KWFN (97.3
FM) – branded as 97.3 The Fan – is a
commercial
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sports
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radio station
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licensed to serve
San Diego
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,
California
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. Owned by
Audacy, Inc.
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, the station covers both the
Greater San Diego
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market and the
San Diego–Tijuana
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transborder agglomeration, and is the flagship station for the
San Diego Padres
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Radio Network, in addition to being the market affiliate for
CBS Sports Radio
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CBS Sports Radio is owned by Paramount Global and distributed by Westwood One. Programmin ...
.
The KWFN studios are located in San Diego's Stonecrest neighborhood, while the main station transmitter resides in San Diego's
Emerald Hills neighborhood; to expand KWFN's overall reach, the station also utilizes a series of
booster relays synchronized with the main signal. In addition to a standard
analog transmission
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, KWFN and the booster relay network broadcast over three
HD Radio
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digital subchannel
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s, and is available online via
Audacy
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.
History
Country (1964-2017)
97.3 first
signed on
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* Signature
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as KSEA on January 15, 1964. It was owned by Broodmoor Broadcasting, along with KSON (1240 AM). The two stations
simulcast
Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programmes/programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultane ...
their programming. In its early days, KSEA was powered at 25,000 watts, using an antenna at only 220 feet in
height above average terrain
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. Today, KWFN's power and antenna height are double that of KSEA.
In 1967, 97.3 began its long run as a
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
station, still simulcast with its AM
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
. In 1975, the station
call sign
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was changed to KSON-FM to match its co-owned AM station. KSON-FM had previously been used on stations at 101.5 and at 105.3.
In 1985,
Jefferson-Pilot Communications
Lincoln Financial Media was a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation that owned radio stations in the United States. The division was formed in 2006 following the company's acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot's television and radio operations, whi ...
acquired KSON-AM-FM. The company filed an application in 1989 to construct a single full-on repeater to help improve KSON-FM's coverage in the rapidly growing suburbs of Northern San Diego County. Plans were cancelled in 1991. In 2003, Jefferson-Pilot instead acquired another station at
92.1 FM
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Argentina
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* Cadena 3 Villa Mercedes in Villa Mercedes, San Luis
* Cielo in Salta
* Concierto in San Genaro, Santa Fe
* Estación Serrano ...
, licensed to
Escondido, and converted it into a simulcast for KSON-FM to cover Northern San Diego County. The new repeater's call sign became KSOQ-FM, similar to KSON-FM's call letters.
Jefferson-Pilot became
Lincoln Financial Media
Lincoln Financial Media was a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation that owned radio stations in the United States. The division was formed in 2006 following the company's acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot's television and radio operations, whi ...
when it was acquired by the
Lincoln Financial Group
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in 2006.
In 2007, KSON-FM was nominated for the "Top 25
Markets
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* Market economy
*Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Geography
*Märket, a ...
Country Music Station of The Year" award by the
Radio & Records magazine. Other nominees included
WUSN
WUSN (99.5 FM) is a country radio station in Chicago, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc. and branded as "US✶99", it is based at Two Prudential Plaza in the Loop, and transmits from atop the John Hancock Center with an HD Radio signal.
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Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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,
KYGO-FM
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Denver
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,
WYCD
WYCD (99.5 FM, "New Country 99-5 YCD") is a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, owned by Audacy, Inc. WYCD's offices and studios are located at Audacy's Detroit facility on American Drive in Southfield, Michigan. WYCD's transmitter is located i ...
Detroit
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,
KEEY-FM
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Minneapolis
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, and
WXTU
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Philadelphia
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.
On March 1, 2009, the station dropped the FM suffix and became KSON, as the AM station was sold and changed its call letters to KNSN.
In January 2014, in honor of the January 31 San Diego stop on
George Strait
George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. Strait is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. In the 1980s, he was credited for ...
's
farewell tour
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, KSON temporarily re-branded as "George FM". The station added more George Strait music to its
playlist
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, and held on-air giveaways of memorabilia and tickets to the San Diego show.
On December 8, 2014,
Entercom
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media ...
announced its acquisition of KSON's parent company
Lincoln Financial Media
Lincoln Financial Media was a subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation that owned radio stations in the United States. The division was formed in 2006 following the company's acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot's television and radio operations, whi ...
. The transaction was approved on July 17, 2015.
Top 40 (2017-2018)
Three years later, Entercom merged with
CBS Radio
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on November 17, 2017. KSON's simulcast partner
KSOQ-FM was spun off to the
Educational Media Foundation
Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville.
EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest ...
to comply with
FCC
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ownership caps.
