Pride Perspectives features discussions of various aspects of the rich and vibrant Santa Cruz LGBTQ+ history. Created in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride in 2025, we include conversations with guests about their experiences in being part of this history through stories of local people and events.
To avoid KUSP’s pitfalls, a new station in Santa Cruz looks to local hosts
Karissa Waddick Current Founders of a new radio station in Santa Cruz, Calif., hope to avoid the challenges that drove another local noncommercial station into bankruptcy by looking to volunteer hosts for a distinctly community-based sound. The founders of KSQD are...
Community Radio: The Air of Democracy
We all take it for granted that we need air to breathe and if the air were suddenly sucked out of the room, it would get our immediate attention. Since the 1980s, democracy has been slowly sucked out of America and not drawing our immediate attention. Back then, there...
Understanding Adult ADHD
Episode 1: One woman’s story of her struggles leading up to and then being diagnosed as an adult with ADHD. Follow her journey in learning to accept and understand herself, how she sought support and ultimately found strategies and skills so that she could accomplish her dreams. Learn more about the kinds of challenges having ADHD presents, how it differs in adults and children, what to know about getting properly diagnosed and where to support.
Introducing “Be Bold America!”
“Be Bold America!” is a bi-weekly, hour-long radio program for those who are motivated to step-out with boldspirited actions necessary to reunite this country and save our democracy.
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KSQD Launching Soon, But Will Miss Sept. 1 Target
BY STEVE PALOPOLI The Good Times When the group behind the planned Santa Cruz community radio station KSQD announced in March that it planned to start broadcasting by mid-June—meaning the all-volunteer, 100-percent grassroots, extremely DIY nonprofit Natural Bridges...
Talk of the Bay
Talk of the Bay returns to the airwaves and web this fall with a new lineup of hosts, a new music theme, and a renewed commitment to cover local issues around the Monterey Bay. We will focus on newsmakers and local current events, which means everything from...
Introducing The Brooklynbilly Music Mashup Show
Hi Folks, I'm Andy Fuhrman and pretty excited to be hosting my Brooklynbilly Music Mashup show here on Santa Cruz's new community supported radio station KSQD broadcast locally at 90.7 on your FM dial and globally over the web at www.ksqd.org As the show name...
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