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22-644: KQED-FM is grandfathered at an unusually high effective radiated power (ERP) of 110,000 watts . The transmitter is along Radio Road, atop San Bruno Mountain , in Brisbane . KQEI-FM has an ERP of 3,300 watts, with its tower on Sorento Road in Elverta . KQED-FM is one of the most-listened-to public radio stations in the United States. It often ranks first in the San Francisco radio market in

44-620: A coalition of Populists and Republicans in fusion tickets in the 1880s and 1890s gained some seats and won some governor positions. To prevent such coalitions in the future, the Democrats wanted to exclude freedmen and other black people from voting; in some states they also restricted poor whites to avoid biracial coalitions. White Democrats developed statutes and passed new constitutions creating restrictive voter registration rules. Examples included imposition of poll taxes and residency and literacy tests . An exemption to such requirements

66-581: A provision is used as a compromise or out of practicality, to allow new rules to be enacted without upsetting a well-established logistical or political situation. This extends the idea of a rule not being retroactively applied . The term originated in late 19th-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of Southern U.S. states, which created new requirements for literacy tests , payment of poll taxes and residency and property restrictions to register to vote. States in some cases exempted those whose ancestors (e.g., grandfathers ) had

88-597: Is a north–south city street in San Francisco, California . Beginning at the city's northern waterfront, it runs south, passing through the Marina District , Cow Hollow , Pacific Heights , and further provides the traditional boundary between several neighborhoods before terminating at 14th Street, near Buena Vista Park and Corona Heights Park . The road was laid out when the Western Addition

110-423: Is relayed by these stations and translators to widen its broadcast area. KQED and KQEI also broadcast using HD Radio technology. Grandfather clause A grandfather clause , also known as grandfather policy , grandfathering , or being grandfathered in , is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases. Those exempt from

132-696: The Fifteenth Amendment . After Democrats took control of state legislatures again, especially after the Compromise of 1877 , they began to work to restrict the ability of black people to vote. Paramilitary groups such as the White League , Red Shirts , and rifle clubs had intimidated black people or barred them from the polls in numerous elections before what they called the Redemption (restoration of white supremacy ). Nonetheless,

154-858: The Nielsen ratings . In addition to local programming, KQED-FM carries content from major public radio distributors such as National Public Radio , the Public Radio Exchange and American Public Media , with the BBC World Service heard late nights. Popular NPR shows carried by KQED-FM and KQEI-FM include Morning Edition , All Things Considered , Fresh Air , Here and Now and Marketplace . Weekend shows include Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me , Radiolab , On The Media , Code Switch , Latino USA , Hidden Brain , Freakonomics Radio , This American Life , The Moth Radio Hour , The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Splendid Table . Among

176-703: The Presbyterian Church (USA) could no longer support the station, KXKX signed off at midnight on the evening of June 29, 1967. In July 1968, the San Francisco Theological Seminary filed to sell KXKX to the Bay Area Educational Television Association, owner of public television station KQED (channel 9). The station returned to the air as KQED-FM in mid-1969, originally using the studios at 286 Divisadero Street inherited from

198-559: The iHeartRadio platform. Forum is carried live, nationwide, on Sirius Satellite Radio . KQED also offers an extensive audio archive and podcasts of previous shows for download. One of the most famous programs to have been broadcast on KQED was An Hour with Pink Floyd , a 60-minute performance by Pink Floyd recorded in 1970 without an audience at the station's studio. The program was broadcast only twice—once in 1970, and once again in 1981. The setlist included " Atom Heart Mother ", " Cymbaline ", " Grantchester Meadows ", " Green Is

220-867: The Colour ", " Careful with That Axe, Eugene ", and " Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun ". The San Francisco Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian group, began broadcasting with station KXKX in April 1963. The new 110,000-watt station signed on two years after the seminary received a construction permit from the FCC in August 1961. In addition to Christian radio programming, the station's subcarrier broadcast theology courses to receivers at 44 Bay Area churches. When agencies of

242-580: The Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that poll taxes could not be used in any elections. This secured the franchise for most citizens, and voter registration and turnout climbed dramatically in Southern states. There is also a rather different, older type of grandfather clause , perhaps more properly a grandfather principle in which a government blots out transactions of

