KSAN (FM)
KSAN (107.7 FM, "107.7 The Bone") is a commercial radio station licensed to San Mateo, California, with its transmitter located on San Bruno Mountain. It broadcasts to the San Francisco Bay Area. KSAN airs a mainstream rock music format, also playing some alternative rock . The station's studios are located in San Francisco's SoMa district.
History
This entry is primarily about radio station KSAN 94.9 FM known to "Baby Boomers" in Northern California during the 1960s.
Call sign KSAN has been used by four unrelated radio stations and one related TV station in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1950s. In the early 1960s, KSAN 1450 AM San Francisco became KSOL and programmed R&B music station, notable for DJ Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart), who went on to fame as a musician, fronting the band Sly and the Family Stone.
The KSAN call sign was first used on FM at 94.9 on May 21, 1968, after the former classical music station KSFR was purchased by Metromedia in October 1966. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had given a construction permit for KSFR on September 20, 1957 to H. Alan Levitt, who owned a San Francisco record shop. Levitt had previously worked as an engineering assistant and announcer at KLX (910 AM) in Oakland. KSFR was assigned 94.9. Levitt had tried unsuccessfully to get 96.5, but the FCC gave that frequency to the San Francisco Chronicle station KRON-FM, which returned to the air as a non-commercial classical music station in 1957 after being off the air for three years. (KRON-FM had originally broadcast on 96.5 from July 1947 to December 31, 1954.)
'Ksan
'Ksan is a historical village and living museum of the Gitxsan Aboriginal people in the Skeena Country of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Its location is near Hazelton at the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers.
History
Ksan was founded before Hazelton was in 1866, and was populated by the Gitxsan Aboriginal people.
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Coordinates: 55°15′00″N 127°40′00″W / 55.25000°N 127.66667°W / 55.25000; -127.66667
KSAN
KSAN may refer to:
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Kasaan, a village of the Kaigani Haida on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
KSAN (defunct)
KSAN (AM), known later as KSOL (AM), was one of the first "rhythm and blues" radio stations in the United States, located in San Francisco, California. One star to come out of the station was the DJ Sylvester Stewart, later known as Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone recording fame.
History
KSAN was a pioneer in broadcasting to the black audience in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with Oakland's KWBR, which later became KDIA. Until the mid-1950s, the handful of stations on the air locally devoted little time to "ethnic" programming of any kind, with the exception of KSAN and KWBR, which also broadcast programs intended for the Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, German and Japanese communities.
The original KSAN (not KSAN (FM), KYLD or KSOL) was born in June 1925 as KGTT. In 1929, it became KGGC and, in 1938, it became the first local station to use the KSAN call letters. In 1958, KSAN switched to a full-time rhythm and blues music format, targeting black listeners in the Bay Area, the first station on the local dial to broadcast R&B around the clock. KSAN's transmitter was on top of the Merchandise Mart building on Market Street, where the studios were located.
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