KSJO

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KSJO is the second-oldest radio call sign assigned in San Jose, California, applied to both an AM and FM radio station before the AM changed call letters to KLIV, leaving the 92.3Mz FM frequency to enjoy that San Jose "permanent fixture" identity of "KSJO" for at least half a century. Decades after KLIV had established its AM Top 40 identity, listeners would sometimes inquire "doesn't KLIV own KSJO?". It was originally actually the opposite: KSJO "owned" what was to become KLIV after the AM half was sold. The station began in 1947 as the only radio station in the US with an all-female staff.

Prior to its rock 1968 identity as "The Light from Below" ("below the San Fransico Bay"...soon after Tom Donahue's first-of-this-kind of rock on KMPX in San Francisco), the all-female staff was playing jazz. 1968 KSJO was owned by SRD Broadcasting (Scott, Robert and Don). Scott was Scott Elrod of San Francisco and Don was Don Bekins of Bekins Van Lines. The previous simple female-sex-symbol logo morphed into a red-white-and-blue logo and bumper sticker, and the rock staff was all-male for years.

The station's next owner was SRO Entertainment ("Standing Room Only") of Nevada.

Through the 1980s and 1990s it remained one of San Jose's top 10 most listened-to stations thanks largely to the appeal of morning jocks Lamont and Tonelli and the fact that they were retransmitting their signal from 3 separate locations around the San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Rosa, CA, Walnut Creek, CA and San Jose, CA. When that duo relocated to KSAN-FM in late 2002 KSJO's ratings dropped. An increasingly large local Hispanic population and the rise of Hip Hop also contributed to declining ratings.

KSJO is now owned by Clear Channel, which instituted its current Spanish-language, Mexican music format 19:00 PST 28 October 2004, after recent years of increasingly-hard rock. It had broadcast rock during most all of the previous 35 years since 1968 (with the single, brief exception of a period of Top 40 in the mid-1970s). The last song to be played before the switch was Wall of Voodoo’s “Mexican Radio.” This change was part of a larger initiative by KSJO's owner, Clear Channel, to introduce more Spanish-language programming into various markets across the USA.

The identity used, La Preciosa, is also used by other Clear Channel's Spanish-language, Mexican music stations.

KSJO is located at 1420 Koll Circle #A; San Jose, CA 95112.

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FM radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area market

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Past Stations: KJAZ | KOME | KYA | KYUU

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