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BREAKING NEWS! CBS Radio Buys UCSD (Apr 1, 2007)Hot from the heels of rival SDSU getting a contract with Clear Channel radio to broadcast its slate of football and basketball games, CBS Radio, which operates KYXY and FREE-FM locally, has one-upped Clear Channel by purchasing an entire university.University of California San Diego, bordering the south end of Torrey Pines, the north end of La Jolla, and the east end of University Heights, has been sold to CBS Radio including the rights to broadcast all of their sports teams. One upside of the deal: UCSD is finally getting a college football team as well as a basketball team. Can you say "The UCSD Koalas?" CBS Radio plans to broadcast the Koala college football and basketball games on FREE-FM this fall as UCSD is already opened up fall training for the prospective atheletes who wish to make the first lineup ever of the Koalas football team. With SDSU moving their games to KOGO, and USD planning to have their games on XX Sports, UCSD will be the third locally-based college football team after them, and with vertical alignment with CBS Radio, there may be some times when all three games will be on opposite each other. Says a representative of CBS Radio who agreed to be quoted on the condition that he remain anonymous... |