KDFC-FM

Infobox Radio station
name = KDFC


city = San Francisco, California
area = San Francisco Bay Area
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frequency = 102.1 MHz HD Radio
format = Classical music
power =
erp = 33,000 W
haat = 319 m
class = B
facility_id = 65486
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owner = Entercom Communications
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sister_stations = KOIT-FM, KBWF
webcast = [http://www.kdfc.com/pages/743368.php Listen Live]
website = [http://www.kdfc.com/ www.kdfc.com]
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KDFC is a commercial radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area that broadcasts classical music on 102.1 MHz FM. KDFC is the radio home of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera. As of Winter 2007, KDFC ranked among the top 3 Bay Area radio stations (#2 music station), and is the most popular classical station in the U.S.

KDFC broadcasts classical music 24 hours a day, and morning drive hours also features short news and traffic updates. Programming features include: the "Big One @ 1" at 1 p.m., the "Island of Sanity" at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and the "Classical Giant at 10" at 10pm. The San Francisco Symphony airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m.

KDFC's self-described "casual, comfortable" approach to the classical format includes special programming and promotions such as The KDFC World Tour (the music of a different country, every hour); History on Shuffle; (fantasy iPod sets of famous people through history); the KDFC Classical Star Search talent contest; and KDFC in the Clubs Month, with live classical concerts in nightclubs.

In addition to FM and SHOUTcast MP3 streaming, KDFC – the first radio station in the country to broadcasts in digital HD Radio – offers a secondary HD Radio channel, KDFC-2, featuring longer classical pieces and vocal works, without commercials.

A multiple winner of the National Association of Broadcaster's top award for public service, KDFC is an active partner to arts groups and an active advocate for music education. Proceeds from the station's annual CD sampler, and the annual 'Music Educator of the Year' support and celebrate public school music programs.

KDFC transmits its signal from Mount Beacon atop the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, California.Founded in 1946 by Ed Davis, it has had the same format longer than any other Bay Area radio station — 61 years as of 2007. For many years the programming, which was largely automated after 1976, was simulcast on KIBE, a daytime-only 5 kW AM station in Palo Alto, California that began broadcasting in 1949 from a transmitter near the western approach to the Dumbarton Bridge and is now KNTS, a news-talk station.

On Air Personalities

*Rik Malone
*Dianne Nicolini
*Hoyt Smith
*Betsy O'Conner
*John Evans

Controversy

In January 2005, a national controversy erupted when KDFC refused to sell advertising to the gay dating service "8 Guys Out," while taking advertisements for the heterosexual dating service "Table for Six". Speculation was that since KDFC's then-owner, Bonneville International Corporation, was a Mormon-controlled company, the church connection led to the advertising ban. [ [http://www.sfist.com/archives/2005/08/19/rock_out_with_eight_guys_out.php Entries from SFist tagged with '2005/08/19/rock_out_with_eight_guys_out' ] ] In this light, the policy of then-owner Bonneville did not allow advertising for liquor, lotteries, nor casinos.

Change of ownership in 2007

On 2007-01-18, Bonneville signed an agreement with Entercom Communications Corporation to trade three San Francisco stations — KOIT, KMAX, and KDFC — for three Entercom stations in Seattle, Washington and four in Cincinnati, Ohio. Entercom officially took ownership of KDFC in March 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.kdfc.com/ Classical 102.1 KDFC]
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