Malloy changed the call letters to KSOL and strengthened the rhythm and blues/soul music format targeting the African-American community; the station launched the career of popular 1960s and '70s musician Sly Stone, who was one of the station's DJs.
Mark G. Lebwohl, M.D., is an American dermatologist and author and the Sol and Clara Kest Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name.