KYLD

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KYLD

City of license	San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose
Broadcast area	San Francisco Bay Area
Branding	"WiLD 94.9"
Slogan	The Bay Areas Party Station
First air date	1958
Frequency	94.9 (MHz)
Format	Rhythmic Top 40
ERP	30,000 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	YLD (a play on Wild)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	www.wild949.com/

KYLD is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco bay area on 94.9 FM.

KYLD airs a rhythmic Top 40 music format on its analog and HD Radio primary channel.

In January 2006, KYLD added a HD Radio subcarrier, WiLD en Espanol. The station targets a Hispanic audience with a commercial-free, jockless Rhythmic Dance format.

1 History
2 Program (Monday - Thursday)
3 Program (Friday)
4 Program (Friday night- Saturday)
5 Program (Saturday night- Sunday)
6 Personalities
7 External links

[edit] History

[edit] The "Original" KSAN

This station was home to legendary freeform rock station KSAN from the late 1960s until around 1980, when they switched to country music. The KSAN call letters eventually went to 107.7 FM in a frequency swap that brought KYLD to 94.9.

[edit] KSOL

In the 1970s, an Urban/R&B station operated on 107.7 and was known as KSOL (K-Soul). It was successful for years until 1988 when the station's ratings began to slip due to competition from KMEL, then a Top 40 format station which flipped from a rock format.

[edit] WILD 107

KYLD originally started the format at 107.7 (licensed to San Mateo, California, and previously known as KSOL) in 1992, When changing formats from KSOL to WILD 107 the station played "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc for 3 days straight. Program Director Rick Thomas and Music Director Michael Martin were the original team that attempted to dethrone 106 KMEL. They came with a strategy of playing "old school" and up tempo freestyle/dance cuts like those heard on Heritage San Jose radio station HOT 97.7.

[edit] Since 1997

In 1997, KYLD switched frequencies from 107.7 to 94.9 giving it more signal coverage. The station's music mix includes current R&B/Hip-Hop, Dance and Rhythmic Pop product, along with personality-driven DJs and mixers. "WiLD" 94.9, and before it KSOL 107.7, was formerly broadcasted to the San Francisco Bay Area's African-American residents, but the station has now targeted mainly Latino youths. The move was due to the 1996 pairing of KYLD with rival KMEL when Chancellor Media bought that station. Before that, KMEL was another Rhythmic formatted station but was already an unofficial Urban station (due to promoting its own local artists); after the buyout it shifted to an official Urban format.

[edit] Weekly Programs

[edit] Program (Monday - Thursday)

6 am - 10 am- The T-Man show
11 am - 3 pm- Christie
3 pm - 7 pm- St. John's playhouse
7 pm - 1 am- Joe Breezy
1 am - 6 am- late night music (no dj's)

[edit] Program (Friday)

6-10 am- The T-Man show
11 am - 3 pm- Christie
3 pm - 7 pm- Joe Breezy
8 pm- 10 pm- The Launch
10 pm - 12 am- Mistah F.A.B.'s Yellow Bus Radio

[edit] Program (Friday night- Saturday)

12 am - 3am- The Baka Boyz
3 am - 10 am- all music (no dj's)
10 am - 3 pm- Christie
3 pm - 6 pm- Angel
6 pm - 10 pm- Saturday Night Street Party with Joe Breezy
10 pm- 12 am- Jimmy Weava

[edit] Program (Saturday night- Sunday)

12 am - 1 am- Jimmy Weava or Pacheco
1 am - 10 am- all music (no dj's)
10 am - 2 pm- Victor Zaragoza
2 pm - 7 pm- Angel
7 pm - 12 am- Sunday Night Oldies Show with Xavier the X-Man

[edit] Personalities

Some of the disc jockeys in KYLD's history include: The Dog House, Mancow Muller, JoJo Wright, Renee Taylor, Xavier the X Man, Geoff St. John.

[edit] External links

FM radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area region (Arbitron #4)
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