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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame
Nomination Criteria (Beta)

The following is a preliminary listing of criteria to be considered for nomination and induction into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.

CATEGORIES:

Nominees shall be considered under the following categories:

• Performers (Announcers, Disk Jockeys, Program Hosts)

• Pioneers (generally pre-1960)

• Engineering

• Management (including ownership and station management)

• Specialty (including programming, production, traffic, weather, columnists, etc.)

• Sportscasting

• Programs

• Legendary Stations

Individuals may be nominated in multiple categories.

NOMINATION CRITERIA:

The criteria for eligibility in the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame includes many intangibles -- there are no statistics or championships by which to judge a nominee. At its very essence, we try to keep in mind one overriding question: can you tell the story of Bay Area radio without including this person in it?

Some basic criteria to keep in mind:

• Nominees must have worked in commercial or non-commercial radio broadcasting as an on-air personality, manager, writer, producer, engineer, developer or in another capacity in which the nominee exhibited exceptional and extraordinary ability and/or attained significant and notable popularity or recognition for their work, and

• A nominee must have been born or raised in one of the nine Bay Area counties* and achieved national or international fame in radio broadcasting in the Bay Area or elsewhere, or

• A nominee must have relocated to the Bay Area and achieved his or her greatest fame or distinction in the Bay Area, and

• A nominee must have made an extraordinary impact on the broadcasting history of the Bay Area for which he or she received widespread recognition, or

• A nominee must have contributed significantly to the growth and development of radio broadcasting as an industry primarily through his or her work in the Bay Area, or

• Nominees may have been part of an ensemble cast (two or more performers) on a regularly-scheduled program for which multiple cast members may receive nomination. (For example, two members of a morning-drive broadcast team may be nominated either separately or jointly; or all regular performers of a serial drama may be nominated as an ensemble under the Program category, or individually as a Performer.) The program must have originated primarily in the Bay Area, and must have aired on a Bay Area radio station.

ELIGIBILITY AGE: A nominee's age shall not impact upon his or her eligibility. A nominee does not have to be currently active in the industry to be eligible for induction.

* — For the purposes of this document, the nine Bay Area counties shall be identified as:

• Alameda County

• Contra Costa County

• Marin County

• Napa County

• San Francisco

• San Mateo County

• Santa Clara County

• Solano County

• Sonoma County

Nomination Process

Nominees must meet the criteria outlined above. In submitting your nominations, please include a brief overview (approximately fifty words) of each nominee's accomplishments, citing all applicable criteria.

Send nominations to:

Hall of Fame Nominations
CHRS Bay Area Radio Museum
PO Box 31659
San Francisco CA 94131-0659

PLEASE NOTE: Limit of one nominee per submission.

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