KALX day/time
Tue. 11:09 PM PST

KALX Statistics

to think, you thought that class was behind you

• Frequency - 90.7 MHz (that's Mega-Hertz, dood)

• Watts - 500 Watts of Power (Five incandescent lightbulbs!)

• Range - The KALX signal reaches into 7 San Francisco Bay Area counties: Alameda, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara. That lets folks tune in the Mighty 90.7 from Berkeley to Fremont, from Redwood City to Petaluma, and from East Oakland to West Oakland.

• Tower - Our tower of power is located near the Lawrence Hall of Science, way up in the Berkeley Hills.

• Hours - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

• Years - 44+ years of being the radio voice for the University of California at Berkeley and its surrounding community.

• Staff - over 200 volunteers (gosh).

• Listeners - yes, we have a few. we think.

• Records - 39,000 (wow!)

• Compact Discs - 28,000 (where do you put them all?)

• 7" Singles - 6,000 (did they really make that many?)

• First Transmitter - Built into a cigar box (really).

• Average DJ Attention Span - Huh? Hold on I gotta make this segue.

• Number of Turntables with a Large Nail for a Counterweight - One.