It’s a little after 9 and morning drive time is easing on San
Diego freeways. Disc Jockey Gary Beck is in the broadcast booth
at jazz station KSDS, doing what he has loved since the 1960s:
spinning records.
Beck and afternoon DJ Ron Dhanifu have more than 80 years on-air
between them. When KSDS — a nonprofit FM station based at San
Diego City College — holds its twice-yearly pledge drives, the
two DJs bring in the majority of donations.