The merger placed KSON in common ownership with
Top 40/CHR-formatted
KEGY, ''Energy 103-7'' – which had a better signal in Northern San Diego County, home to most of KSON’s core audience. Immediately after the merger closed, the country format was moved to 103.7; for the next three days, 97.3
stunted
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with a message loop redirecting listeners to the new frequency. On November 20, the station assumed 103.7's CHR format and branding as ''Energy 97-3''.
In January 2018, KEGY moved out of its longtime Linda Vista studios and relocated to Stonecrest.
Hot talk (2018)
Following the move of ''Energy'' to 97.3, KEGY's ratings nosedived, from a 2.2 share to a 1.0 in the
Nielsen Audio
Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by mergin ...
ratings. In February 2018, Entercom announced it had hired former
''Mighty 1090'' morning host
Dan Sileo
Daniel William Sileo (born January 3, 1963) is a former American football defensive tackle. He played college football at Maryland before transferring to Miami (FL). He was drafted in the third round of the 1987 NFL supplemental draft by the Ta ...
; he was slated to host a new program on one of Entercom's San Diego stations, with Sileo saying on social media that he would be able to talk about "anything".
On February 19, the
San Diego Padres
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announced that the team's radio broadcasts would move from sister station
KBZT
KBZT (94.9 FM, "Alt 94-9") is a commercial radio station licensed to San Diego, California. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station broadcasts an alternative rock format. Its studios are located in San Diego's Stonecrest area, and the transmitter is ...
to KEGY for the 2018 season, intensifying speculation that Entercom intended to flip 97.3 to a
sports radio
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format.
On March 1, 2018, at 2 p.m., KEGY began
stunting with rock music and no imaging, although notably playing "
Welcome to the Machine
"Welcome to the Machine" is the second song on Pink Floyd's 1975 album ''Wish You Were Here''. It features heavily processed synthesizers and acoustic guitars, as well as a wide range of tape effects. Both the music and the lyrics were written b ...
" by
Pink Floyd
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at the top of each hour. Two days later, KEGY flipped to
hot talk
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as ''97.3 The Machine''. Its daytime lineup on weekdays featured Dan Sileo at midday, and ''The Men's Room'' from
KISW
KISW (99.9 FM) – branded 99.9 KISW, The Rock of Seattle – is a commercial mainstream rock radio station licensed to Seattle, Washington. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves the Seattle metropolitan area; live shows include ''The Me ...
/
Seattle
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in afternoon drive. Blocks of
classic rock
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music interspersed with comedy bits were broadcast on nights and weekends. The station would carry coverage of San Diego Padres games, with hour-long pre- and post-game shows.
A morning show, ''Kevin Klein Live'' (moving from sister station
KITS Kits may refer to:
* Kitsilano, a neighbourhood of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*Kits, an American taffy candy made by Gilliam Candy Company
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/San Francisco) was scheduled to premiere on March 29, 2018.
The 103.7 frequency had previously aired a hot talk format as part of CBS Radio's former
Free FM
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network.
''Kevin Klein Live'' controversy
A promotional campaign for ''Kevin Klein Live'' featured social media posts containing the slogan "JUMP ... to a new morning show". One of the ads featured this caption on a photograph of the
San Diego–Coronado Bridge
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. Listeners considered this ad to be insensitive, as the second-largest number of
suicide deaths from bridge jumping in the U.S. have occurred on the bridge.
The campaign resulted in calls for the Padres to cut their ties with Entercom. The team issued a statement the next day, condemning the ad as being "offensive, insensitive and completely unacceptable." The team said the expansion of Padres coverage was planned before the team learned the full extent of the format changes, and requested that Entercom apologize for Klein's behavior.
Padres chairman
Ron Fowler
Ronald Lee Fowler (born July 23, 1944) is an American businessman. He is the vice chairman of the ownership group of the San Diego Padres franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB) and CEO of Liquid Investments Inc., a San Diego beer distributorship ...
criticized 97.3's new format as being "almost
shock jock
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radio" and contradictory to his opinion that baseball is "family entertainment." Fowler said the team would reevaluate its relationship with KEGY.
The photographer of the bridge image also accused the station of having used it without permission.
Klein issued a public apology for the ads, stating that "I know I've upset many people in America's Finest City, and this is something I regret. The comment was reprehensible and inexcusable. I've failed at making a good first impression, but I hope that you will give me another chance to provide entertainment and good-natured laughs when I go on the air on Thursday morning. Once again, I apologize to all the listeners and the city of San Diego."
The program's premiere, meant to coincide with
Opening Day
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, was cancelled, while a promotional party at a local sports bar was also axed by the venue.
