The Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame (BARHOF) and the California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) are proud to announce today that San Francisco’s KFOG (104.5 FM) will be the recipient of their Legendary Station Award for 2019. The award focuses on KFOG during its era as “The [Read more…]
Following the sad demise of San Jose’s KLIV (1590 AM) back on January 27, the station’s owner for the past five decades, Bob Kieve (BARHOF 2007), sat down to reflect on his long career in business, politics and broadcasting: Further Reading: “San Jose’s KLIV going silent after [Read more…]
The Bay Area Radio Museum has been informed that Alice Potter, the former general manager of Berkeley’s KPAT/KRE and a member of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, recently passed away at the age of 90. Miss Potter came to KPAT late in 1964 as director of [Read more…]
With the news of the death of actor Burt Reynolds this week, we scrambled to find the recording of Burt’s infamous interview with Ronn Owens (BARHOF 2007) on San Francisco’s KGO (810 AM) back in October 1994. Burt was in the midst of a book tour to promote [Read more…]
Johnny Morris, one of the keystone personalities of KSOL and KDIA in the 1960s and 1970s, died over the weekend in Southern California, according to posts on his Facebook page. Originally from Fresno, he attended Edison High School in his hometown and Poly High in San Francisco. He later [Read more…]
“And Now, On 560 KSFO” 560 KSFO Personality Intros Sound Design ’84 January and April 1984 Stay with us on this one – it may take a few minutes, but if you worked at 560 KSFO in early 1984 (and there were a whole bunch of you that [Read more…]
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