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Kevin McAlea is an Irish keyboard player and songwriter, known for his work with Kate Bush, David Gilmour, and Barclay James Harvest and for writing English lyrics for the song "99 Luftballons", as the international hit "99 Red Balloons". [1] He also plays saxophone, guitar and uilleann pipes.
The station is owned by KQED Inc., alongside fellow PBS station KQED (channel 9) and NPR member KQED-FM (88.5) in San Francisco. The three stations share studios on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District and transmitter facilities atop Sutro Tower; until January 17, 2018, KQEH's transmitter was located atop Monument Peak.
KXSC (104.9 FM) began in 1961 as KHYD, a 3,000–watt station operating from a house on Mowry Avenue in Fremont, California.. The station call letters changed to KFMR in 1964. 18-year-old Bill Stairs was among the alumni of early days of KFMR who went on to a career as a DJ, program director and broadcast consultant in markets from Spokane, Sacramento and San Diego in the west to Boston and ...
"99 Luftballons" (German: Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons"(German: Neunundneunzig Rote Luftballons), with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan.
It paired them with its existing KSJO, a rock music station in San Jose, creating the "92-Rock Network"; [84] the station retained the KZSF-FM call sign until February 1999, when it changed to KXJO (matching KSJO as well as KFJO, the renamed KZWC). [85] Rapid consolidation in the radio industry led to more changes of ownership.
The call letters of KSAN have been used by four unrelated radio stations and one related TV station in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1950s. In the early 1960s, KSAN 1450 AM became KSOL and programmed R&B music, and was also notable for DJ Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart), who went on to fame as a musician, fronting the band Sly and the Family Stone.
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On December 5, 1998, the station's call sign was changed to KJQI, [6] and the station began airing an adult standards format as "the Joy of San Francisco". [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On February 28, 2000, the station's call sign was changed to KMZT, [ 6 ] and the station aired a classical music format as K-Mozart.