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Paul 'Lobster' Wells has worked for KQKE, which was otherwise not related to KQAK. Later, another station, progressive talk radio KQKE, went on to use the same 'Quake' nickname. The final song broadcast before The Quake went off the air on Jwas 'Around The Dial' from The Kinks this featured a re-edited version of the 'radio tuning' intro for the song which made reference to the demise of the station. The KQAK broadcast studios were located at 1311 Sutter Street in San Francisco. Popular programs on The Quake, in addition to shows like, 'The Alex Bennett's Morning Program', 'The Quake's Early Tremors', 'Midnight Dread' and a syndicated program called 'The Rock Over London'. The modern rock format of The Quake has become much more memorable than their AOR incarnation, and its later demise was an important catalyst for a shift to a similar but more polished presentation at 'Live 105' ( KITS) in 1986. In April 1983, Elias and Heymann decided to reposition the station (under the programming guidance of Rick Carroll from KROQ-FM) as the 'Rock of the '80s,' emphasizing new wave, punk, reggae, 2 Tone ska, first generation Gothic rock, tracks from the 1960s and 1970s by musicians whose work influenced later punk and new wave performers, and the occasional novelty track. Until 2019, KFOG was the only one of those stations still carrying a rock format, when it switched to a simulcast of sports station KNBR.

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This change left the Bay Area with six very similar-sounding stations ( KMEL, KRQR, KQAK and KFOG, plus San Jose stations KOME and KSJO). In addition to Bennett was Joe Regelski as co-host, continuing their collaboration from KMEL, and Richard 'Big Rick' Stuart, future KROQ jock Jed ' Jed the Fish' Gould The 3rd, Mike Koste, Richard Gossett, Belle Nolan, Rob Francis, Oscar 'Oz' Medina, Paul 'Lobster' Wells, comedian Tim Bedore and others worked at The Quake at one time or another.Ī month after KQAK's debut, another Bay Area station, KFOG changed its format from beautiful music to rock. KQAK was a personality-oriented album-oriented rock station for its first eight months of operation, and was partially influenced by the programming of WLUP in Chicago, a station that Elias and Heymann had previously managed.Ī talented air staff was assembled for the station. Hosting the morning show was the popular Alex Bennett, who had left KMEL in a disagreement over station direction a few months earlier. In 1982, KMPX was sold to a New Jersey investor group, administered by general manager Les Elias and station manager Bob Heymann, and flipped to a mainstream rock format as KQAK, 'The Quake FM99', on August 23 of that year. See also KEAR (AM), KZDG, KFRC-FM, KLLC, and KMPX (FM).KCBS-FM, their format and intellectual property moved to KEAR's 97.3 FM frequency, KMPX moved their big band and swing music format and call letters from 106.9 FM to 98.9 FM, and KEAR moved their Christian-based format from 97.3 FM to 106.9 FM.

In September 1978, owner CBS wanted a still more powerful FM assignment, so they arranged a three-station swap that enabled them to be heard on a much stronger signal. Later, it produced its own locally originated rock programming. Under CBS it rebroadcast KCBS until 1968 when it began to use the syndicated CBS automated programming, 'The Young Sound'. KCBS-FM had been operating with substantially lower power on 103.7 when it made the move to acquire this station. The FM station was financially unsuccessful, and in 1953 it was sold to CBS. As KJBS it had been a full-service station with news, weather, and sports programming, and served as a relay, interrupting programming overnight, to alert police and fire personnel to incidents, prior to the departments' own radio dispatch systems. The station at 98.9 was established in February 1948 as the FM simulcast component of KJBS 1100 (now KFAX) by Julius Brunton & Sons, transmitting from the (still existing) tower atop Clay Jones Apartments at 1250 Jones Street. The current KSOL is unrelated to the previous two stations. The second was a popular soul music station (sans the K-SOUL moniker), at 107.7 FM (now known as KSAN). Sly Stone was influential in guiding KSOL into soul music and started calling the station K-SOUL. The first was the AM rhythm and blues station at 1450 AM (the current KEST). The 98.9 frequency is the third station in the San Francisco market to use the callsign KSOL.

Its studios are located at 1940 Zanker Road in San Jose, and the KSOL transmitter is on Mount Sutro. Both stations are owned by TelevisaUnivision USA. KSOL and KSQL program a format consisting of regional Mexican music and talk shows. KSQL (99.1 FM) simulcasts the station in Santa Cruz. KSOL (98.9 FM 'Que Buena 98.9 y 99.1') is a Spanish language radio station in San Francisco, California.