{"id":270751,"date":"2026-04-16T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270751\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:26:09","slug":"seaworld-fireworks-show-replaced-with-drones-newsradio-600-kogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270751\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaworld Fireworks Show Replaced With Drones | Newsradio 600 KOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fireworks are out and drones are in for SeaWorld San Diego.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The California Coastal Commission approved a coastal development permit for a one-year pilot program for the theme park to replace its iconic fireworks shows with a drone show.\u00a0The approval allows the theme park to conduct up to 110, 15-minute drone shows in the next 12 months. <\/p>\n<p>The permit is the first of its kind approved by the state agency, which has not previously considered the use of drones at this scale over sensitive coastal habitat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to National Geographic, drone shows do not produce air or water pollution, are safer in drought prone areas, and have minimal noise making them more neighborhood friendly for pets, wildlife, infants, and veterans with PTSD.\u00a0The shows will begin in mid-May. with a full launch in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: ABC 10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fireworks are out and drones are in for SeaWorld San Diego.\u00a0 The California Coastal Commission approved a coastal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9551,4035,66938,23,100,74,76,75,29373],"class_list":{"0":"post-270751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-drones","9":"tag-fireworks","10":"tag-kogo-news","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-headlines","15":"tag-san-diego-news","16":"tag-seaworld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}