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) is a
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AM
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in
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. The station airs a
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and is owned by
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The station's
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s and offices are located in San Diego's
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neighborhood on the northeast side. Originally known as KFWV, the station operated as an
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affiliate under the KFSD
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from 1926 to 1961, when it was changed to KOGO. KOGO transmits with 5,000
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s both day and night; as the AM signal is one of the strongest in
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. KOGO uses a
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with its two-
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located off 60th Street at Old Memory Lane in the Emerald Hills neighborhood of San Diego. The signal pattern generally follows the Pacific Coast from Baja California, Mexico, to Santa Barbara. Because of its reach, KOGO is one of the primary
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(EAS) stations for the San Diego
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. The
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antenna is at the top of one of two towers, the
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antenna being at the top of the other. KOGO is the first, and the only AM, radio station in the San Diego market to broadcast in
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. The station is
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on 94.1
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-HD2 .


History


KFWV and KFSD

The station was originally licensed on June 30,
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. It broadcast at 1320
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s, powered at 250 watts, from the top of the U.S. Grant Hotel. The
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was KFWV. In 1926, the callsign changed to KFSD and the station moved down the dial to 620 AM. KFSD stood for First in San Diego, as the station was the first commercially licensed station in the city. (KFBC/KGB was an amateur station that was not full-time.) In 1928, KFSD was facing bankruptcy, so it was sold to Thomas Sharp (who founded
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in San Diego). (A station in Escondido, not related to this station, now uses the
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callsign.) In 1931, KFSD became an affiliate of the
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. It carried NBC's dramas, comedies, news, sports,
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s,
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s and
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broadcasts during the "
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." KFSD was owned by the Airfan Radio Corporation. In the 1930s, the station also moved to its current frequency of 600 kHz. In 1939, KFSD was slated to move its studios from the U.S. Grant Hotel to a former country club east of downtown called Emerald Hills. But the station did not move until 1948 due to the proximity of Emerald Hills to the Chollas Naval towers. In 1948, when KFSD moved to Emerald Hills, the facility was outfitted with top quality equipment, primarily from
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. Emerald Hills was built to completely house the KFSD studios, transmitter, and offices. From Emerald Hills, San Diego's first FM station signed on the air in 1948: KFSD-FM (now
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). KFSD-FM largely simulcast the AM station. Then in 1953, KFSD-TV (now
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) became the third TV station to sign on the air in San Diego, at channel 10 on the VHF band. Because KFSD 600 was an NBC Radio affiliate, KFSD-TV also carried NBC television programs.


KOGO

In 1961, 600 KFSD was changing formats, so management also decided to change the call letters. The owners at the time fed facts about San Diego and its people into a new device called a computer, which was then asked to give them the perfect call sign for the station. The IBM computer gave them the call letters KOGO. Thus, in 1961 the San Diego station known as KOGO (pronounced "Ko-Go") was born. In 1972, Time Life Broadcasting (owners of KOGO-AM-FM-TV since 1961) decided to sell its San Diego broadcast properties. Due to FCC regulations at the time the stations had to be split off. 600 KOGO was sold to Retlaw (Walter spelled backwards) which was
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's broadcast division. Channel 10 was sold to McGraw Hill Publishing and the call letters were changed to KGTV (which stands for KOGO-TV). The station at 94.1 FM got back the call sign KFSD, but was sold many times over. It was primarily a
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station. The FM outlet changed its call letters to KFSD, then KXGL (for the Eagle), then to KJQY (for "K-Joy"), and finally in 2001 to
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. The AM station changed its branding to ''KOGO Radio 60'', then to ''KOGO Radio 6'', then to ''KOGO Radio 6, the radio magazine''. It had a mixed format of middle of the road (MOR) music, talk and sports.


