PRESS RELEASE: COMMUNITY RADIO KNSJ 89.1 FM SUFFERED CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE WHEN A WINTER STORM TOPPLED ITS RENTED TOWER

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February 27, 2026

Our volunteers have confirmed that the American Tower Company’s tower on Monument Peak at 6,200 ft. elevation collapsed in the February winter storm due to severe ice accumulation and wind. The tower where KNSJ rented space since beginning broadcasting on July 4th, 2013, is now a crumpled pile of steel and cabling. The tower also hosted two cell phone transfer stations, for AT&T and T-Mobile, as well as several other smaller clients. KNSJ was the only broadcast station on the tower. KNSJ is still streaming online, but restoring our broadcast signal will require urgent funding for engineering, equipment, and a possible new site.

Hosted by Don Kimball, Sat 2pm

PTSD and TBIs with Guest DR. DAVID KIREAN

Today Don is in conversation with Dr. David Kirean speaking about some of the unseen wounds of military service. PTSD and TBIs can have devastating effects on individuals, are often misunderstood or misdiagnosed. Hear the author talk about how he researched the book that has already help so many understand the terrible costs of these two conditions affecting our troops.

With Mike and Arthur Aguirre LIVE Sat 11am-Noon

TODAY WE’RE TALKING COFFEE with JOHN RIPPO

Call in with your questions and comments: 619-790-KNSJ (5675)

Climate crisis, economics, roasting coffee, local roasters and coffee in San Diego and always much more.

John Rippo publishes www.theespresso.com, a site that engages San Diego’s coffee trades and provides daily information to consumers about local coffee roasters.
 

DEMOCRACY NOW! with Amy Goodman M-F 7-8am, 6-7pm

● A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire

● “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

● Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?

● Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t

WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR with Angela de Joseph Thurs 5pm, Sat 10am

Women of Color Roar is hosted by journalist and activist Angela de Joseph. A life-long journalist, Angela is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who began her career as an editor at Essence Magazine in New York. She hosts a weekly political talk radio show on KNSJ FM in San Diego. She is the chair of Indivisible Watu, a grass-roots community activist organization dedicated to voter education and engagement. Angela is also a Program Manager for GRID Alternatives the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer and training program.

WOC Roar is a communications platform to give voice to Women of Color.

Thurs 3:30 pm

The Shortwave Report Is a 30 minute review of news stories recorded from a shortwave radio. Times and frequencies for English-language programs are included to encourage you to listen on your own.

Thurs 3pm

Today Professor Wolff delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms being sold to their workers, McDonald’s disaster with an AI experiment, and how Canada’s leader Carney is also a major campaigner for capital and against labor inside Canada. The second part of today’s show features an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on the psychological crisis faced by men in US capitalism today.

Economic Update is a weekly nationally syndicated radio program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life – wages, jobs, taxes, debts, and profits – the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies.

About Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City.

Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Wolff was also regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City.

Professor Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.

Thursday 1pm

What Happens “When the World Sleeps“

Guest Francesca Albanese

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine.

CHRIS HEDGES, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, spent nearly 20 years as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was part of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He writes a weekly original column for Truthdig, and has written for Harper’s, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs and other publications. He is the author of the bestsellers Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (with cartoonist Joe Sacco); Death of the Liberal Class; Empire of Illusion; and War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, among others.

ON THIS FOURTH OF JULY

PARTY WITH US UNTIL 3PM OR LONGER

JOIN US for an alternative Fourth of July get together in Chicano Park under the Coronado bridge.

We will be there hanging out with others from noon to three … and others are going to stay even longer till 10 PM.

KNSJ DJs will be spinning. Come to enjoy or just to hang out at an alternative Fourth of July and tell us your thoughts of what these 250 years needs to mean to make us be everything that was promised in the Declaration of Independence!

With Don Kimball Sat pm

THE CURRENT WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

Another Special Conversation with Matthew Hoh, USMC Captain and State Department Officer, Iraq War combat veteran and Afghanistan War State Department officer.

Tune into Friendly Fire a Voice for Veterans today to hear former US Marine and State Department official Matt Hoh discuss the current war between Russia and Ukraine. A member of Veterans For Peace, in 2024 Matt spoke before the UN Security Council about the continuing “escalation ladder” between the two opposing nations, each launching massive drone and missile attacks on each other almost weekly now. The death and destruction are truly appalling, as are the environmental consequences of this continuing conflict. A senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network, Matt’s analysis of the war that has lasted longer for Russia than WWII is invaluable in helping to understand how we got to this stage of a war without an end in sight.

Matthew Hoh had nearly twelve years experience with the US military and the wars overseas with the United States Marine Corps, Department of Defense and State Department.

In 2009, Matthew Hoh resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matt took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-2005 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-2007 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matt worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-2008.

From 2010-2024, Matt was affiliated with the Center for International Policy, first as a senior fellow and later as a senior fellow emeritus. He is a disabled veteran.

TALK OF THE TOWN with Mike Aguirre Sat 11am

AN ENCORE PRESENTATION

CHUCK COLLINS

U.S. INEQUALITY AND THE RACIAL WEALTH DIVIDE

Chuck Collins is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide and author of over ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the racial wealth divide, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties. His forthcoming book is Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power is Ruining Our Lives and Planet (The New Press, Fall 2025). His 2023 book is a novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun (Green Writers Press), a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ahead. See more at www.chuckcollinswrites.com. His 2021 book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books), unmasks the industry of professional enablers that assist the ultra-wealthy to hide wealth and dodge taxes. He is author of the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green); He is co-author, with the late Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth, (Beacon Press, 2003), a case for taxing inherited fortunes. He is co-author with Mary Wright of The Moral Measure of the Economy, a book about Christian ethics and economic life. He was featured in this interview in Sun Magazine and with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. He is a founding member of the Patriotic Millionaires. In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005. See an archive of Chuck’s writing, videos and commentaries. For media inquiries, contact Olivia Alperstein. For public speaking inquiries, contact Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau.

Institute for Policy Studies