KSJO

KSJO is a commercial radio station licensed to San Jose, California, and broadcasts to the San Francisco Bay Area on 92.3 FM. KSJO currently airs a country music format branded as Nash FM 92.3. It is owned by Universal Media Access and operated by Cumulus Media.

KSJO broadcasts in HD.

History

KSJO is the second call sign assigned in San Jose, California, initially applied to both an AM station (KLIV) and an FM station. The FM station began broadcasting in 1947 as 95.3 FM. By 1949, KSJO was airing on both 95.3 FM and 1590 AM.

Ron Hayes worked for KSJO in the mid 1950s before launching his acting career.

Prior to 1968, KSJO was owned by SRD Broadcasting, consisting of Scott Elrod of San Francisco; Don was Don Bekins of Bekins Van Lines and R was Richard "Dick" Garvin. As freeform rock was growing in popularity, with Tom Donahue's KMPX in nearby San Francisco becoming a national trendsetter, KSJO dropped jazz, starting in the evening only with Mark Williams and Jim Hilsabeck. After a few months Elrod and team brought in Bob Sobelman, a radio veteran, to GM the station and Larry Mitchell a top L.A. program director took over the helm. "The Light from Below" was one of the early slogans but did not live long ("below the San Francisco Bay"), the format was pure free-form progressive rock. The previous simple female-sex-symbol logo morphed into a red-white-and-blue logo and bumper sticker designed by Diane Roberts in Los Gatos, and the announcing staff was all-male for many years. Brief stint program directors included Bill Slator and Dick Kimball but for 5 plus years Douglas (Droese) was the program director remaining so until the Sterling buy out in 1974. The station was later sold to Sterling Recreation Organization (SRO) of Seattle, Washington.

KNPN-LD

KNPN-LD, virtual channel and UHF digital channel 26, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. As the television flagship of the News-Press & Gazette Company, KNPN is a sister station to CW affiliate KBJO-LD (channel 21), Telemundo affiliate KNPG-LD (channel 30) and local news and weather channel News-Press 3 NOW; this arrangement also places the four outlets under the same ownership as the St. Joseph News-Press newspaper.

All five media properties are based out of NPG's corporate offices on Edmond Street/I-29 in downtown Saint Joseph; KNPN maintains transmitter facilities located between South 16th and 17th Streets (adjacent to U.S. 36), near downtown Saint Joseph. There is no separate website for the station, instead it is integrated with that of the co-owned St. Joseph News-Press.

History

On March 14, 2012, News-Press & Gazette acquired two low-power digital television licenses in Saint Joseph, K16KF-D and K26LV-D from Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America 1, LLC for $72,000; two weeks earlier on February 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the company's construction permit application to relocate the two stations' transmitter facilities from a tower near Mound City to the Saint Joseph transmitter and upgrade the effective radiated power for both stations (the channel 16 license would not be activated until March 7, 2013 when it signed on as CW affiliate KBJO-LD). K26LV-D was assigned the call letters KNPN-LD on April 5, 2012, before reverting to the original K26LV-D callsign on May 8, 2012; the callsign reversion was deleted from FCC authorization records two weeks later on May 23, 2012, reverting to the KNPN-LD callsign.