Our Fall 2025 Membership Drive begins this Friday, Sept. 26. Our theme is Jazz & Baseball. Twin pillars of classic American culture, both quintessential representations of democracy in action and the twin engines of individual creative expression and teamwork.
For KSDS, San Diego’s Jazz 88.3 — but also for our culture, more broadly — now’s the time for teamwork. With so much talk lately about “what we want our country to be,” we think jazz and baseball embody the manifestation of some of our most virtuous impulses, traditions, and innovations. We’ll have more on the historic relationship between jazz and baseball in the coming days and all throughout this fall campaign, which promises to be a LOOOONG Drive (like the thousands memorably called by golden voices like Jerry Coleman an Vin Scully and Mel Allen and Harry Kalas and Harry Carey and Ernie Harwell, and so many more).
Like baseball, we believe so strongly and so passionately that jazz and blues are woven deep into the fabric of who we are. The values championed by this music make this unprecedented multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-lingual experiment called the USA so much more likely to succeed. To borrow a sentiment from Benjamin Franklin: We've got a republic (and one of the great jazz and blues radio stations in the world). But only if we can keep it.
So, let's hit this Fall Membership Drive wayyy outta the ballpark — to ensure THERE WILL BE TOMORROW.