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264-591: The army or navy of the United States or of the Confederate States during a time of war. After the U.S. Supreme Court found such provisions unconstitutional in Guinn v. United States (1915), states were forced to stop using the grandfather clauses to provide exemption to literacy tests. Without the grandfather clauses, tens of thousands of poor Southern whites were disenfranchised in the early 20th century. As decades passed, Southern states tended to expand

286-535: The first edition of All Things Considered . Later, due to reduced funding, Mayes opened the air to 'Tribal Radio' - productions by local non-profit groups, some in their own languages. In 2003, KQED Radio expanded to the Sacramento metropolitan area by purchasing KEBR-FM at 89.3 MHz. The station is licensed to the suburban community of North Highlands . It signed on the air on February 21, 1992 ; 32 years ago  ( 1992-02-21 ) . KEBR-FM 89.3

308-645: The franchise for poor whites, but most black people could not vote until after passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act . Ratification in 1964 of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections, but some states continued to use them in state elections. The 1965 Voting Rights Act had provisions to protect voter registration and access to elections, with federal enforcement and supervision where necessary. In 1966,

330-426: The locally produced shows are Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal , The California Report and Tech Nation . The KQED-FM newsroom prepares frequent local and California news updates which air between programs, in addition to hourly newscasts from NPR. In addition to over-the-air broadcasts, KQED-FM audio is carried on Comcast digital cable channel 960 with live streaming audio from its website and from

352-425: The new rule are said to have grandfather rights or acquired rights, or to have been grandfathered in. Frequently, the exemption is limited, as it may extend for a set time, or it may be lost under certain circumstances; for example, a grandfathered power plant might be exempt from new, more restrictive pollution laws, but the exception may be revoked and the new rules would apply if the plant were expanded. Often, such

374-428: The recent past, usually those of a predecessor government. The modern analogue may be repudiating public debt, but the original was Henry II 's principle, preserved in many of his judgments, "Let it be as it was on the day of my grandfather 's death", a principle by which he repudiated all the royal grants that had been made in the previous 19 years under King Stephen . Divisadero Street Divisadero Street

396-945: The right to vote before the American Civil War or as of a particular date from such requirements. The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent former African-American slaves and their descendants from voting but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote. Although these original grandfather clauses were eventually ruled unconstitutional, the terms grandfather clause and grandfather have been adapted to other uses. The original grandfather clauses were contained in new state constitutions and Jim Crow laws passed between 1890 and 1908 by white-dominated state legislatures including Alabama , Georgia , Louisiana , North Carolina , Oklahoma , and Virginia . They restricted voter registration , effectively preventing African Americans from voting. Racial restrictions on voting in place before 1870 were invalidated by

418-498: The seminary. The founding manager was Bernard Mayes , who later went on to be executive vice president of KQED television and also co-founder and chairman of NPR. The first programming of KQED-FM included news, 'street radio' broadcast live from local street corners, drama and music. In its third year on the air, KQED-FM became one of the first 80 network affiliates of National Public Radio, one of five in California. It aired

440-418: Was made for all persons allowed to vote before the American Civil War , and any of their descendants. The term grandfather clause arose from the fact that the laws tied the then-current generation's voting rights to those of their grandfathers. According to Black's Law Dictionary , some Southern states adopted constitutional provisions exempting from the literacy requirements descendants of those who fought in

462-535: Was originally owned by Family Radio , a Christian broadcaster based in Oakland at the time. The KEBR-FM call letters and format moved to a more powerful FM station at 88.1 MHz in Sacramento. KQED Radio changed the call sign on 89.3 FM to KQEI-FM. It became a full-time simulcast of KQED-FM in San Francisco. In 2023, KQED acquired Snap Judgment and Spooked podcasts. In addition to the main station, KQED-FM

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484-413: Was planned in the 1850s. It was initially the western city boundary. Cable cars along the street provided traffic which supported a vibrant commercial corridor in the streetcar suburb starting in the 1870s. Prior to 1909, the road was spelled as D e visadero Street. The neighborhood would evolve into a predominantly African American population, which was largely displaced by urban renewal projects in

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