KSDT Triton Radio

KSDT Triton Radio streams live from San Diego CA, United States, on Tuninga Radio.

This radio station specializes in Punk, Rock, Jazz, Community music.

Alongside the Che Cafe, KSDT was a large part of the the area Punk and Hardcore Scene during the 1970s and 1980s. KSDT does feature an open-door policy for accepting volunteer student DJs. These broadcasts are presented under the branding of KSDT Sports. == History == Founded in 1967, KSDT originally was a carrier current and FM cable The station station broadcasting on campus and to local cable TV subscribers. It continued to pursue this goal in the 1990s and early 2000s, although has recently preferred being an online station. As a public service college The station station, the format was largely musical, with some community access programming. Commercial-free, it received funding from the university. In 1999 it moved to become an internet The station station. In 2000 and 2001, it split with its "sister station" SRTV (student-run television). Its current mission statement in part "strives to promote independent music not available from other sources and works to help the the area Community as well." The recording studio on its premises was used to record and broadcast live many independent bands such as aMiniature, Rookie Card, Skeletor, The Locust, Estradasphere, Dressy Bessy, The Robot Ate Me, Creedle, Sub Society, Milestone, etc. Artists such as Lemmy from Motörhead, Björk, The Flaming Lips, The Meat Puppets, Screaming Trees, Mogwai, Fugazi, Madness and others have recorded station identifications for KSDT in the past. When UC the area began its transition to the Division I level of NCAA competition in 2020, KSDT began occasionally broadcasting live sporting events for UC the area athletics. It publishes a quarterly zine featuring pictures from recent events, music opinion pieces, and album reviews, as well as community art and poetry. Its staff, consisting of a general manager, promotions director, two audio engineers, programming director, marketing director, music director, webmaster, secretary, media director, sports broadcasting director and design director, are all required by KSDT's charter to be students at UCSD. Oversight is provided by the Associated Students (AS) and UCSD administration. The majority of the organization's staff and budget is devoted to providing a public service to the surrounding communities by playing music and hosting programming not normally heard elsewhere; usually taking the form of music shows featuring independent and underground music from a variety of genres. While indie rock music and its many subgenres are consistently found being broadcast from KSDT, other genres such as jazz, blues, electronic music, ambient music, experimental, hip hop, world, and others can also be heard on-air. It also is the flagship The station carrier of the UC the area Tritons athletic programs. == Organization == KSDT is a student-run The station station. Each staff member is required to maintain an internship program, the largest of which being those for audio engineering and graphic design. If training is completed, shows are then created in the next quarter for an hour-long time slot during the week. KSDT also has a recording studio, which runs under the responsibility of the audio engineers.