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Radio station in San Diego, California, United States

KSDO
San Diego, California

Broadcast area	San Diego County Tijuana
Frequency	1130 kHz
Branding	Radio Inspiración
Programming
Format	Spanish religious programming
Ownership
Owner	Hi-Favor Broadcasting, LLC
Sister stations	KEZY, KLTX
History
First air date	January 24, 1947
Former call signs	KYOR (1947–1949)
Call sign meaning	San Diego
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	51166
Class	B
Power	Licensed for 10,000 watts day and night from a directional antenna system no longer in use, and operating since 2016 under a Special Temporary Authority for 2,500 watts, non-directional, day and night
Transmitter coordinates	32°43′51″N 117°04′59″W / 32.73083°N 117.08306°W / 32.73083; -117.08306
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.radioinspiracion.com

KSDO is a radio station in San Diego, California, broadcasts at 1130 KHz. The station is licensed for 10,000 watts of power from a directional antenna system, but has been operating since 2016 with 2,500 watts non-directional from a different site. It is owned by Hi-Favor Broadcasting, and airs a Spanish Christian format branded "Radio Inspiración".

History

Early years

The station began broadcasting January 24, 1947, and held the call sign KYOR. It was owned by Silver Gate Broadcasting, and ran 250 watts during daytime hours only.

In 1949, the station was sold to San Diego Broadcasting for $75,000, and its call sign was changed to KSDO. The new owners were required to divest themselves of one station, so KSDO suspended operations. The station had a permit to increase daytime power and add nighttime operations, and San Diego Broadcasting intended to surrender the license of AM 1510 KUSN once construction of KSDO's new facilities was complete. In 1950, the station resumed operations, with its daytime power increased to 5,000 watts and nighttime operations added, running 1,000 watts.

In 1959, the station was sold to Gordon Broadcasting for $500,000. The station aired a beautiful music format in the 1960s.

News talk era

By the early 1970s, KSDO had adopted news-talk format. In 1972, the station was sold to Generation II Radio San Diego, a subsidiary of Firestone Communications, for $2.5 million. In 1976, the station was sold to Pacific and Southern, a subsidiary of Combined Communications, for $1,576,000. Gannett purchased Combined Communications in 1979. Its power was increased to 10,000 watts the same year.

Laurence Gross hosted a midday talk show on KSDO from 1975 to 1983. From 1986 to 1997, former San Diego mayor Roger Hedgecock hosted a program on the station. Danuta Soderman hosted Danuta Time in the late 1980s. Michael Reagan hosted a show from 1989 to 1992. It was an affiliate of NBC Talknet in the 1980s. Syndicated hosts on KSDO over the years included Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy, Larry King, and Tom Leykis. It was also the flagship station of the San Diego Chargers during its "Air Coryell" years. As a talk station, KSDO's ratings were consistently among the top ten stations in San Diego, through 1996.

In 1996, Gannett traded KSDO and five other stations to Jacor Communications for WTSP CBS 10 in Tampa. In 1997, Roger Hedgecock and Rush Limbaugh were moved to KOGO, and the station switched to a financial news-talk format, with programming from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. Ray Lucia hosted middays, later moving to mornings. Syndicated talk shows aired at night. In 2000, syndicated talk programs replaced most financial programming. Hosts included Michael Savage, Phil Hendrie, Lionel, and Larry King. That year, the station was sold to Chase Radio Properties. In late 2001, financial talk programming began to again make up the bulk of the station's daytime schedule.

Spanish Christian era

In 2003, the station was sold to Hi-Favor Broadcasting for $10 million. The station adopted a Spanish language Christian format as an affiliate of Radio Nueva Vida. By 2019, the station disaffiliated from Radio Nueva Vida, but continued to air a Spanish-language Christian format as Radio Inspiración.

In 2016, Hi-Favor Broadcasting obtained a Special Temporary Authority (STA) from the FCC to broadcast with 2,500 watts from a single non-directional wire dropped from a cable hung from the tower of KLSD radio, while a search is conducted for an alternate site. The STA has been extended twice each year since it was originally granted.

