San Diego FM stations in the 1970's

[dgendvil]

I like to know about FM stations in San Diego back in the 1970's. What were the formats back then? I'll list the stations available.

90.3 (unknown)

91.1 XTRA (91X, top-40)

92.5 XHRM (urban)

93.3 KECR (christian), now KHTS

94.1 KFSD (classical), now KMYI

94.9 KBZT (top-40?)

95.9 KKOS (unknown?), now KUSS

96.5 KYXY (easy listening) Did they have other call letters before that?

97.3 KSON (country)

98.1 KIFM (easy listening), started in 1974?

100.7 KFMB-FM (top-40) (B100), what was before B100?

101.5 KGB-FM (AOR)

102.1 (unknown)

102.9 KSDO-FM (top-40 or AC?)

103.7 KJQY (AC?), or was it another call letter & format?, now KSCF

105.3 KCBQ-FM (top-40?, simulcast of KCBQ-AM?)

106.5 KPRI (AOR), now KLNV

Give us your suggestions.

 

[SDRadio]

95.7 KUSS was previously known at KUPR. Prior to that, the Carlsbad station had a studio in .... Carlsbad. It was known as KKOS, a true trip A format station. KKOS call letters were never on 95.7.

102.1 is KPRI, licensed to Encinitas. Prior: KXST/Sets 102.1 licensed to Oceanside. Rock 102.1, where KIOZ came from. Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw, were on this head banging station for a while.

94.1, the strongest FMer (ERP wise) in the market was previously known as KJQY when it tried to be a joy at the freq.

'CBQ FM was never a simulcast of 'CBQ AM. Similar formats; AM had 'older' oldies. KCBQ AM did a successful run in the country format.

 

[Lopaka]

90.3 was XHIS, "His Radio", it was rock, real creative, with the OB Ranger.
94.1 KFSD also did jazz for a while before going all classical
94.9 was originally KLRO, MOR as I recall
96.5 was originally KFMX, jazz I believe
98.1 was originally KJLM, and in La Jolla, also jazz, I think
100.7 KFMB was "music only for a woman" elevator music before becoming the late, great B-100 in about 1976 or so
101.5 was KBKB and it, too, was elevator music before going hard rock as KGB-FM which was one of the finest operations ever
102.1 was KUDE-FM in Oceanside
102.9 began as KBBW, a bible station. I think it did some disco as KSDO-FM in the 1970's, maybe...
103.7 was also KSDO-FM at one time, I think it did classical for a while, but became your Country Cousin, KOZN
104.5 XHERS, "hers" a companion station to XHIS and female oriented beautiful music
105.3 began as Jack Rabell's KITT (with The Navigator, Cloud 9), mainly beautiful music. I think it retained those call letters when it was doing disco in the 1970's, but I could be wrong on that.

 

[hipman2]

I first got an FM radio in 1974. From there, as far as I remember in the 1970s...

93.3 was a religious station'
94.1 was classical
95.7 was once the frequency for a Mexican licensed station, which moved to 99.3 in the early 90s. The present KUSS licensed in Carlsbad was once on 95.9 until 1995.
97.3 was Top 40 in 1974 as KSEA, then switched to the present KSON-FM.
100.7 was something like hers music (a nightmare for a 14-year-old boy to stand), then became B100 in 1975 playing top 40 hits
101.5 was KGB when it was once progressive rock
102.9 and 103.7 played beautiful music
105.3 went all disco in 1979 but before that the signal was so weak I couldn't get the station.
106.5 was KPRI progressive rock

 

[Bob_Hudson]

95.7 was once the frequency for a Mexican licensed station, which moved to 99.3 in the early 90s. The present KUSS licensed in Carlsbad was once on 95.9 until 1995.

Victor Diaz engineered that move which lets his Fiesta Mexicana change frequencies and increasec power, likewise for the Carlsbad stations which had been KKOS. Originally it was KARL and had studios in downtown Carlsbad. Mike Brown, who became Billy Juggs later, was PD for a time at KARL. Jeff Chandler of the LA Times Chandler family paid something like $75,000 for the station on the later 70's and thanks to Victor's two years of work to engineer the frequency switch, Chandler was able to sell it for something like $35 million.

 

[SDRadio]

Jeff Chandler of the LA Times Chandler family paid something like $75,000 for the station on the later 70's and thanks to Victor's two years of work to engineer the frequency switch, Chandler was able to sell it for something like $35 million.

KUPR/95.7 went to Nationwide; and KCEO, one of Lush Rimbaugh's first stations in the EIB network, had the Nationwide banner until Astor Broadcasting took the reigns. The studios in Carlsbad remain legendary -- not only for the KKOS back door concerts, but also for the beautiful view of the 'B Vista Lagoon.

I read recently that Jeff is back in radio again ....