KSOL
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| City | San Francisco, California |
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| Broadcast area | San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, California |
| Branding | "98.9 y 99.1 Que Buena " |
| Slogan | "La Estacion Del Cara De Perro Piolin Por La Mañana" |
| Frequency | 98.9 MHz |
| First air date | February 1, 1948 (as KJBS-FM) |
| Format | Regional Mexican Music |
| ERP | 6,100 watts |
| HAAT | 409 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 70032 |
| Callsign meaning |
SOuL (old format) SOL = Spanish for "sun" |
| Former callsigns | See below |
| Affiliations | Oakland Raiders (NFL) |
| Owner |
Univision Radio (TMS License California, Inc) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | Que Buena |
KSOL 98.9 FM ("98.9 y 99.1 Que Buena") is a Spanish language radio station in San Francisco, California. KSQL (99.1 FM) simulcasts the station in Santa Cruz. KSOL and KSQL program a format consisting of regional Mexican music and talk shows. Both stations are owned by Univision. Its studios are in the Financial District of San Francisco, and the KSOL transmitter is on Mount Sutro.
There are two booster stations for this station: KSOL-FM2 in Sausalito since 1992, and KSOL-FM3 in Pleasanton since 1997.
The 98.9 frequency is the third station in the San Francisco market to use the callsign KSOL. The first was the AM rhythm and blues station at 1450 AM (the current KEST). Sly Stone was influential in guiding KSOL into soul music and started calling the station K-SOUL. The second was a popular soul music station (sans the K-SOUL moniker), at 107.7 FM (now known as KSAN). The current KSOL is unrelated to the previous two stations.
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. 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 FM station was financially unsuccessful, and in 1953 it was sold to CBS. KCBS-FM had been operating with substantially lower power on 103.7 when it made the move to acquire this station.
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