KOIT

KOIT
City	San Francisco, California
Broadcast area	San Francisco Bay Area
Branding	96.5 KOIT
Slogan	Better Music for a Better Day
Frequency	96.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	July 1947 (as KRON-FM)
Format	Adult Contemporary Christmas Hits (Nov. - Dec.)
ERP	24,000 watts
HAAT	480 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	6380
Callsign meaning	refers to San Francisco landmark Coit Tower
Former callsigns	KRON-FM (1947–1975) KOIT (1975–1983) KOIT-FM (1983–2010)
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Entercom Communications (Entercom License, LLC)
Sister stations	KGMZ, KUFX, KRBQ, KBLX-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	koit.com

History

The station signed on the air July 1, 1947, under the callsign KRON-FM.^[2] It was owned by the deYoung family, and was co-owned with KRON-TV and the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. The station had a limited broadcast schedule (airing only during the evening hours). The station shut down on December 31, 1954; when it returned to the air as non-commercial station in 1957, KRON-FM began carrying an evening-only program schedule devoted to classical music. During the 1960s, KRON-FM devoted a full hour (7 to 8 p.m.) to a complete Broadway show album. Since the station had no commercials, no underwriters, and no on-air fund drives, the Chronicle operated the station as a public service.^[3] Staff announcers delivered short newscasts on the station's evening broadcasts. In December 1970, KRON-FM began simulcasting a Spanish-language newscast from KRON-TV by Terry Lowry.^[4]

In 1975, the deYoung's Chronicle Publishing Company, which was the then-parent of KRON-TV and the Chronicle, sold KRON-FM to Bonneville International, who changed the station's callsign to KOIT. On December 13, 1983, Bonneville purchased KYA (1260 AM) from KING Broadcasting, changing the call letters to KOIT with 96.5 going to KOIT-FM per FCC convention. The KYA call letters remained in service at KYA-FM (93.3, now KRZZ) and went into retirement in 1993. In 1983, KOIT was playing a lot of instrumental music, sort of like the "elevator music" that was being played at KBAY (then at 100.3 FM) in San Jose. The majority of the station's playlist consisted of instrumentals, but also contained some vocals. In late 1987, KOIT changed their music format to adult contemporary, by dropping all instrumentals, and started playing music from the 1970s, and 1980s. For the first 8 years of the adult contemporary format, the station was heavy on oldies. In 1995, KOIT updated their playlist by dropping the 1950s and 1960s songs, and added more recent and current music. In 2001, KOIT began playing more hits from the 1990s and 2000s. As recently as 2009, KOIT was playing approximately one song from every decade in order in 3 song-sets. In 2009, KOIT started playing a lot more recent hits from the late 2000s and early 2010s, and dropped the 3-song decade sets.

On January 18, 2007, Bonneville announced a station swap with Entercom Communications, with KOIT and Bonneville's other San Francisco area FM radio holdings going to Entercom in return for three of Entercom's stations in Seattle, Washington and Entercom's entire radio cluster in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[5] This trade marked Entercom's re-entry into the country's fourth largest radio market. Entercom officially took over KOIT-FM via a local marketing agreement on February 26, 2007, and Entercom and Bonneville officially closed on the deal on March 14, 2008, with KOIT and the other San Francisco FM stations formerly owned by Bonneville becoming owned by Entercom outright. KOIT's AM sister station was concurrently sold to Immaculate Heart Radio, and became KSFB in December 2007; however, KOIT-FM did not drop the "-FM" suffix until September 2010.

"Fresh FM" branding

According to Radio & Records, KOIT acquired the "Fresh FM" branding for the San Francisco Bay Area on February 6, 2007. KOIT integrated the branding alongside their "Lite Rock, Less Talk" slogan.

References

↑ http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=3
↑ "San Francisco Chronicle Launches Its FM Outlet" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 7, 1947. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
↑ Bay Area Radio Museum | History | Audio | Archives
↑ Broadcast Legends - Terry Lowry
↑ http://www.seattlepi.com/business/300350_radioswap19.html

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KOIT

Radio-Locator information on KOIT

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KOIT

Radio stations in the San Francisco, California market

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By FM frequency	87.7² 87.9 88.1 88.1 88.5 89.1 89.3 89.3 89.3 89.3 89.3 89.5 89.7 89.9 90.1 90.3 90.5 90.5 90.7 91.1 91.5 91.7 92.3 92.7 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.1 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.1 98.5 98.9 99.7 100.3 100.7 101.3 102.1 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.5 106.9 107.3 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.500 162.550

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Defunct	KABL KABL-FM KFRC KYA KJAZ KKHI KMPX KOME KSAN (defunct) KUSF (defunct)

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Adult Contemporary radio stations in the state of California

Stations	KABX – Merced KATY – Idyllwild KBAY – Gilroy KBBY – Ventura KBPK – Buena Park KCRE – Crescent City KEZN – Palm Desert KGFM – Bakersfield KISQ - San Francisco KJJZ – Indian Wells KJSN – Modesto KJWL – Fresno KKDV – Walnut Creek KMDR – McKinleyville KMXI – Chico KOIT – San Francisco KOST – Los Angeles KRKC-FM – King City KSHA – Redding KSOF – Dinuba/Fresno KSRW – Independence KSTT-FM – Los Osos-Baywood Par KSYV – Solvang KUIC – Vacaville KVMI - Tulare KVYN – Saint Helena KWAV – Monterey KXBX-FM – Lakeport KXO-FM – El Centro KXSN – San Diego KYLA – Fountain Valley KYMX – Sacramento KYNS – San Luis Obispo KYXY – San Diego KYZA – Adelanto KZSQ – Sonora KZST – Santa Rosa

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California

Entercom

AM radio stations	KCSP KEZW KFH KFXX KIFM KJCE KMBZ KMTT KNSS KWOD KYYS WAXY WBEN WBZU WEAL WEEI WGR WILK WKZN WMC WMFS WORD WPET WQXI WRKO WROC WSSP WVEI WWKB WWL WWWL WWWS WXNT WYRD

FM radio stations	K242CC KALC KAMX KBLX-FM KBZT KDGS KDND KEYN-FM KFBZ KFH-FM KGMZ KGON KHTP KISW KKDO KKMJ-FM KKWF KMBZ-FM KNDD KNRK KOIT KQKS KQMT KQRC-FM KRBQ KRBZ KRSK KRXQ KSEG KSON KSOQ-FM KSWD KUDL KUFX KWJJ-FM KXSN KYCH-FM KZPT WAAF WBEE-FM WBZA WCMF-FM WDAF-FM WEEI-FM WEZB WFBC-FM WGGI WGGY WILK-FM WJMH WKAF WKBU WKRF WKRZ WKSE WKTK WLFP WLKK WLMG WLYF WMC-FM WMFS-FM WMHX WMMM-FM WMQX WMXJ WMYX-FM WNTR WNVZ WOLX-FM WPAW WPTE WPXY-FM WQMG WROQ WRVR WSFS WSKY-FM WSMW WSPA-FM WSTR WTPT WTSS WVEI-FM WVKL WWDE-FM WWEI WWL-FM WXSS WYRD-FM WZPL

Coordinates: 37°45′19″N 122°27′10″W / 37.7552°N 122.4527°W / 37.7552; -122.4527

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