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| Frequency | None — online only (formerly 98.3 MHz on campus) |
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| Programming | |
| Format | Eclectic |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | University of California San Diego |
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First air date | June 1968 |
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| Webcast | ksdt.persona.co |
| Website | ksdt.ucsd.edu |
KSDT is an onlinecollege radio station which refers to itself as "fiercely independentcollege radio". Its facilities are located on the campus of theUniversity of California, San Diego inLa Jolla.
KSDT is completely student-run and operated. Its community comprises staff members, DJs, interns, practice room members, and general fans. The station regularly conducts interviews and studio sessions withSan Diego andSouthern California artists, as well as hosts off-the-airconcerts,open mics andpoetry readings. It publishes a quarterlyzine featuring pictures from recent events, music opinion pieces, and album reviews, as well as community art and poetry.
KSDT is a student-runradio station. Its staff, consisting of ageneral manager, promotions director,two audio engineers,programming director,marketing director,music director,webmaster,secretary, media director anddesign director are all required by KSDT'scharter to be students at UCSD. Each staff member is required to maintain aninternship program, the largest of which being those foraudio engineering andgraphic design. Oversight is provided by the Associated Students (AS) andUCSD administration.
The majority of the organization's staff and budget is devoted to providing apublic service to the surrounding communities by playing music and hosting programming not normally heard elsewhere; usually taking the form of music shows featuringindependent andunderground music from a variety of genres. Whileindierock music and its many subgenres are consistently found being broadcast from KSDT, other genres such asjazz,blues,electronic music,ambient music,experimental,hip hop,world, and others can also be heard on-air. This is not indicative of any preference of music directors, but more on the makeup of its volunteer studentsDJs and the communities they represent. Alongside theChe Cafe, KSDT was a large part of theSan Diego Punk and Hardcore Scene during the 1970s and 1980s.
KSDT does feature an open-door policy for accepting volunteer student DJs. Any UC San Diego student can apply to be accepted into a quarter-long DJ training process, consisting of hands-on training as well as volunteer work. If training is completed, shows are then created in the next quarter for an hour-long time slot during the week.
KSDT also has arecording studio, which runs under the responsibility of the audio engineers. It has mainly been used to record songs and demos for local acts and student musicians, as well as to teach for the audio engineering internship program.
Founded in 1967, KSDT originally was acarrier current andFMcable radio station broadcasting on campus and to local cable TV subscribers. Throughout its history, KSDT has tried multiple times to obtain a terrestrialFM radio license but failed due to strictFederal Communications Commission (FCC) broadcasting laws and its proximity to Mexico, whose stations occupy much of the usual US educational band. It continued to pursue this goal in the 1990s and early 2000s, although has recently preferred being an online station.[1][2][3][4]
As a public service college radio station, the format was largely musical, with somecommunity access programming. Commercial-free, it received funding from the University.
In 1999 it moved to become an internet radio station. In 2000 and 2001, it split with its "sister station" SRTV (student-run television).
Its currentmission statement in part "strives to promote independent music not available from other sources and works to help the San Diego Community as well."[5]
The recording studio on its premises was used to record and broadcast live many independent bands such as aMiniature,Rookie Card,Skeletor,The Locust,Estradasphere,Dressy Bessy,The Robot Ate Me,Creedle, Sub Society, Milestone, etc.
Artists such asLemmy fromMotörhead,Björk,The Flaming Lips,The Meat Puppets,Screaming Trees,Mogwai,Fugazi, and others have recorded station identifications for KSDT in the past.
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strives to promote independent music not available from other sources and works to help the San Diego Community as well.
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