KEAR Call Letters
The call letters KEAR were originally assigned to an AM station at 1550 kHz (now KZDG) in 1952. Before that, since 1947, the radio station at this frequency (1550 kHz) had been called KSMO. From 1947 to 1956, KSMO and KEAR had broadcast as San Francisco's only AM classical music station. They billed themselves as the "good music" station. When KEAR stopped broadcasting classical music in 1956, this forced many San Francisco classical music lovers to become early adopters and purchase the then recently introduced FM radios so they could listen to classical music broadcasts on KDFC. In 1956, the KEAR call letters were moved to 97.3 FM. Family Stations Inc. bought the station in 1959, and aired its first Family Radio broadcast on KEAR on February 4 of that year.
In September 1978, Family Stations Inc. sold its station at 97.3 to CBS (who still owns it today as KLLC), and acquired KMPX (106.9 FM) from National Science Network, Inc. At this time, the KEAR call letters and Family Radio programming were transferred to the new frequency, where it broadcast for 27 years.
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