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KITS (105.3 FM, "Live 105") is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock radio format known as "Live 105". The studios and offices are co-located with formerly co-owned KPIX-TV on Battery Street in the North Beach district of San Francisco.
The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the fourth-largest radio market in the United States. While most stations originate in San Francisco, this list includes stations from San Jose, which ranks as the 37th largest radio market but is also considered an embedded market within the Bay Area.
The classification of urban-formatted radio stations range from the radio formats of rhythmic contemporary hit radio to Urban contemporary gospel. Though urban contemporary was the originator of the format, there have come to be many variations of the format in the last 30 years.
KOME won the Rolling Stone Readers' Poll as "Station of the Year" in both 1988 and 1990, landing the station on the cover of the music magazine. Local, national and international live broadcasts and innovative promotions kept the station in the forefront of rock radio. KOME's sound became a blend of alternative rock and new wave music in May 1994.
Masters has resurfaced on Bay Area radio over the years and has continued to craft radio promotions. Steve Masters is regarded as a Bay Area radio legend [citation needed], due to the extraordinary number of artists he helped gain airplay at Live 105 in the 1980s and 1990s. Now Steve Masters is heard on 73 [4] radio stations across America on a feature called GotGame, a program he created [5 ...
WLIR was a radio station that played a new music / modern rock format on the frequencies 92.7 FM, 98.5 FM, and 107.1 FM from the 1980s into the 2000s. Bob Wilson, longtime WLIR employee and historian, created the website WDAREFM.COM (Dare FM), which maintains the spirit of the original WLIR. He also programs the music playlist. [1] The website broadcasts a mix of alternative rock from the past ...
KVVF (105.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Santa Clara, California, and is simulcast on 100.7 KVVZ San Rafael. They are owned by Univision Communications, with studios at 1940 Zanker Road in San Jose. [1] [2] They serve the San Francisco Bay Area with a Spanish CHR radio format, using the slogan "Reggaeton y más." KVVF and KVVZ are the San Jose affiliates for the Uforia Audio ...
KEZR (106.5 FM, "Mix 106.5 San Jose") is a radio station licensed to San Jose, California and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. They program an Adult Top 40 format and are owned by Alpha Media through the licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Co-owned with KBAY, its studios are located in South San Jose just off US 101 on Hellyer Ave, and the transmitter is based from a site in Santa Teresa ...