- KDIA
Infobox Radio station
name = KDIA
city =Vallejo, California
area =San Francisco Bay Area /Sacramento
branding = "1640 KDIA"
slogan = "The Light for San Francisco"
airdate = April 1998
frequency = 1640 kHz
format =Christian
power = 10,000watt s (unlimited)
class = B
callsign_meaning = named after former sister stationWDIA
owner =
webcast =
website = http://www.kdia.com/
affiliations =
sister_stations =KDIA (1640 AM) is a radio station in
Vallejo, California . It is a separate entity from the station at 1310 AM that held the KDIA call letters for many years. The 1640 AM frequency was licensed as part of an extension of theAM band in 1998, and adopted the abandoned KDIA call letters then.KDIA History
The 1310 AM frequency began as KLS in 1921. In 1945, it changed its call letters to KWBR and changed its format to focus on an
African-American audience. In 1959, it was bought by the owners of Memphis radio stationWDIA , and the call letters were changed to KDIA. During the 1960s through the 1980s, the station was the premier soul andfunk station in theSan Francisco Bay Area . The station helped launch the careers of such musicians asSly and the Family Stone .In the early 1990s KDIA was co-owned by then mayor of
Oakland, California ,Elihu Harris with thenCalifornia Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. In 1992, the late Oakland journalistChauncey Bailey returned to the Bay Area to work as public affairs director and newscaster on KDIA. Bailey later became the editor of the "Oakland Post" who was murdered on the streets of downtown Oakland.cite web
url=http://www.oaklandtribune.com
title=Bailey's career in news spanned globe for decades
author=Josh Richman and Douglas Fischer
publisher=Oakland Tribune
date=2007-08-03]KDIA 1640 was put on in the air in 1996 by Baybridge Communications and has been a Christian talk station since 2002. Its tag line is "The Light for San Francisco". It has since gone through two upgrades and now covers San Francisco, Oakland, and the Bay Area, day and night. Its web site is www.kdia.com
References
External links
* [http://www.kdia.com KDIA official website]
* [http://www.bayarearadio.org/pages/stations.shtml#KDIA Bay Area Radio Museum, KDIA archives] – audio archive of KDIA broadcasts.
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