KJQY (defunct radio station)

There have been three different stations in San Diego called KJQY or K-Joy. The original was an easy listening music radio station based in San Diego. The call letters first appeared on May 20, 1979 when the call letters of beautiful music station KOZN-FM 103.7 were changed.

The original KJQY was a beautiful music station that was owned by Westinghouse/Group W on 103.7. Group W sold 103.7 to Westwood One for $19 million in 1989, kickstarting a period of constant changes in ownership. The revolving sets of new owners continuously updated the format, first to New Adult Contemporary/Light Jazz, and then eventually to Soft Adult Contemporary. At some point, 103.7 ended up being owned by SFX, the same people who owned cross-town competitor KYXY 96.5 (which had better ratings). On February 16, 1995, SFX changed KJQY's format to rock adult contemporary, first changing the calls to KMKX and the name to "Rock Mix 103.7", and later to "Classic Hits 103.7 The Planet" and the call letters to KPLN, which is pretty much what it was until Howard Stern left CBS (including 103.7). CBS (the owners at that time and as of this writing) changed 103.7's call letters to KSCF, first as FM talk radio 103.7 Free FM, and in 2007 to Hot Adult Contemporary Sophie @ 103.7 followed by CHR in 2012 as Energy 103.7.

In the late 1990s, there was a second "KJQY", on 102.9 FM on what had been KSDO FM ( Top 40 and later as Classic rock), KSWV (yet another Soft AC/Light Jazz NAC station), KCLX (Classic Rock), and KKBH (All 70s Oldies "The Beach", Soft AC (also as the Beach) and Mainstream AC (as Mix 102.9).

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