 Wow we have here we have We went all the way to the garlic brothers the garlic brothers. Yeah, so it's out Okay, so it's right within the you hit it man. That's just right on the money the contour is perfect The FCC contour, you know, just right there At least the chunk I checked But it's just beautiful driving Town sounds great Christine CD quality Well, it is about to be the stroke of noon on January the 1st 2015 the first official ever broadcast from KWDC 93.5 here on the Delta College campus What a historic moment. I don't know why I'm talking first. We've got people here that have laid the foundation I want to bring dawn over here Because because governor dawn is the man That has led the charge to put this on the air Don how does it feel to be broadcasting right now? Totally stoked So long in the studio doing it the wrong way Now we got to do it the right way. Yeah, is that even plug is that thing plug? All right. Yeah. Yeah, well, I tell you what it's a it's quite a thrill as far as Leaving the charge. I think that goes to our esteemed leader professor William Starrie. Yeah, but he'll never get out of the microphone Behind the law is behind the camera It's that fake voice in the distance I just do the video Yes, it's the voice on the shoulder that tells you the good stuff So all right, so the folks that are listening right now and and there are many now because all of a sudden here We are yes, what is KWDC? Tell me Don. What is KWDC? KWDC is the voice of Stockton Our our goal is to be the community outlet a place where People in our area can turn to for local information things that are relevant to their lives news sports arts entertainment The the voice of Stockton is what we want to be is not just a name we picked But it's something that is very important to us and I think it's very important to our community as well Well, it's a pretty lofty title of the voice of Stockton. There's a lot of choices in Stockton Why would anybody pick us? Well, we were going to go with just the voice, but that was already taken No Well, I could say with some some confidence that there are not very many Voices of Stockton on the Stockton airwaves. You don't we don't have much stocked in broadcasting So why would somebody choose this? Well, we're kind of like, you know, you know one of the few shows in town So, you know, if you're gonna choose somebody you're gonna you might use happen to land on us, but The real reason why people should choose KWDC is because of our intention because of our spirit because of our commitment to our town in our area to our campus here at San Joaquin Delta College to our department radio television department to To the greater community of people in our area the residents the businesses the Organizations people who care about our town from our perspective, you know, we don't want to be the you know Echo machine of bad news. We know that there's more out there to see and to hear about and so that's our mission Woo-hoo Those of you guys expecting to hear bubblegum pop and Recycled garbage that corporate America shove it down your throat. You're at the wrong station. Yeah, that's right You're at the wrong station. Yeah, actually, this is a recorded studio audience. We just press the applause And I'm fine with that. This has been a wonderful adventure I thank everyone everyone that has participated in the process to help us get to the point where we actually have a KWDC LP Stockton This is the voice of Stockton and we will be the voice of Stockton for a long long time to come Thanks to all of these wonderful people. Thank you Holy cow, my name is Gabe Alcantara and I am the voice of Stockton Wooo Thank you everyone and so we're gonna Go ahead and play a little music actually Don want you to tell a little bit about the history of Today why today was so special for broadcasting? Yeah, because you know the whole time we were feverishly Working for this day. I kept thinking. Oh, man, maybe we should do it like in April So so today is it's the first of the year and What happened on the first of the year? Well, you know all of us woke up this morning We decided to come here. We were crazy for But a hundred and six years ago something very significant happened on January 1st in 1909 so there there was a back then they they didn't call radio radio. They called it wireless and so what it was is people would Send messages from one point to another and so there was a Brilliant brilliant professor by the name of Charles David Harold who was a And an electrical engineer and he had the notion of sending a signal not just to one point But to all surrounding areas so he he along with his loyal band of insane students Decided to build an enormous tower that has 11,500 feet of wire several miles of wire and they were a Broadcast station in the very real sense in the first sense and how he Explained how he knew that he was a broadcaster is that he said well, I had to build the receivers For everyone to listen so he was he was going all around the valley in the in San Jose Building what they called a crystal set receivers and that's how they listen to radio signals back then so so he starts up the school and He brings on board one of the one of the immediate An attachment to him became a very close associate was a student by the name of Ray newbie He was from Stockton, California, and he was only 16 at the time It's quite interesting. He was also the what they called wireless code instructor, which was the Morse code instructor so some 16-year-old is teaching people how to do Morse code and he's teaching people with college students and on that first day they had the brilliant notion of Broadcasting music which some which no one had done before so on January 1st in 1909 They it was actually at 9 p.m. Which you will be able to hear so hopefully at that time as well Hopefully we're still on it But anyhow, they began to broadcast music on the airwaves to to multiple locations, and it was the first ever Musical broadcast, so that's a little bit of Stockton history. Like I said, he was from Stockton, California I believe he lived down there in South Stockton on Can't remember the name of Street now, but I've been listening to interviews old-timey stuff real cool stuff and Yeah, so we we have a Charles Harold to thank for a broadcast he they call the father of broadcasting and And young rain Ubi who had the the gumption to play music on the radio He he loved to play they like to play Victor Red Seal 78s because they were quality records but they they usually played Enrico Caruso and If you know about him, I know the older the mature people here know Yes, the trusted wise people here who know who know what good music is Know about Enrico Caruso and if you've watched any of those black and white or old mobster movies You know, of course He's like a staple in that because he said he's like was the most famous singer at the time And still even history's one of the greatest tenors So it played his records because man they could carry that sound a long way man that voice really traveled through the airways So and we have some of that too. We have some Enrico Caruso we're gonna play today at three o'clock and And you'll be able to check it out and we'll talk a little bit more about that But yeah, that's that's that's why we wanted to do this commemorative broadcast today because we wanted to You know to to to be become part of this history and this long legacy of radio You know the here we are now again Trying to be the first you know to to think of this this radio idea back how it used to you know when when I was coming up I think that we really thought radio belonged to the people and Somewhere along the line we kind of lost that But radio is no less powerful or medium if you want to think about how does a person become a hit recording artist? They get they know they're a hit when they're on the radio So radio is still very powerful and radio is advancing because it's converging with the modern technology of the internet and video So, you know modern radio station is somewhat of a TV station or somewhat of a video station. It's all these things rolled together. So You know, that's that's us Putting our two cents in and attaching ourselves to the history and we want it We would like to one day say that we've been you know on there all these many years and you know We'd love to have a good positive influence in our community as well. So that's what today's broadcast is about That's why we asked everyone to come out That's why we're working so feverishly to get it on by the first of the year. And so here's our hundred and six year Celebrating Stockton radio. And so thank you everybody and thank you for showing up and celebrating Congratulations to us all LPS stock the 93.5 FM KWDC radio