KUFX
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| City | San Jose, California |
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| Broadcast area | San Jose/Oakland/San Francisco, California |
| Branding | 98.5 K-Fox The South Bay's Classic Rock |
| Slogan | 25 Years & Still Rockin' |
| Frequency | 98.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1959 (as KRPM) |
| Format | Classic rock |
| ERP | 10,000 watts |
| HAAT | 268 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65415 |
| Callsign meaning | K U FOX |
| Former callsigns |
KRPM (1959-1971) KOME (1971-1998) |
| Affiliations | San Jose Sharks |
| Owner |
Entercom Communications (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KGMZ, KOIT, KRBQ, KBLX-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kfox.com |
KUFX (98.5 FM) is a classic rock-formatted radio station in San Jose, California. It is owned by Entercom Communications. The station is referred to on-air as K-Fox. The station has studios located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, and the transmitter is located on Blackberry Hill above Los Gatos.
On January 24, 2011, KUFX began simulcasting on KUZX 102.1 MHz in San Francisco. This simulcast switched to 102.1-HD2 on August 1, 2014; 102.1 now broadcasts as KRBQ.
KUFX was originally located at 94.5 FM, then 104.9 FM, and moved to 98.5 FM on June 19, 1997. Before this, the 98.5 frequency was the longtime home to KOME, which is best remembered as a major Bay Area AOR station throughout the 1970s and into the 1990s. Several of the KUFX staff were employed by KOME. KUFX refers to itself as "98.5 KFOX".
KUFX is the official radio station for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. In a 2006 column, a writer for the San Jose Mercury News noted that he could only listen to a broadcast of a Stanley Cup playoff game on KUFX since his cable company did not carry OLN (later Versus. now NBC Sports Network), which had exclusive television rights to the game. That situation, he noted, provided an ironic twist to him living in the technology-rich Silicon Valley.
The morning show was hosted by Greg Kihn, a musician who had a few Top 40 hit songs in the 1980s, until September 14, 2012.
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