KIOZ

KIOZ

City of license	San Diego, California
Broadcast area	San Diego, California
Branding	Rock 105.3
Slogan	San Diego's Rock Station
Frequency	105.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) 105.3-2 KIOZ HD2, Hard Rock
Format	Active Rock
ERP	26,000 watts
HAAT	210 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	13504
Transmitter coordinates	32°50′20″N 117°14′56″W
Callsign meaning	IOZ looks like the number 102 (original dial position was 102.1, now KPRI)
Former callsigns	KITT (?-1981) KCBQ-FM (1981-1996)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	KGB, KHTS, KLSD, KMYI, KOGO, KOGO-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	rock1053.com

KIOZ, also known as Rock 105.3, is a Rock station in San Diego, California. It is licensed in San Diego, California, and is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

History

In the 1980s, this was "KCBQ Country" and simulcast AM1170 for some years. In the early 1990s, the station switched to adult album alternative. Meanwhile, KIOZ began at 102.1, licensed to Encinitas, California, as a harder-edge rock station. That station had itself obtained the call letters when they were released by an FM station at 102.9 (now KARS) in Laramie, Wyoming that had held them since the 1970s.

In 1996, KIOZ and KCBQ swapped frequencies; the latter is now known as KPRI.

Billboard Controversy

The head up your ass billboard caused quite a stir in San Diego in the late 1990s.

Programming

KIOZ or Rock 105.3 is the only hard rock station in San Diego, California, USA. The morning show was The Mikey Show, but after host Mikey Esparza did not resign and moved to KBZT, it was replaced with The Show, which began airing on January 4, 2010. Ashlee follows with, Missi doing afternoons. KIOZ will occasionally mix in classic rock, however, this is generally limited to tracks from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath.

The Mikey Show replaced Howard Stern on the KIOZ lineup in 2004 after Clear Channel Communications, KIOZ's current parent company forced the cancellation of Stern's morning show from the six Clear Channel-owned stations that carried it, owing to the "Nipplegate" incident at Super Bowl XXXVIII. (Stern would move to KPLN that summer, then ultimately out of all Federal Communications Commission (FCC) jurisdiction when he moved to Sirius Satellite Radio in January 2006.)

Current operations

In 2005, KIOZ became the flagship station carrying San Diego Chargers football events during the regular season. Staffing the microphones for the pre-game shows are Eddie "The Oracle" Pappani (from the KIOZ morning drive The Show) and former NFL players Lew Bush and Jim Laslavic, of San Diego's KNSD.

External links

• Rock 105.3 on Facebook
• Rock 105.3 on Twitter
• The Show
• Chargers Radio Network photos
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KIOZ
• Radio-Locator information on KIOZ
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KIOZ