Kbeach Global Radio, also known as KBeach.org, is a free format, student run internet radio

Internet radio

Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...

 station at California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach is the second largest campus of the California State University system and the third largest university in the state of California by enrollment...

. The radio station is operated during the fall and spring semesters. The station has been around in various forms since the mid-1970s, then known as KSUL (which went defunct after 1981). KBeach is a department of Associated Students, Incorporated at CSULB and is both funded and regulated by them. Although not having a radio transmitter, KBeach has gained attention on campus by hosting and DJing various events and promotions, such as Thursday Night Concerts at the CSULB Nugget Bar & Grill.

Lisa's Honest Show

In Fall 2002, student and comic Lisa Jablonsky hosted a show on Kbeach called Lisa's Honest Show.
Originally, Jablonsky used the show to voice her opinions about college, her ex-boyfriends and to interview her friends on the air. Eventually the show became a two-hour talk show and featured notable comedians, such as Tom Rhodes

Tom Rhodes

Tom Rhodes is an American comedian, actor, and host. He starred in the NBC sitcom Mr. Rhodes and was the host of The Kevin Masters Show starring Tom Rhodes and Yorin Travel on the Dutch television station Yorin.When the Yorin shows came to an end, Rhodes returned to the United States and...

 and Greg Behrendt

Greg Behrendt

Gregory Behrendt is an American stand-up comedian and author. His work as a script consultant to the HBO sitcom Sex and the City, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, paved the way for co-authoring of the New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That into You , later adapted into a film by the same name...

 right before he appeared on Oprah with his book - He's Just Not That Into You

He's Just Not That Into You

He's Just Not That Into You is a self-improvement book written by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo that was published in 2004 and later adapted into a film by the same name...

. Behrendt also gave Jablonsky dating advice on Lisa's Honest Show.

Jablonsky met Tom Rhodes when she was 16 backpacking in San Francisco. She met Behrendt in 2003, backstage at his rock/comedy show Bring the Rock at Largo

Largo

-Music:* Largo, a very slow tempo, or a musical piece or movement in such a tempo* Handel's Largo or "Ombra mai fù", an aria from the opera Serse* Hugo Largo, American band from the 1980s* Strong and stately...

 in Hollywood.
Lisa's Honest Show ran from Fall 2002 to Spring 2004 at Kbeach. It featured indie comics and musicians and continues as a podcast at honestlisa.com. Promos for Kbeach are on honestlisa.com.

Music

The music format of the station varies DJ to DJ. While many shows focus on a single type of music, some shows play a wide variety of music. This can vary from indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

, mainstream rap

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

, classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 and older pop forms such as new wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 and even disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

. Most of the programming is not "mainstream" music, but mostly independent artists. KBeach has labeled itself as being anti-Clear Channel

Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...

because of the amount of control Clear Channel has on the music industry. The programming schedule for the spring 2006 semester was broken up into 2 hours segments.