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KLSD (1360 AM) is a Sports radio station, primarily affiliated with the Fox Sports Radio network. KLSD is based in San Diego, California, and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It operates with 5,000 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night. KLSD is San Diego's oldest licensed radio station, first going on the air in 1922. Its history includes previous formats Top 40 (as ''KGB''), Adult standards (as ''KPOP'') and progressive talk radio. Sports programming began on November 12, 2007. KLSD broadcasts San Diego Chargers football games, in conjunction with the team's official flagship radio station, co-owned 105.3 KIOZ. KLSD also broadcasts Los Angeles Lakers basketball, San Diego State University baseball as well as college and pro football games from the Sports USA Radio Network. The station shares a broadcasting tower with KGB-FM and KHTS-FM in the East San Diego area. The station's studios are located in San Diego's Kearny Mesa neighborhood on the northeast side. ==History== *1922 July: W.K. Azbill was issued a license and the Call sign KFBC, operating at 10 watts on 833.3 kilocycles. *1927: This license was assigned to Dr. Arthur Wells Yale. *1928: Pickwick Broadcasting Corporation bought the station and made George Bowles vice president and manager of the station, changing the call sign to KGB to follow his name. *1931: Don Lee, Inc. bought KGB. *1932 August 5: The Federal Radio Commission authorized KGB to increase its power from 500 W to 1 KW. At that time the station operated on 1330 kHz. *1934: Don Lee died and the license went to his son Thomas Lee, and was managed by Marion R. Harris. *1942: The station began operating at 1360 kilohertz. *1949: KGB was operating at 1000 watts. Don Lee, Inc. was merged with Mutual Broadcasting Company. *1954: The station was sold to Marion R. Harris. *1958: KGB's studios moved from the Pickwick Hotel to 4141 Pacific Highway, and the transmitter moved to 52nd Street and Kalmia. Power was increased at the new transmitter site to 5,000 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night. (Because AM radio waves travel farther at night, some stations must reduce power after sunset to avoid interfering with stations in nearby cities operating on the same frequency.) KLSD is San Diego's oldest licensed radio station still broadcasting today, first going on the air as KFBC on July 14, 1922, broadcasting on 833.3 kc. (360 meters) and sharing the time with eight other San Diego radio stations. As the government expanded the AM band to numerous frequencies, the station soon moved to 1210 kc. The call sign was changed to KGB in 1928, and the frequency moved to its present 1360 kHz in 1942. The call letters have nothing to do with the Soviet-era ''KGB''. In 1928, the U.S.S.R. intelligence and internal security service was still known as the OGPU and would not become the ''KGB,'' Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, until 26 years later, in 1954. In the 1960s, KGB was an important player in the San Diego AM Top 40 race, being one of the first markets for the Boss Radio format. In the 1970s, with its FM sister station KGB-FM, 1360 KGB became an early adopter and pioneer of what is now called the album oriented rock format. KGB-FM still plays classic rock from that era on 101.5 MHz. The AM side of KGB returned to the top 40 format for a few years in the late 1970s under the moniker "13K", with a good amount of success. As music was being phased off of AM radio, 1360 KGB became KCNN with an all-news format in 1982, using the audio from CNN Headline News, now the HLN Network. In 1986, the station switched to KPQP, playing Adult Standards. In 1997 the call sign changed to KPOP, with the same adult standards format. The station became a progressive talk station under the call sign KLSD (for K Liberal San Diego) in August 2004. Most of the programming came from the Air America Radio Network. KLSD also aired the Ed Schultz show from Jones Radio Network and Mike Malloy from Nova M Radio. Local programming included the morning show, hosted by Stacy Taylor〔(Stacy Taylor website )〕 (last heard on San Diego 1700 AM) and the nationally syndicated Air America host Jon Elliott.〔(Jon Elliott website )〕 Its logo during this period was similar to that of sister station and progressive talk outlet KABQ in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When it became known that KLSD was going to change format from Liberal Talk to Sports Talk, listeners organized and held rallies to attempt to persuade Clear Channel to keep the format.〔(Listeners rally to save KLSD )〕〔(Best Talk Radio News )〕〔(San Diego Union Tribune )〕 Station officials at first denied the rumor.〔(am1360 website )〕 A documentary titled ''Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio'' was being made about the effort.〔(Daily KOS )〕〔(Official Website ''Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio'' )〕 The liberal talk format gave way to the current all-sports programming in November 2007; the call sign KLSD was not changed. In August 2005, Clear Channel Media applied to the FCC to increase KLSD's power to 50,000 watts day and night, planning to share the six-tower KSDO array in Santee, California, since the owners of KLSD also owned the broadcast site for KSDO.〔(FCC Website )〕 However, due to the added cost, Clear Channel decided against the move, and 1360 still broadcasts at 5,000 watts day, 1,000 watts night. In September 2014, parent company Clear Channel Media became iHeartMedia. 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「KLSD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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