KLZZ and KKLQ

The Shadacks (Ed and his nephew Tom) took over KOGO and 106.5 KPRI, but both stations had poor ratings in the early 1980s. In 1983 both stations changed to KLZZ-AM-FM (using the name "Class FM/AM") with a
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format. But Class struggled in the ratings. Edens Broadcasting bought the stations and turned them into Top 40/CHR KKLQ-AM-FM, using the moniker "Q106." Most music listening for young people had switched to FM by this point. But the signal for AM 600 was able to serve the remaining listeners who only had AM radios in their cars, or lived in Northern San Diego County where the FM's signal is spotty. The station sometimes would mention that AM 600 could be heard in Los Angeles and Orange County.


Return to KOGO

In the early 1990s, Par Broadcasting purchased the stations and ended the simulcast, flipping the AM station to a
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format on April 25, 1994. Par bought back the call letters KOGO for 600 AM. The KOGO call sign, during the hiatus, was used in
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on the 1590 AM frequency (now
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). At that time, 1590 was owned by Jack Woods (formerly Charlie of Charlie and Harrigan on KFMB and
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). In 1997, Par Broadcasting sold its San Diego stations to
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/
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, which in turn merged with
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. Clear Channel became
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in 1999. KOGO was reunited with its original FM sister in 1998 when Jacor/Citicasters purchased the radio properties of
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, including 94.1 FM. On October 14, 2014, KOGO added three news blocks to its program schedule. Over time, the news block in morning
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has remained but the midday and afternoon news blocks have been switched to talk programming. In May 2009, KOGO's newscasts outside of morning and early evening were being produced by Los Angeles sister station 640
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. It was also disclosed that some newscasts in the evening were prerecorded.


California wildfires

During the
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, news, information, and talk from KOGO was simulcast on every San Diego-area station owned by Clear Channel. This continued from the night of October 21 to the evening of October 24. KOGO dropped all commercial breaks during this period. KOGO was also simulcast on Channel 24/7 of
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, which the service used for
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information. Regular programming on KOGO returned on the night of October 24 at 11 p.m. with the syndicated ''
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''.


95.7 simulcast

KOGO programming began simulcasting on 95.7 KUSS on November 7, 2011. Management saw fewer young and middle-aged listeners switching to AM so the plan was KOGO would gain younger listeners by being on the FM dial. The simulcast ended on November 16, 2012, at 7 p.m., when KOGO-FM began stunting with
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. After Christmas it switched to
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music as KSSX. The combined ratings of AM 600 and FM 95.7 didn't make the simulcast as profitable as keeping the AM as a news/talk outlet and switching the FM to a music format.


Programming

Weekdays begin with "San Diego's Morning News" with Ted Garcia and LaDona Harvey. In middays, KOGO airs nationally syndicated shows from co-owned
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and
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. Late afternoon and evening
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features local shows from
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, Lou Penrose, Darren Smith and Jack Cronin. In late nights and early mornings, KOGO carries "
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with
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" and "
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." Weekends feature shows on money, health, faith and technology. Weekend hosts include
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,
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and "
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with Neil Saavedra." Most hours begin with world and national news from
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.


Sports

KOGO was the co-
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of the
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of the now-defunct
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alongside co-owned 1360
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. The AAF did not complete its inaugural 2019 season. Until the 2012–2013 academic year, KOGO was the official broadcast home for the
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and men's basketball programs. However, some basketball games were transferred to
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if the football team was also playing at the same time, or if it was a weekday early-evening game on the West Coast. With the 2013–2014 season, Aztec football and basketball games began airing on
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(The Mighty 1090). KOGO carried
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games from the team's debut in the
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in
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through
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, then again in the early 2000s, before losing the rights to XEPRS-AM in
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. KOGO was also the radio home of the
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in the early 1980s.
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handled play-by-play with Pat Curran in the booth. Pre- and post-game show duties were handled by
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and
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. The games were eventually simulcast on
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(106.5 FM). In
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, XETRA took the broadcast rights and Leitner was replaced by
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, who had come in from
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.


References


External links


FCC History Cards for KOGO
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