Tommy Tong and his wife, May Chin Tong, were pioneering Chinese-American broadcasters whose legacy has been all but forgotten. They created the first Chinese-language radio program in North America in 1939 and continued these broadcasts […]
South Bay native Lissa Kreisler started her career at KLOK-AM in the news department after graduating from San Jose State University with a BA in Journalism. After a ten-year stay doing mornings, covering news and […]
Wilda Wilson Church was a pioneer radio drama producer and director. Born in Ohio, she was an English teacher and dramatic instructor at the Cora L. Williams Institute, a private high school for girls in […]
America knows John Madden as a Super Bowl-winning football coach, an advertising pitchman extraordinaire, the voice and face of the NFL for many years, and the guy whose name is on the cover of the […]
Dean came to the Bay Area in 1933 to work at KYA after working in vaudeville and on Broadway in New York City. In 1935, KYA owner William Randolph Hearst asked Maddox to develop an […]
Richard “Dick” Block’s long career in broadcasting left a major imprint on the Bay Area’s airwaves. Block passed away on September 30, 2024 at the age of 97 of cardiac issues related to amyloidosis. Born […]
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