KPIG-FM

"KPYG" redirects here. For the airport in Pageland, South Carolina, assigned the ICAO code KPYG, see Pageland Airport.

KPIG-FM

City	KPIG-FM: Freedom, California KPYG: Cayucos, California
Broadcast area	KPIG-FM: Freedom/Santa Cruz/Monterey/Salinas, California KPYG: San Luis Obispo, California
Branding	K-PIG
Slogan	Live Free-range DJs 24/7
Frequency	KPIG-FM: 107.5 MHz KPYG: 94.9 MHz
First air date	KPIG-FM: 1987 KPYG: 1984
Format	Freeform Rock, Blues, Folk, Folk/Country
ERP	KPIG-FM: 5,400 watts KPYG: 25,000 watts
HAAT	KPIG-FM: 103 meters KPYG: 100 meters
Class	KPIG-FM: A KPYG: B1
Facility ID	KPIG-FM: 54745 KPYG: 9851
Transmitter coordinates	KPIG-FM:36°50′6″N 121°42′22″W / 36.83500°N 121.70611°W / 36.83500; -121.70611 KPYG:35°31′26″N 121°3′40″W / 35.52389°N 121.06111°W / 35.52389; -121.06111
Callsign meaning	Swine
Owner	KPIG-FM:Mapleton Communications KPYG: Dimes Media Corporation (KPIG-FM: Mapleton License of Monterey, LLC)
Webcast	Pig Player
Website	kpig.com

KPIG-FM (107.5 FM, "K-PIG") is a radio station located near the city of Santa Cruz, California, USA. Founded in 1988, the studio is based in Watsonville, California, and broadcasts to the counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey. It also has a radio repeater on 94.9 MHz FM in San Luis Obispo County as KPYG (since 2004). The station's logo features a sunglasses-wearing pig in farmer's clothing and a cowboy hat. Its format tends to be Rock, Blues, Folk, Folk/Country and is largely self-determined. In 2001 the station was bought by Mapleton Communications.

KPIG has strong community ties featuring local disc jockeys, local sponsors, local news and commentary, and the Hog Call line, a free community call-in line for leaving recorded announcements that will be played on the air. Much like newspaper classifieds, common "Hog Calls" are regarding items for sale or upcoming community events.

Among its most well known programs are "Cousin Al's Bluegrass Show" on Sunday nights, "Uncle Sherman's Dirty Boogie" on Saturday nights, "Please Stand By" the in-studio live music show, on Sunday mornings. "Please Stand By", hosted by Sleepy John Sandidge, features local and world famous Country, Folk, and Blues acts. The station also hosts several popular music festivals each year including the Humbug Hoedown in December, and is the radio volunteer for the free music festival each October in Golden Gate Park called Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

KPIG is well known worldwide as well. It was one of the first radio stations in the world to webcast their program, going online on August 2, 1995 during Cousin Al's show. Frequently song requests are submitted via e-mail from listeners around the globe. Indirect references to KPIG appear in the songs "I'm Coming Home" by Robert Earl Keen and "Beer Run" (which references the Robert Keen song) by Todd Snider, both of whom are frequently featured on the air and perform at KPIG's events.

In March 2010, KPIG placed its audio stream behind a paywall.^[1] On October 1, 2012, KPIG launched an ad-free "KPIG Online Radio" app in the Apple App Store.^[2] A monthly subscription purchased through the official website is required for streaming.

KFAT

KPIG's predecessor was KFAT, broadcasting out of Gilroy, California from 1976 to 1982. Much of KPIG's founding staff and current on-air personalities worked at KFAT. KFAT specialized in true Country and Folk as well as many off-beat oddities. Archived tapes of broadcasts are still streamed from the KFAT web site.

Related information

Program Director, Laura Ellen Hopper (April 29, 1950-May 28, 2007), had produced a side-project webcast, the Cowboy Cultural Society web site and stream^[3] that plays contemporary and classic Cowboy music.

Former morning disc jockey Dallas Dobro is also the regular mainstage Master of Ceremonies at the twice-annual Strawberry Music Festival in Camp Mather, Yosemite, California. Dobro left the station in 2006 and now resides and works in radio in Petaluma, California.

"Wild" Bill Goldsmith, KPIG's former webmaster, and the person who first put its program on the web, founded Radio Paradise, a webcast of "Eclectic Online Rock".

National syndication

Effective December 31, 2007, radio format syndication firm Dial Global offers KPIG's programming to other stations across the United States via satellite distribution. KPIG's programming is offered to stations as either a primary format, or via a station's HD Radio subchannel.^[4] The format makes KPIG one of only three terrestrial based radio superstations in the United States (WBBR, a business-talk radio network and 660, The Fan, a Sports station, both in New York City, being the others).

