KWOD

Sacramento, California's 106.5 KWOD began in 1977 with a hybrid Jazz/Adult Contemporary music mix. The call letters were chosen to represent quadraphonic sound, the four-speaker audio technology that never caught on but which KWOD was one of the first to experiment with.  Soon after, the station became a Top-40 outlet which lasted until 1991.

KWOD's Alternative Rock era endured from April, 1991 until May, 2009.