Regional Radio and C.B, ham radio
Nowadays, listening to the radio station is a great way to access information in the absence of a television or newspaper. It can broadcast news and research to a large size of listeners simultaneously. Furthermore, not only is it a great source of information many radio stations provide entertainment as well as access to fun activities. Listeners can choose from a variety of options of music, being able to change the station and onto another in just a few seconds. Nowadays radio station hosts are also able to interact with their audience through social media such as instagram or twitter and the phone where they give listeners the opportunity to win prizes or share life stories. Ultimately listening to the radio is another great way to get in touch with the world as well as to relax and de-stress.
CB Radio
Citizens Band Radio consists of 40 channels for nearby communication. These channels are not exclusive. Anyone with a CB can listen in and interrupt on any of the channels. Although channel 9 is reserved for emergencies, there is no guarantee that anyone is nearby and listening. A CB radio has limited range. There was a rumor that some police cars have a CB radio and listen in on channel 9. This was started by a catalog that sold portable CB radios. Checking with police departments is six counties and the California Highway Patrol confirm that no cars had a CB radio. If a police officer carried a CB walkie-talkie, that was his own..
The CB channels in the Santa Cruz County area are mostly quiet nowadays. Where there was once a dozen clubs and hundreds of people, it is now a passing fad. People prefer to chat on portable phones, the internet, and transceivers with secured channels.
Local AM/FM stations.
There are around 40 close range radio stations available to Santa Cruz residents. Radio signals originates from cities such as San Francisco, San Jose, Salinas, Carmel Valley, Oakland, San Mateo, Gilroy, La Selva Beach, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Santa Clara, and from Santa Cruz itself. Santa Cruz has many stations to choose from. Some include KZSC Santa Cruz, a UCSC campus radio as well as KUSP, a central coast public radio and KSQL, a Santa Cruz regional Mexican station.
These radio stations are important such that they provide local news, discussing relevant topics that are up to date. Many of these stations specialize in their topics and music, ranging from sports to hip hop to Christian contemporary. There are also plenty of Spanish channels to accommodate the large Spanish speaking population present in the Santa Cruz area. Through the radio the news and modern music becomes accessible and free from all over the b
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KZSC Radio
Mission Statement:
"KZSC is a non-commercial, educational public radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the University of California. The station’s responsibilities are to both the license grantor and license holder.
The station’s responsibility to the UC Regents is to serve as a training ground for UC Santa Cruz students wishing to pursue a professional career or a vocational activity in the broadcast industry. The station is also obligated by the FCC to operate as a public service to Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey county audiences, offering programming in “the public interest.”
KZSC is dedicated to airing alternative viewpoints that often differ from the broadcasts found on many commercial stations. Our creative and educational endeavors will be guided by honesty, balance and sensitivity.
KZSC is committed to soliciting and providing access in a non- discriminatory, progressive fashion to those traditionally underrepresented in the media. This includes, but is not limited to, women, cultural, ethnic and racial minorities, people of various sexual orientations, seniors, youth, children and the disabled.
KZSC staff shall at all times strive for completeness in news coverage. The station shall strive conscientiously for unbiased and fair reporting on all events and topics.
With the exception of FCC and University rules, KZSC shall not allow any censorship (“prior restraint”) in program content by any agency outside of the station (refer to FCC policies and the UCSC Rule book.)"
Purpose Statement:
"In 1928, the Federal Radio Commission (the predecessor to the FCC) elaborated a definition of “public interest” in the following terms (cited in part):
Broadcasting stations are licensed to serve the public and not for the purpose of furthering the private or selfish interests of individuals or groups of individuals. The standard of public interest, convenience, or necessity means nothing if it does not mean this…The entire listening public within the service area of a station.., is entitled to service from that station…A broadcasting station may be regarded as a sort of ‘mouthpiece on the air for the community it serves, over which its public events of general interest…may be broadcast. If…the station performs its duty in furnishing a well-rounded program, the rights of the community have been achieved.
KZSC is dedicated to this definition of “public interest.” KZSC is dedicated to producing the best radio our various personnel and facilities will permit, serving the UCSC campus and our larger listening audience with news, public affairs, music, entertainment and spoken word programming as well as broadcasts and information about various UCSC campus events and issues."
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA
(831) 459-4036
KUSP Radio:
Story:
"KUSP is an independent, community-based, non-profit, interactive multimedia voice serving the greater Monterey Bay Area. We inform, engage, and entertain our community by providing a thoughtful mix of news, public affairs, arts, and music programming. ~KUSP Mission Statement
Community participation sets KUSP apart from most public broadcasters. Since our founding in 1972, our doors have been open to creative people of all kinds. Their work combines with the best of public radio’s national programming to create a wide-ranging program line-up that attracts tens of thousands of dedicated listeners every week.
Forty years ago, what we now recognize as public radio was starting up in cities and towns across America. Pioneering non-commercial stations such as KALW and KPFA had been broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1940’s – but people living by Monterey Bay and in the Salinas Valley were only served by mainstream commercial radio stations.
KUSP’s origins spring from the community radio movement instigated by Lorenzo Milam and Jeremy Lansman, among others. Milam and Lansman worked to start stations in communities all over the country during the 1960’s and early 1970’s, a time when FM frequencies were comparatively easy to obtain. Santa Cruz was fertile ground for grassroots radio. With a six hundred dollar budget to get on the air, KUSP was born.
Among the people recruited to the community radio cause in Santa Cruz was Don Mussell. Don became the station’s engineer, responsible for finding, installing, and patching up KUSP’s broadcasting equipment. His on-line personal history of KUSP’s early days is as authoritative as anything likely to ever be published – you’ll find a link to it on the right side of this page.
KUSP’s programming evolved through the years, reflecting changes in the communities we broadcast to, changes in the creative community of programmers who work at the station, and changes in the media landscape of which we are a part. We joined National Public Radio in 1984, the Pacifica Radio Affiliates’ Alliance (home of Democracy Now!) in 2003, and became distribution partners with the BBC and Marketplace in 2008.
KUSP moved on-line in 1995, becoming one of the first public radio stations to offer a live broadcast stream to Internet listeners. Our digital services have expanded steadily in the years since we first ventured onto the World Wide Web. KUSP-produced programs such as GeekSpeak and Ask Dr. Dawn reach global audiences on-line comparable to the amount of listening over the air, and The KUSP Music Show Player was among the first web services in public radio to put music choice into listener’s hands – any program, any time, anywhere.
KUSP has always been an independent, community-run non-profit – unlike most public radio stations, which are controlled by government entities or colleges and universities. Financial support from our contributing listeners, local businesses, and local non-profits represents almost 90% of our budget. The other ten percent comes to KUSP in the form of grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
By visiting kusp.org, you become part of our station community. Check out our programs, add your comments to our stories, and share what you discover here with your friends. Thank you for being part of KUSP!"
- See more at: http://www.kusp.org/story.shtml#sthash.ksAvXyvJ.dpuf
203 8th Ave, Santa Cruz, CA
(831) 476-2800
KSCO Radio:
Background [Wikipedia]:
"KSCO (1080 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format located in Santa Cruz, California. It can be heard over much of Central California during the day. Since 1991, it has been owned by the Zwerling family. Both son Michael and mother Kay Zwerling take an active role in the station with the former regularly hosting the call-in show Saturday Special and the latter writing and voicing politically conservative commentaries on a variety of topics, especially politics and current events."
2300 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz, CA
(831) 475-1080