References

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KPIG

Radio-Locator information on KPIG

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KPIG

Query the FCC's FM station database for KPYG

Radio-Locator information on KPYG

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KPYG

Radio stations in the Santa Cruz/Monterey/Salinas, California area

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9/89.1/89.1 89.7 89.9 90.3 90.7 90.9 91.1/98.3 91.3 91.3 91.5 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.7 93.9 94.7 95.5 96.3 96.9 97.9 99.1 99.5/99.9 100.7 101.7 102.1 102.5 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 107.1 107.5 107.9

By AM frequency	540 630 880 980 1080 1200 1240 1340 1370 1410 1460 1490 1570

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 162.550

By call sign	K217CQ K234AW KAPU-LP KAZU KBOQ KCDU KDBV KDON-FM KEC49 KEXA KFER KHDC KHIP KHRI KIDD KKHK KKMC KKUP KLOK-FM KLVM KNRY KOCN KOMY KPIG-FM KPRC-FM KRAY-FM KRKC KRKC-FM KRML KRXA KSCO KSEA KSES-FM KSPB KSQL KSRI KTGE KTOM-FM KUSP KWAV KXSM KXZM KYAA KYZZ KZBV KZSC KZSF WWF64

California radio markets Bakersfield Chico Fresno Los Angeles Merced Modesto Oxnard–Ventura Palm Springs Redding Riverside/San Bernardino Sacramento San Diego San Francisco/Oakland San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Santa Cruz/Salinas/Monterey Santa Maria-Lompoc Santa Rosa Stockton Victor Valley Visalia-Tulare-Hanford Other California radio regions Barstow Bishop Crescent City Diablo Valley High Desert/Eastern Sierra Eureka Fort Bragg–Ukiah Gilroy/Hollister Imperial Valley Marysville/Yuba City Needles Red Bluff Susanville/Sierra Nevada Tri-Valley Yreka See also List of radio stations in California

Radio stations in the San Luis Obispo, California market

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.3 90.1/90.9/91.1 91.3 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.9 95.3 96.1 98.1 99.7 100.5 101.3 102.5 103.1 103.3 103.5 104.5 105.3 106.1 106.5 107.3

By AM frequency	660 890 920 1030 1280 1340 1400 1440

By callsign	KCBX KCJZ KCPR KESC KIHC KIQO KJDJ KKAL KKJG KKJL KLFF KLMM KLUN KLVH KPYG KRQZ KSLY-FM KSNI-FM KSTT-FM KTEA KUHL KURQ KVEC KVYB KWVE KWWV KXDZ KXTK KXTZ KYNS KZOZ

Nearby radio markets Bakersfield Fresno Santa Barbara Santa Cruz/Salinas/Monterey Santa Maria-Lompoc Visalia-Tulare-Hanford See also List of radio stations in California

Mapleton Communications

Chico, CA	KALF KFMF KQPT KZAP

Merced, CA	KABX-FM KBRE KGAM KLOQ-FM KTIQ KYOS

Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA	KCDU KHIP KKHK KPIG-FM KWAV

Redding, CA	KNRO KQMS KQMS-FM KRDG KRRX KSHA

Alexandria, LA	KBKK KEZP KLAA-FM

Monroe, LA	KMYY KNNW KXRR KZRZ

Medford, OR	KAKT KBOY-FM KCMX KCMX-FM KTMT KTMT-FM

Spokane, WA	KBBD KDRK-FM KEYF KEYF-FM KGA KJRB KZBD

Other Stations	KSFN (San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose)

Triton Digital (a division of Oaktree Capital Management)

Townsquare Media	Townsquare Media

Superstations in North American markets

Current

Television	KTLA 5 Los Angeles^{1, 2} KWGN-TV 2 Denver¹ WAPA-TV 4 San Juan WGN-TV 9 Chicago² WPCH-TV 17 Atlanta² WPIX 11 New York City² WSBK-TV 38 Boston² WWOR-TV 9 Secaucus, New Jersey/New York City

Radio	KIIS-FM^{4, 5} KPIG-FM WBBR^{4, 5} WFAN WHTZ^{4, 5}

Former

Television	KHTV 39 Houston³ KMSP-TV 9 Minneapolis/St. Paul KPHO-TV 5 Phoenix³ KSHB-TV 41 Kansas City³ KSTW 11 Seattle ³ KTVT 11 Dallas-Fort Worth³ KTVU 2 San Francisco-Oakland³ TBS WKBD-TV 50 Detroit WVTV 18 Milwaukee³ WWOR EMI Service WGN America

Radio	KHMX KNEW WLW WSM WTKS-FM

Subject to availability; all currently operating as superstations are distributed in the United States through the Dish Network satellite service.
¹Available on select cable and satellite providers in the Southwest United States as a regional superstation.
²Available on most Canadian cable and satellite providers.
³Formerly available as a regional superstation.
⁴Available nationally through Sirius Satellite Radio.
⁵Available nationally through XM Satellite Radio.

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