Instead, Metromedia decided to switch the format of their local FM station, KSAN (94.9 MHz), from classical music to freeform rock, and hired Donahue and most of the displaced KMPX staffers, who started at the station on May 21.
Instead, Metromedia decided to switch the format of their local also-ran classical music FM station, KSFR (94.9 MHz), to freeform rock and adopt call letters KSAN, formerly used by an early San Francisco R&B station. Metromedia hired Donahue and most of the displaced KMPX staffers, who started at the station on May 21.