Dana Jang
Dana Jang, Specialty (BARHOF 2021)
Dana Jang got his start in commercial radio serving as a board operator at KREP 105.3 in Santa Clara and then got his first on-air job with KSJO in San Jose. He was promoted to […]
Month: December 2024
Monte Moore
Monte Moore, Sports (BARHOF 2023)
Oklahoma native Monte Moore became the radio play-by-play announcer for the Kansas City Athletics in 1962. When owner Charles O. Finley moved the A’s to Oakland in 1968, Moore came along and remained the baseball […]
Hall of Fame
Knowles Robertson, Legacy Inductee (BARHOF 2024)
Knowles Robertson’s 35-year Bay Area radio news career included 20 years as News and Public Affairs Director at country music station KNEW and later its sister station KSAN. He was active in the Radio-Television News […]
Bonnie Chastain
Bonnie Chastain, Legacy Inductee (BARHOF 2024)
Bonnie Chastain ended her Bay Area radio career as News Director and morning anchor at KOIT. Prior to that, she worked in the news department at KSFO and at KCBS, which is where she met […]
Sam Skinner
Sam Skinner, Legacy Inductee (BARHOF 2024)
Sportscaster Sam Skinner was heard on KFOG and “Lucky 13” KDIA for many years. He was heard as a color commentator on Oakland Raiders radio broadcasts in the early to mid ‘60s. The affable Skinner […]
Hall of Fame
Dick Leonard, Legacy Inductee (BARHOF 2024)
Dick Leonard’s radio news career began in his native Denver. In 1952, he arrived in San Francisco to take a newscasting job at KNBC (later KNBR). In 1954, he joined the staff at KCBS and […]