- KSBR
Infobox Radio Station
name = KSBR
airdate =1975
frequency = 88.5 (MHz)
city =Mission Viejo, California
area =Orange County, California
format =Jazz /News
owner =Saddleback Community College
erp = 600watt s
haat = 183meter s
branding = Jazz-FM
slogan =
class = A
webcast = [http://www.ksbr.net/webcast.html Listen Live]
website = [http://www.ksbr.net/ www.ksbr.net]
callsign_meaning = K SaddleBack College RadioKSBR is a non-commercial
radio station inMission Viejo, California , broadcasting to theOrange County, California area on 88.5 FM. KSBR airs ajazz music format branded as "Jazz-FM" along with news programming.History
KSBR signed on in
1975 with a limited coverage area of only a few miles from the campus ofSaddleback Community College . In1979 , the signal was upgraded to cover most of Orange County.(There is incidentally one other 'KSBR' in the world - a marketing consultancy based in Hertford, just north of London in the UK.)
The call letters were previously used by an FM station in
San Bruno, California , which operated at 100.5 megaHertz, during the 1940s and 1950s. [ [http://bostonradio.org/fm-1950.html The Boston Radio Archives: FM Licenses as of 1950 ] ] The station was owned and operated by Eitel-McCullough, which moved toSan Carlos, California in 1959 and merged withVarian Associates in 1965.References
External links
* [http://www.ksbr.net/ Official Website]
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*FML|KSBR
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