Archives: Stations

Livermore’s KKIQ began as KYTE on May 1, 1969 under the ownership of Peer Broadcasting, headed by Ralph Peer. The call letters were changed to KKIQ in 1975, when the station was acquired by General […]

The FM station that would come to be known as KUSF (a low-powered AM campus-only version of KUSF went on the air in 1963) began as a project of the evangelical Christian and Missionary Alliance. […]

KRTY, calling itself “Country 95.3”, came to life on January 10, 1990. The Country format had actually arrived a few weeks earlier when Thomas Gammon’s Crown Broadcasting acquired KATD for $5 million, initially re-branding the […]