KKSM

KKSM

City	Oceanside, California
Broadcast area	North County, CA
Slogan	Palomar College Radio
Frequency	1320 kHz
First air date	1956
Format	Alternative rock, Freeform (radio format)
Power	500 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	51506
Transmitter coordinates	33°12′08″N 117°20′17″W / 33.20222°N 117.33806°W / 33.20222; -117.33806
Owner	Palomar College
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.palomarcollegeradio.com

KKSM is a 500-Watt Class B college radio station broadcasting full-time at 1320 kHz from the campus of Palomar College, San Marcos, California. The station, licensed in Oceanside, simulcasts via Cox Cable channel 957 and streams via the internet at www.palomarcollegeradio.com.

Organization

Students in the Palomar College radio broadcasting program make up the station on-air staff. Radio students also serve as the station's Program Director, Music Director, Promotions Director, Sports Director, News Director, Public Service Announcement Director. A faculty advisor serves in the position of General Manager and an independent contractor serves as the Chief Engineer.

Format

Format emphasis is on alternative music with specialty and freeform (radio format) programs encompassing other musical genres. The station also has talk shows devoted to sports, professional wrestling, and nerdcore. Local sports programming covers Palomar College football and selected high school games in the North County area.

The station also showcases local music on several shows and within the station's format. Artists perform regularly on KKSM on a variety of shows. Artists that have performed or appeared on KKSM include Tribal Seeds, Ike Turner, Jason Mraz, Korn, Thee Corsairs, Candye Kane, Tristan Prettyman, and others.

Guests that have been interviewed on KKSM include Lou Dobbs, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, former Congressman Duke Cunningham, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, Frankie Laine, Jay Leno, Caspar Weinberger, Art Linkletter, Sally Ride, Red Buttons, director Jim Sheridan, Angelyne, Graham Nash, adult film star Mary Carey, Johnny Knoxville, George Carlin, author Max Brooks, Shawn Wayans, The Smothers Brothers, Frank Gorshin, Marty Allen, Lisa Moretti (aka Ivory), Elmo Shropshire, Mitch Miller, Luke Ski, The Bran Flakes, UFC's Joey Beltran and others.

History

KKSM was founded in 1976 (as KSM) and started in a closet in the former drama lab of Palomar College.^[1] From 1979 until 1996, the station was only available via Cox cable radio. With the Telecommunications Act of 1996, local radio corporation PAR Broadcasting donated the 1320 AM signal to Palomar College.

Famous alumni of KKSM include Fox Sports announcer Jeanne Zelasko, Network TV voice Erik Thompson, TV Anchor John Gregory, longtime San Diego radio announcers AJ Machado, Meg Banta, Greg Simms, Jenn Aquino, Boy Toy Jesse along with KPBS's Alison St. John and Kenny Goldberg, adult film star and Playboy Radio host Kylie Ireland, nerdcore rapper Zealous1 and internet personality Bob Stencil.

Coverage

Coverage is along a crescent-shaped area stretching in a north-south direction from San Juan Capistrano to La Jolla and in an east-west direction from Interstate 15 to the coast.

References

↑ "They Have the Airwaves" Today's Local News Nov. 8, 2006

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KKSM

Radio-Locator Information on KKSM

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KKSM

Radio stations in the San Diego, California market

By AM frequency	600 690 740 760 910 1000 1040 1070 1090 1130 1170 1210 1240 1320 1360 1450 1610¹

By FM frequency	88.3 88.9 89.1 89.5 90.3 91.1 91.3 92.1 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 100.1 100.7 101.5 102.1 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.9 105.3 106.5 107.1 107.9 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 162.425

By callsign	KBRT KBZT KCBQ KCEO "KCR"¹ KECR KEC62 KEGY KFMB KFMB-FM KFSD KGB-FM KHTS-FM KIOZ KKSM KLNV KLQV KLSD KLVJ KMYI KNSN KNSJ KOGO KOPA KPBS-FM KPRI KPRZ KRLY-LP KSDW KSDO KSDS KSON KSOQ-FM KSSD KSSX KURS KWVE-FM KXSN KYDO KYXY WNG637 XETRA-FM XEWW-AM XHITZ-FM XHPRS-FM XHRM-FM XHLNC-FM

Defunct	KJQY KPLN KMJC KHHS-LP

¹ unofficial call-sign of a carrier current station Nearby radio markets Imperial Valley Los Angeles Palm Springs Riverside/San Bernardino Tijuana See also List of radio stations in California

California college radio stations

KALX (University of California – Berkeley) KCPR (Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo) KCR (San Diego State University) KCRH (Chabot College) KDVS (University of California – Davis) KCSS (California State University Stanislaus) KCSB (University of California – Santa Barbara) KFJC (Foothill College) KFSR (California State University – Fresno) KKSM (Palomar Community College) KOHL (Ohlone College) KSAK (Mount San Antonio Community College) KSBR (Saddleback College) KSCU (Santa Clara University) KSDT (University of California – San Diego) KSMC (St. Mary's College) KSPC (Pomona College) KSSU (California State University – Sacramento) KUCI (University of California – Irvine) KUCR (University of California – Riverside) KUSF (University of San Francisco) KXLU (Loyola Marymount University) KXSC (University of Southern California) KZSC (University of California – Santa Cruz) KZSU (Stanford University)

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California

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