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.

THE WOMENS HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm

INTERSECTIONALITY OF FAITH AND SEXUALITY

Guest Carol Olewine (she/her) with the Santee United Methodist Church

Carol Olewine (she/her) is a member of Santee United Methodist Church, and a queer person of faith. Santee United Methodist Church is the only LGBTQ+ affirming church in Santee, and is the host of the annual Santee Pride Festival and Pride Walk. Where churches and Christians in this country have far too often become more insular and less accepting in recent decades, we talk about the ways faith and sexuality intersect, and how faith communities can rise to become sanctuaries for the LGBTQ+ community as well as other marginalized groups.

Santee United Methodist Church online at santeeumc.org and on Instagram/Facebook: @santeeumc

THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with Susan Taylor Wed 3pm, Sat 7pm, Mon 8am

Poet JOSEPH RUBANO

Joseph Rubano is a Biographical Counselor, poet and long time student of Anthroposophy (the teachings of Rudolf Steiner). His 50 plus years of meditation and inner work has included Native American Ceremony, and many forms of practice, Eastern and Western. In addition to counseling individuals and couples, he is on the faculty of the Biography and Social Art program (through the Center for Biography and Social Art) and has been offering the True Heart True Mind Enlightenment Intensive and the Desert Solo (Vision Quest) Experience in San Diego since 2009. He has a counseling practice in Oceanside, CA., and has two books of poetry, self-published, available on Amazon. (Go To The Edges and This Crazy Love Life

Josephrubano.com

About The Electric Picnic

The Electric Picnic, a show about Poetry, Prose, and Spoken Word presents verse and storytelling every week on KNSJ 89.1 FM.  Your host is poet and educator, Susan Taylor who interviews poets, novelists, songwriters, journalists, all philosophers in their genre.  Hear calls to social justice and well-crafted words from local and international poets.

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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!