 MHz - Urban ContemporaryUrban contemporaryUrban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
music, "98.1 Kiss FM" - KUFXKUFXKUFX is a classic rock-formatted radio station in San Jose, California. It is owned by Entercom Communications. The station is referred to on-air as K-FOX.On January 24, 2011, KUFX began simulcasting on KUZX 102.1 MHz in San Francisco....
98.5 MHz - classic rockClassic rockClassic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...
, ClearChannel (slogan name is "98.5 KFOX", 'The classic rock experience') - KSOL 98.9 MHz - Regional MexicanRegional MexicanRegional Mexican is a radio format for music radio, typically defined to include Banda, Ranchera, Mariachi and Norteña. It is the most popular radio format targeting Hispanic Americans in the United States....
,"Estereo 98.9" - K257BE 99.3 MHz - Christian Rock (rebroadcast of KLVM)
- KMVQ 99.7 MHz - Top 40 ,"Movin 99.7"
- KBRGKBRGKBRG is a Spanish-language station in San Jose, California. It is the oldest surviving Spanish music station in the San Francisco Bay Area, having first appeared in the 1960s or earlier as 105.3 . It moved to 104.9 in December 1983, and then to 100.3 in a three-station swap on December 31, 1997...
100.3 MHz - Spanish oldies, UnivisionUnivisionUnivision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva... - KVVZKVVZKVVZ is a radio station broadcasting a Latin Pop format. Licensed to San Rafael, California, USA, it serves the San Francisco area. The station is currently owned by Univision Radio License Corporation. Between 2001 and 2003 KVVZ was KSFB Contemporary Christian 100.7 The Bridge...
100.7 MHz - Spanish, "Viva 100.7 and 105.7" - K264AQ 100.7 MHz - Christian Rock
- K265DI 100.9 MHz - Spanish (rebroadcast of KVVZ)
- K265CV 100.9 MHz - Christian Rock
- K265CY 100.9 MHz - Christian Rock (rebroadcast of KSRI)
- KIOIKIOIKIOI FM is a radio station licensed to San Francisco, California. The Clear Channel Communications-owned station programs a Hot Adult Contemporary format.- KPEN :...
101.3 MHz - Hot Adult Contemporary music, "Star 101.3" - KDFCKDFCKDFC-FM is a non-commercial radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area that broadcasts a classical music format on 90.3 MHz FM. The station is the radio home of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera....
102.1 MHz - Classical, "Classical 102.1 KDFC" - KBLXKBLXKBLX-FM is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station that broadcasts from San Francisco. The station is licensed to Berkeley, California, and is owned by Inner City Broadcasting Corporation.-About KBLX:...
102.9 MHz - Urban ContemporaryUrban contemporaryUrban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
music - KSCUKSCUKSCU is a radio station broadcasting a Variety format. Licensed to Santa Clara, California, the station serves the San Jose area. The station is currently owned by Santa Clara University. The station plays independent music, varying from indie rock, punk, ska, jazz, blues, reggae, and others...
103.3 MHz - Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara UniversitySanta Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose... - KKSFKKSFKKSF, known as "Oldies 103.7", is a classic hits radio station in San Francisco, California. The station is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications.-History:...
103.7 MHz - Classic rockClassic rockClassic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...
, "103.7 the Band" - KFOGKFOGKFOG is an FM radio station in San Francisco, California, broadcasting on 104.5 and sister station KFFG 97.7 FM MHz. The 97.7 transmitter is located near Cupertino, California, and it is a simulcast of 104.5 KFOG....
104.5 MHz - Album Adult Alternative - KCNLKCNLKCNL is a radio station in San Jose, California and serves the San Francisco Bay Area. It is owned by The Principle Broadcasting Network San Jose, LLC and airs a Mexican Oldies format....
104.9 MHz - Spanish Oldies music, ClearChannel - KITSKITSKITS is a San Francisco, California, USA-based radio station broadcasting at 105.3 MHz. The station is owned by CBS Radio and programs a modern rock format. The station also broadcasts on HD channel L2, locally on Comcast cable channel 986, and is streaming online.-Hot Hits:The station's...
105.3 MHz - Alternative RockAlternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
, "Live 105" - KVVF 105.7 MHz- Spanish (simulcast of KVVZ), "Viva 100.7 and 105.7"
- KMELKMELKMEL is an Urban Contemporary-formatted radio station located in San Francisco, California, and owned by Clear Channel Communications....
106.1 MHz - Hip HopHip hop musicHip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
, "106 KMEL" - KEZRKEZRKEZR is a radio station licensed to San Jose, California and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. They program a Hot Adult Contemporary format as "Mix 106.5" and are owned by NextMedia Group....
106.5 MHz - Hot Adult Contemporary, Next MediaNext MediaNext Media Limited , founded by serial entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, has more than 3,600 employees and is the largest-listed media company in Hong Kong....
"MIX 106.5" - KFRCKFRC-FMKFRC-FM is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It simulcasts sister station KCBS, which carries an all-news format...
106.9 MHz - News (simulcast of KCBS), "KCBS All News 740 and 106.9" - KSAN 107.7 MHz - Alternative RockAlternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
, 107.7 The Bone"
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