Broad community protests and a supervisor resolution follow USF’s sudden sale of KUSF 90.3

Dozens of volunteers, musicians and listeners addressed the Board of Supervisors Tuesday to protest the University of San Francisco’s abrupt sale of KUSF’s 90.3 FM frequency to an out‑of‑region broadcaster and to ask the board to back a resolution urging the university and federal regulators to rescind the deal or give the local community a chance to purchase the license.

A supervisor said he was submitting a resolution, cosponsored by Supervisors John Avalos and Eric Marr, that calls attention to the sale and asks the university and the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider and to provide community groups an opportunity to acquire the frequency. The sponsor described KUSF as a long‑running noncommercial resource that airs multilingual and culturally diverse programming and said the sale to a Los Angeles‑area broadcaster was a “travesty” that disenfranchised a decades‑old community…