Neither Entercom or Klein made any public statements regarding the program or if it would premiere at all. Klien has since moved to
KROQ
KROQ-FM (106.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, serving Greater Los Angeles. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock format known as "The World Famous KROQ" (pronounced "kay-rock").
The st ...
in Los Angeles, first hosting afternoons with
Ted Stryker before taking over the morning drive slot in 2021.
Sports talk (2018-present)
On April 11, 2018, Entercom announced that it would drop ''The Machine'' and its hot talk format, and would relaunch KEGY as a conventional sports talk station, ''97.3 The Fan'', at 5 a.m. the following day. Entercom San Diego market manager Bob Bolinger said the company had used the Kevin Klein controversy as an opportunity to reevaluate KEGY's programming, and explained that "the station was always going to be largely about sports and we determined the right thing to do was to go 100% all-in." Padres chairman Ron Fowler was pleased that Entercom was willing to address the team's concerns surrounding the station's content, and that the revamp "better reflects the values of the Padres and the San Diego community as a whole." As part of the relaunch, Dan Sileo was moved to mornings, ''The Men's Room'' was dropped, and the station also acquired ''
The Jim Rome Show
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'' previously heard on
XEPRS. ''
The Doug Gottlieb Show
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The show was formerly on ESPN Radio from 2006-2012. Since debuting on November 13, 2006, the host of the prog ...
'' was also picked up for the weekday lineup.
On May 2, 2018, KEGY changed call letters to KWFN to coordinate with the new branding as "The Fan." Many of Entercom's other sports outlets are also branded as "The Fan," including original all-sports station
WFAN
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in
New York City
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.
In the first three months of the all-sports format, KWFN was among the lowest-rated stations in the market, with Sileo's morning show unable to tabulate a
Nielsen Audio
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rating due to its small number of listeners. The Padres' last-place standing during the 2018 season also hindered the station's ratings.
On April 17, 2019, Sileo left KWFN's morning show but remained with Entercom, hosting a weekend program on co-owned
WEEI-FM
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in
Boston
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. Sileo was replaced by "Coach" John Kentera but nobody could stand him and his bigotry. ''
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, ''The San Diego Union'' and ...
'' speculated that Sileo's departure was tied to listener backlash surrounding plans to have Padres staff members appear on his show for interviews on Friday mornings.
Ben Higgins and Steven Woods (formerly of ''The Mighty 1090'' XEPRS) became KWFN's morning hosts on June 10. John Kentera was moved to early afternoons.
Also beginning in 2019, KWFN joined the
Navy Football Radio Network.
Boosters
In 2019, Entercom received
construction permit
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s for five fill-in
boosters to improve KWFN's coverage, to be located near
La Jolla
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La Jolla is surrounded on ...
,
Ramona
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,
San Marcos
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Towns and cities Argentina
* San Marcos, Salta
Colombia
* San Marcos, Antioquia
* San Marcos, Sucre
Costa Rica
* San Marcos, Costa Rica (aka San Marcos de Tarrazú)
...
,
Escondido, and
Encinitas
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. These signals are expected to be operational by 2022.
Programming
Current
KWFN is the
flagship station of the
San Diego Padres
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, with The Fan having local rights to
Westwood One
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's
NFL and
NCAA
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packages.
Previous
Previous hosts on The Fan include
Dan Sileo
Daniel William Sileo (born January 3, 1963) is a former American football defensive tackle. He played college football at Maryland before transferring to Miami (FL). He was drafted in the third round of the 1987 NFL supplemental draft by the Ta ...
, who left in April 2019.
HD Programming
The station operates three
HD Radio
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channels; The HD1 channel is the digitized standard signal, as required by law. The current other HD channels are listed below:
* HD2
active rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...
''The Angry Playlist''
* HD3
sports betting
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''The Bet''
Previous HD channels:
*HD2 ''Until February 2018'':
Alternative music Alternative music may refer to the following types of music:
*Alternative rock
*Alternative pop
*Alternative R&B
*Neo soul, sometimes known as alternative soul
*Alternative reggaeton
*Alternative hip hop
*Alternative dance
*Alternative metal
*Chris ...
, via a simulcast of
KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM (106.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, serving Greater Los Angeles. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock format known as "The World Famous KROQ" (pronounced "kay-rock").
The stat ...
Los Angeles
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, ''Until the format swap'':
classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...
Nashville Legends.
*HD3 ''Until February 2018'':
dance hits
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History
The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic ...
House of Sophie. Moved here concurrently with the format swap.
*HD3 ''Until October 2021'':
comedy
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Funny FM.
References
External links
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