Seconds before noon Tuesday, Larry Murry smiled and intoned into a microphone: “Broadcasting from the campus of City College, this is member-supported KSDS San Diego.”

Larry Murry with you. It is Midday Jazz in the afternoon. San Diego’s Jazz FM 88.3.”

The smile was still there as the 40-year radio veteran pulled off his AKG headphones. Murray’s is one of several voices that grace the airwaves at KSDS.

The station is tucked into the “L” building adjacent to Curran Plaza on the campus of . It’s been around since 1951. Back then, it was a student radio station. It morphed into a public radio station in 1973, and in 1985 became San Diego’s only jazz and blues station.

“We’ve been successful in keeping that for over 50 years, which is really pretty remarkable,” said KSDS general manager .

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