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KCBQ (1170 AM, ''The Answer'') is a San Diego radio station broadcasting a Talk radio format and is owned by Salem Communications. The station offers local San Diego radio personality Mark Larson in the morning and Salem's line up of conservative syndicated hosts Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Bill Bennett and Michael Medved the rest of the day. KCBQ had been a Top 40 powerhouse in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, later airing Country music and Oldies formats in the 1980s and 90s, before switching to talk. ==History== 1170 originally signed on the air as KSDJ (for its original owner The San Diego News Journal). The station began broadcasting from its first studio at 5th and Ash in 1947 (later to become the studios of KFMB AM/FM/TV). In 1949, KCBQ was sold to Charles Elliot Salek and became San Diego's second CBS affiliate (KGB had been San Diego's CBS affiliate during the 1930s). To coincide with the new network affiliation, the KSDJ call letters were changed to KCBQ, meaning: K-West of the Mississippi C-Columbia B-Broadcasting Q-Quality The calls KCBS were sought, but the CBS network wanted them for the network-owned San Francisco affiliate. An "agreement" was reached and Salek settled for "K-Columbia-Broadcasting-Quality". In 1951, KCBQ moved its studios to the Imig Manor Hotel (now the Lafayette) on El Cajon Blvd. KCBQ's transmitter site was next to the Campus Drive-In at El Cajon Boulevard and College Ave. The drive-in was demolished in the late 70's and is now the Campus Shopping Center. KCBQ's power until 1958 was 5,000 watts non-directional day and 1,000 watts non-directional night. KCBQ had an RCA BTA-5F 5,000 watt transmitter at the College site. KFSD/KOGO used the same model transmitter. Bartell Family Radio bought KCBQ in 1955 and dropped the CBS affiliation as network radio was losing its luster in the face of competition from television. In 1956 the station spent a few months in an old Victorian house during a gap between the end of their lease at the Imig Manor and the completion of the new glass studios at the El Cortez Center at 7th and Ash. Those studios are dedicated in 1957 with a live broadcast from an outdoor stage featuring the music of Bill Green's big band. The new studios had a large "picture window" studio that looked out over the street so that fans could watch their favorite DJs on the air. There was even a mirror mounted over the console so that from the street you could watch the DJ's every move at the controls. The studios were features in Life Magazine in 1958. This will be the home of one of the greatest pioneering Top 40 stations ever for the next 11 years. In 1958, the station increased its power to 50k watts directional daytime and 5k watts directional nighttime with a huge $50,000 treasure hunt giveaway to publicize the power increase. The transmitter site was moved from College and El Cajon Boulevard to a new site in then-remote, bucolic Santee. The boosted power was more of an appeal to eastern ad agencies than an actual signal improvement with virtually all of it being shot out over the Pacific Ocean and KCBQ still unable to be heard more than about 20 miles to the north at night. In 1968, the studios moved to the Santee transmitter site where they remained through several ownership changes, until purchased by Salem Broadcasting in the 1990s. The site was demolished and the transmitter site moved even further east to relatively undeveloped Lakeside, sharing towers with Family Radio's AM 910. The former Santee transmitter site now bears a monument to its famous 50-year tenant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KCBQ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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