Nope, KUSF is the Jesuit University of San Francisco. The station that went on to become the SF piece of the KDFC trimulcast.
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Classical California to cut workforce due to funding cuts
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K.M. Richards
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THANK YOU for continuing to make my point.
In case it is not clear to those lost in the recently-muddied waters, KDFC is now owned by USC, having purchased both KUSF/90.3 and the intellectual property of KDFC/102.1 (now KRBQ) from Entercom in 2011. The deal included the former KNDL/88.9 in Angwin, which is now KOSC.
KUSF has been an online-only station since that transaction, but it still is off-topic here (IMHO, YMMV).
That reminds me of the very contentious sale of the station to KUSC, where the students were sort of cut out of the loop:
KUSF goes off air to shock, dismay of disc jockeys and fervent fans
KUSF, a San Francisco-based college radio station with a cult following, abruptly went off the air Tuesday morning, shocking its…
The Jesuits were tired of the embarrassment caused by the student-run station. Which may be why so many other colleges have chosen to have their stations professionally run. Or just sell them.
That reminds me of the very contentious sale of the station to KUSC, where the students were sort of cut out of the loop:
KUSF goes off air to shock, dismay of disc jockeys and fervent fans
KUSF, a San Francisco-based college radio station with a cult following, abruptly went off the air Tuesday morning, shocking its…www.sfexaminer.com
The Jesuits were tired of the embarrassment caused by the student-run station. Which may be why so many other colleges have chosen to have their stations professionally run. Or just sell them.
Yes, I remember reading about that when it happened. Interestingly, KXLU-FM, the radio station at my old alma matta, a Jesuit-run university in Los Angeles, still has students doing on-air shifts, save for some of the weekend shows. I guess the Jesuits in San Francisco weren't quite as forgiving as the Jesuits in Los Angeles.
Or perhaps the Loyola students are a bit more responsible.
There are currently six stations in the California classical network headed by KUSC. Three have already been mentioned; the other three are KXSC-FM (the over-the-air station licensed by the FCC to Sunnyvale, CA); KDFG-FM, serving the Monterey area; and KPSC-FM, licensed to Palm springs, close to where @davideduardo lives, if I remember correctly. What I will be watching for will be if any of those network stations come up for sale now that CPB funding is no longer available.
CPB funding only was 5% of their budget. The staff cuts will probably be enough to fill the gap.
Here's what I remember, for whatever that's worth: KUSF was ostensibly a student-run station, but in reality it was run mostly by former students and non-student community volunteers, some of whom had been holding down shifts at the station for many years. Some of that programming was acceptable, some was controversial, some was music that the Jesuit fathers and administration felt didn't reflect well on the (a) university, (b) Jesuits, or (c) RC Church. They finally exhausted their patience and decided to move the operation online, accepting USC's offer to acquire KUSF's license and transmitter assets. The studios, music library, et al stayed at the college for use in the online operation. Most of the volunteers stomped away when their toy store got repossessed.That reminds me of the very contentious sale of the station to KUSC, where the students were sort of cut out of the loop:
KUSF goes off air to shock, dismay of disc jockeys and fervent fans
KUSF, a San Francisco-based college radio station with a cult following, abruptly went off the air Tuesday morning, shocking its…
The Jesuits were tired of the embarrassment caused by the student-run station. Which may be why so many other colleges have chosen to have their stations professionally run. Or just sell them.
Carrier current stations are not licensed. There's no way to look them up.
Thanks for answering my question
USC has KXSC.org which may still be carrier current on AM 1560.
When I was at UCLA back in the early 1980s, we had a carrier-current station called KLA. It was on 830 AM, before that frequency was occupied by the current 50kw sports station. But I couldn't pick up KLA at the on-campus dorm I was living in. So, I took my portable radio to an adjacent dorm. Still couldn't hear it. Went to another dorm. Still nothing. Finally found out you could only pick up KLA in ONE dorm (out of maybe five). And the audio (even for AM) was horrible.
Correct. In order for a carrier current station to be heard in multiple dorms, you basically need to have a transmitter in every dorm.
Not necessarily. If several or even many dorms are fed from the same substation or transformer, carrier current can cover the whole area on the same utility line.
My Dad was the engineer for his college’s carrier current AM station in a small town in the early 1950s. He said the station could be heard throughout the town. Coverage depends on where the signal is injected as well as the particulars of the local electrical grid.
OK, take this for what it's worth being Wikipedia, but there is a list of current carrier current college stations.
Carrier current - Wikipedia
I believe KXSC us on 1560
Classical California actually has *9* full-power stations. From north to south: Angwin, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.