Official KLSD 1360 Press Release (Aug 21, 2004)

The new KLSD website is up and running after some construction work.

From Clear Channel Communications, San Diego, Aug. 20:

Clear Channel Communications San Diego press release: Clear Channel Radio announced today the launch of KLSD AM 1360, San Diego’s Progressive Talk Station, featuring Air America Radio Network programming beginning Monday, August 23, 2004.

The new “progressive” talk format is a radical new talk format in the San Diego Radio market. The station was created to utilize a combination of local and nationally renowned personalities that reflect the viewpoint of a large segment of the San Diego community.

"San Diego has been clamoring for a new talk radio station like this and we think our mixture of Stacy Taylor along with some of Air America Radio's personalities like Al Franken and other progressive talk show hosts will satisfy that need," said Cliff Albert, Program Director, KLSD AM 1360.

“We are excited about coming to San Diego,” said Doug Kreeger, CEO of Air America Radio. “This city now has an opportunity to voice its local and national concerns. In other parts of the country we found that a strong loyalty to Air America Radio was quickly established. We have a successful track record with our partners at Clear Channel that we are confident will be extended to San Diego.”

The following is the KLSD AM 1360 Radio weekday programming line-up:

(for those keeping score, D.T. nailed the 6am-NOON and 6pm-MID programming lineup predictions!)

6-9am: Stacy Taylor Show, streaming live on http://www.1360klsd.com/ with Marilyn Hyder and Scot "Scooter" Tempesta.

Stacy Taylor is live and local and San Diego's leading "progressive voice"...an alternative to all the "blow-hard" conservatives.Stacy lives and breathes the San Diego lifestyle and is a proven winner in Talk Radio...having commanded ratings at WLS in Chicago, KING in Seattle and various talk radio stations in San Diego. Taylor, who holds a journalism degree from the University of Florida, also makes news and has been the subject of dozens of articles in more than 20 newspapers and magazines around the country. In 2003, Stacy won the "Best of Show" San Diego Press Club award for radio talk shows.

9am-noon: The Al Franken Show

Al Franken, a master of many mediums, is set to do for radio what he and his not-ready-for-prime-time cohorts did for television when they created Saturday Night Live three decades ago: make it funny. The only winner of five Emmy and two Grammy awards, Franken is also the author of four New York Times best-sellers, including his latest, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The Al Franken Show picks up where Lies left off, tracking the Bush administration and their cronies in the right-wing media, and then using their lies and distortions to heap scorn and ridicule upon them. Simply stated, "That’s what I do."

noon-3pm: Ed Shultz Show

In an industry where the conservative voice is the norm, Schultz's popularity, talent and progressive political bent has made him one of the dominant radio voices of the nation. Schultz's fearless approach to going voice-to-voice against other conservative radio heavyweights, has helped him earn the overwhelming support of listeners, powerful politicos and top-level business leaders. Broadcasting from the heart of America in Fargo, The Ed Schultz Show debuted on January 5, 2004, and is now heard on more than 30 markets across the nation, along with both XM and Sirius satellite radio.

3-6pm: Randi Rhodes Show

Randi’s radio talk shows are legendary and she comfortably plays the dual roles of comic relief or pillar of reality, especially when she rallies around ideas that people rarely express out loud. Her life is an open book and people tune in to hear the pages turn. She holds nothing back and has an uncanny talent to transform complex ideas into simple concepts. In a purely entertaining way, and with unflinching candor, listeners find her opinions, ones they never thought were theirs, soon are! Despite her sometimes self-deprecating approach, Randi has full bragging rights to having once been voted Most Outstanding Woman in the Air Force, in addition to receiving the American Women in Radio and Television award for Best Entertainment Programming.

6pm-9pm: On The Money with Ray Lucia tape

Broadcast in more than sixty markets across the country, "The Ray Lucia Show" is a show about your life! It is money radio's most upbeat, fast-paced, sophisticated and highly entertaining show, appealing to listeners of all ages. Noted as "A Rising Star in Talk Radio in America in 2001" by Radio and Records Magazine, Ray Lucia, Certified Financial Planner™, along with his BrainTrust," hosts "The Ray Lucia Show" tackling listener questions regarding "Your money. Your business. Your life." The show is very unique in the sense that Ray combines his financial advice with humor and rock-n-roll, (which is not heard very often), appealing to a broad base of listeners. The show provides an open forum for listeners to address all financial concerns; receiving answers to their particular questions live on the radio and on-line regarding money, taxes, business, investments and personal finance.

