For information about the FM station KSSF, best known for its “Smooth Jazz” years, please go here.
When owner Clear Channel Communications (later iHeartMedia) changed formats at KKSF (103.7 FM) in January 2012, it also changed the call letters, to KOSF. This left the KKSF call letters available and the company had them assigned to the station long known as KNEW.
The station had been carrying syndicated talk programming and the change in call letters didn’t do much to change that fact. Rebranded as “KKSF NewsTalk 910”, the station provided a home to a few talk hosts displaced when KGO jettisoned much of its local talent. Bill Wattenburg, Len Tillem, and Gene Burns were familiar KGO voices heard for a time on KKSF. The station aired the syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show for a brief period.
In 2016, the station dropped all English-language programming and picked up the ESPN Deportes Spanish-language sports talk network.
That lasted until 2018, when another sharp turn in programming saw KKSF become “Real Talk 910”, airing a schedule of progressive-leaning syndicated talk shows.
Two years later, “Real Talk 910” was gone, replaced by iHeartMedia’s new Black Information Network (BIN), which billed itself as “the first and only 24/7 comprehensive national audio Black News service.”
