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BARHOF Class of 2026 Induction Event
A crowd of more than 200 filled the ballroom at the Alameda Elks Lodge on October 10 to help celebrate the induction of 19 new members of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame (BARHOF). […]
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Our New DIVA Partnership
The Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame has launched a new way to experience the sounds of Bay Area radio history. Working with San Francisco State University’s Academic Technology office, we are now […]
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KDFM Walnut Creek: A 1969 Photo Gallery
In the words of Pleasant Hill High School graduate Marc Curtis, “As a teenager, I had a transistor radio glued to my ear. I passionately wanted to be an announcer on a radio station. It […]
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Radio’s Honolulu Round Trip
Set the Wayback Machine for 1932: radio is a vibrant business in the Bay Area with a number of important stations on the air and NBC’s new network operations creating a hub of radio program […]
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The Electrical Transcription Disc Project
The California Historical Radio Society is home to more than 2,000 electrical transcription (ET) discs. These look a bit like a standard 12″ LP photograph record, but they’re not the same thing. ET discs are […]
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KPO Sportscaster Don Thompson
This 1929 publicity photo shows KPO sportscaster Don Thompson, who had recently joined the station as a night announcer. Three years earlier he was an NFL player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only […]