9pm-MID: Lionel Weekkday Show tape

Lionel is a man of many hats and careers. During his lifetime -- a trial lawyer, ex-prosecutor, talk-radio veteran, stand up comedian and bluegrass musician. If you enjoy improvisational discussion, divergent opinion, arcane words and a totally impromptu and refreshing style of talk, then you will enjoy Lionel. If, however, you seek and enjoy predictable, bland, cookie cutter talk, then you're out of luck. Tune-in and find out for yourself! The Lionel show began on January 3, 2000. The show, airing live Monday through Friday from 10 PM to 1 AM and Saturday from 5 PM to 8 PM (both Eastern Time) is an eclectic mixture of current events and off-the-wall topics infused with Lionel’s special brand of humor. Lionel’s form of radio is topical, dynamic and funny. A raconteur and master of the English language, he engages his listeners daily with his rapid-fire delivery and offbeat takes on the day’s top issues. Lionel has been named one of the 100 Most Important Talk Show Hosts in the country by Talkers Magazine. He appears regularly on a variety of national television programs and networks including CNN and MSNBC.

MID-3am: Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo

The Majority Report, hosted by actress and activist Janeane Garofalo and actor-director Sam Seder, takes a jaundiced look at the day’s news, the nation’s newsmakers and the unquestioning media which inundate us with a steady stream of conformist coverage. Featuring guests from Washington, Hollywood and our own backyard, The Majority Report hopes to prove that our side just got a little bit louder and a whole lot funnier.

3-6am: Morning Sedition

Stay up late, or get up early, for the Morning Sedition with hosts Mark Riley and Marc Maron. Each weekday, The Morning Sedition will give you the day’s headlines and political news, without that annoying, smiley, blow-dried double-talk the other media use to avoid offending anyone. Without a doubt, Mark and Marc serve mornings up the way you like it: In context, with a healthy dollop of absurdity on top and a side order of subversion.

“There has never been a progressive talk radio format like ‘KLSD AM 1360’ in the San Diego radio community,” said Kelly Kibler, VP & Market Manager for Clear Channel Radio San Diego. “We found a talk radio niche that is under represented in this market and attracts an extremely enlightened and affluent audience. At a local level we try to develop products that reflect the voice of the community and the people we serve. We think KLSD AM 1360 will represent that audience.”

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CLEAR CHANNEL Adult Standards KPOP-A/SAN DIEGO spent all day FRIDAY saying farewell to the market in preparation for MONDAY's debut of an all-liberal Talk format. Market mainstay JERRY G. BISHOP, chatting with SDRADIO.NET's CHRIS CARMICHAEL, noted that the call letters will be KLSD (CARMICHAEL quipped "That'll be a trip") and BISHOP said that he and the staff had not been told of the change before AIR AMERICA RADIO's RANDI RHODES went on the air to tell her national audience that the network had signed up with a SAN DIEGO station in early JULY.

The new lineup includes sister KOGO-A evening host STACY TAYLOR sliding to mornings on the new station, AIR AMERICA's AL FRANKEN and RHODES, and JONES' ED SCHULTZ.

KPOP's not the only CLEAR CHANNEL station flipping to liberal talk on MONDAY, as WHNE-A/ANN ARBOR picks up AIR AMERICA RADIO programming in place of the former Oldies "HONEY RADIO" format. The company says it will add the format to at least two stations in top 25 markets within the next 60 days.

Fun with Slogans for KLSD (Aug 21, 2004)

First they came up with the calls KUSS for 95.7, which is, of course, should stand for U.S. Something or something. KLSD they say, whoever they are (the Van Pattens?), stand for Liberal San Diego. Was someone there trying to make one of his dreams during his hippie days come true?

Back until 1982, the frequency of AM 1360 was known as KGB-AM, the sister of KGB-FM, which played a lot of psychedelic rock songs from the drugged out late 60s era back then.

I just can't help but to make fun of this station's call letters.

Some possible new slogans for KLSD 1360:

KLSD - a station Timothy Leary would be proud of...in call letters at least.

KLSD - take a trip and never leave San Diego.

KLSD - making the folks at KPCP very jealous!

KLSD - get high without any money!

Official Non-Announcement KOGO Lineup Announcement (August 21, 2004)

If you want to read and hear the Cliff Notes announcement, click here: http://www.kogo.com/features03.html
And look for
"08/20: May I Have Your Attention Please..."

Listen at 7:25am every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings on San Diego's First News as KOGO's Cliff Albert comments on the news in his unique and insightful way. KOGO's "Cliff Notes on the News" commentaries have won three Golden Mikes and several other top awards for news and sports commentaries in Southern California from the Radio-TV News Association, the San Diego Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.