CLASSIC JAZZ · BLUES · SAN DIEGO · CALIFORNIA · UNITED STATES
Jazz 88.3 FM is the full-time jazz station of San Diego City College, broadcasting 24 hours a day from San Diego and streaming to listeners around the world.
📻 History: KSDS 88.3 FM, branded Jazz 88.3, first went on the air in 1951 and is licensed to the San Diego Community College District. It is operated as a broadcast service of San Diego City College, with its studios on the campus at 1313 Park Boulevard.
The station began programming jazz in 1973, and in 1985 it became San Diego's only full-time jazz and blues station. For many years it broadcast with 3,000 watts. In 2007 the FCC granted a construction permit to raise its power to 22,000 watts, which greatly expanded its coverage area. Today the transmitter sits on the campus of San Diego Mesa College in Kearny Mesa.
KSDS broadcasts in HD Radio: HD1 simulcasts the main signal, while HD2 carries "Student Designed Sound," with music and spoken-word programs produced by students in City College's broadcasting program. The schedule mixes mainstream and traditional jazz with specialty programs on Dixieland, Latin jazz, swing, big band, free jazz, vocalists and guitar, plus blues programs such as The Saturday Night Blues Ball. Its hosts include jazz musicians, critics and historians, and the station offers apps for iOS and Android.
📞 (619) 388-8830 · ✉️ [email protected] · 📍 1313 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101, United States