References

^ "KYOR on Air", Broadcasting – Telecasting. January 27, 1947. p. 28. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
^ History Cards for KSDO, fcc.gov. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
"Facility Technical Data for KSDO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
"FCC Roundup", Broadcasting – Telecasting. June 13, 1949. p. 62. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
^ "KYOR–KUSN Action", Broadcasting – Telecasting. July 11, 1949. p. 79. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
"Changing hands", Broadcasting. July 27, 1959. p. 54. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
"KSDO Hits 'Daily Double' as AM and FM Outlet", Billboard. March 19, 1966. pp. 20, 24. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
"KSDO's Bright and Beautiful Adult Sound Matches San Diego!", Broadcasting. September 15, 1969. p. 60. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
^ "Firestone acquires KSDO as first broadcast buy", Broadcasting. September 27, 1971. p. 54. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
"Approval for KDSO sale", Broadcasting. January 10, 1972. p. 8. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
"Changing Hands", Broadcasting. September 20, 1976. p. 43. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
Holsendolph, Ernest. "Takeover By Gannett Complete", The New York Times. June 8, 1979. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
Bornstein, Rollye. "Vox Jox", Billboard. March 12, 1983. p. 22. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
Shroder-Murray, Susan. "Ousted ex-mayor new talk show host", United Press International. January 20, 1986. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ Arnold, Thomas K. "Why Did They Fire John Coleman?", San Diego Reader. April 10, 1997. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
Brass, Kevin. "Michael Reagan Opens the Mike and Guess Who Calls?", Los Angeles Times. January 17, 1989. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ Brass, Kevin. "KSDO Replaces Michael Reagan With Rush Limbaugh", Los Angeles Times. January 30, 1992. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
Bornstein, Rollye. "Vox Jox", Billboard. July 16, 1983. p. 25. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Format Changes", The M Street Journal. Vol. 10, No. 24. June 16, 1993. p. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Format Changes & Updates", The M Street Journal. Vol. 11, No. 19. May 11, 1994. p. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"San Diego Chargers play-by-play announcer Tom Kelly has been...", United Press International. March 2, 1983. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
Arnold, Thomas K. "KOGO Switching To News/Talk", Billboard. September 24, 1983. p. 15. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
Duncan, James H. "San Diego: 12+ Metro Share", An American Radio Trilogy 1975 to 2004. Volume 1: The Markets. Duncan's American Radio. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
Taylor, Chuck. "Vox Jox", Billboard. October 5, 1996. p. 101. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Format Changes & Updates", The M Street Journal. Vol. 14, No. 19. May 14, 1997. p. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ "Programming Schedule". KSDO. Archived from the original on August 25, 1999. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
^ "KSDO 1130 – Talk Radio for San Diego". KSDO. Archived from the original on June 16, 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Format Changes & Updates", The M Street Journal. Vol. 17, No. 18. May 3, 2000. p. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Clear Channel spins, cont'd", Broadcasting & Cable. May 15, 2000. p. 57. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"KSDO 1130 – Talk Radio for San Diego". KSDO. Archived from the original on October 20, 2001. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Hinz Chases down another SoCal AM", Radio Business Report. Volume 19, Issue 120. December 26, 2002. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Transactions at a Glance", Radio & Records. January 3, 2003. p. 6. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
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Application Search Details – BAL-20021220ADW, fcc.gov. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Nasdaq Puts Salem On Notice About Board Makeup", InsideRadio. December 19, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
"Radio Inspiración 1390 AM". KLTX. Archived from the original on May 26, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
ENGINEERING EXHIBIT IN SUPPORT OF A REQUEST FOR SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY KSDO – SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 1130 kHz – 2.5 kW DAY/NIGHT – ND-U FACILITY ID: 51166 Applicant: Hi-Favor Broadcasting, LLC January, 2016
KSDO SAN DIEGO CA US AM BROADCAST 1130 kHz, FCCdata.org, March 24, 2020

External links

Official web site
Facility details for Facility ID 51166 (KSDO) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
KSDO in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

Radio stations in the San Diego, California, metropolitan area

By AM frequency

By FM frequency

LPFM	93.7 101.1
Translators	93.7 96.1 K241CH K241CT 98.5 103.3 K277DG K277DH 106.1 106.3

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Digital radio
by frequency & subchannel

By call sign

Defunct

Nearby regions – U.S.: Calexico; Los Angeles; Palm Springs; Riverside-San Bernardino

Mexico: Tijuana

See also: List of radio stations in California

Notes: 1. Audio from channel 6 TV station

v t e Spanish-language radio stations in the state of California
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Defunct	KDBV – Salinas KDDF – Mecca KESQ – Indio KFVR – Crescent City KNCR – Fortuna KSKD – Livingston
See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

Spanish-language radio stations in the state of California

Stations

Defunct

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

See also: Classical; Jazz; Religious; Spanish; Smooth Jazz; Other

v t e Religious radio stations in the state of California
Stations by callsign	KARM KASK KDAR KEZY KFHM KFRS KGDP-FM KGSV KJPG KKLA-FM KKLQ KLTX KLXF KMVS KOCC-LP KOCL-LP KOXC-LP KRDW-LP KRSF KSDO KSFB KTLW KVPW KWIZ KWLK KWTD KWTW KWVE KWVE-FM KZBV
Stations by frequency	1050 1110 1130 1240 1260 1390 88.5 88.5 88.7 88.9 89.3 89.3 89.7 89.9 90.5 90.5 91.3 91.5 91.9 96.7 97.7 98.3 99.5 100.3 101.5 (KOCC-LP) 101.5 (KOCL-LP) 107.3 107.9
Stations by community of license	Anaheim Big Bear City Bishop Carmel Valley Fairfield Frazier Park Lancaster Long Beach Los Angeles Los Angeles Mecca Modesto Moss Beach Oxnard (KDAR) Oxnard (KOCC-LP) Oxnard (KOXC-LP) Pasadena Ridgecrest Ridgecrest San Bernardino San Clemente San Diego San Francisco Santa Ana Santa Maria Smith River Soledad Visalia Westwood
See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in California See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

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