Radio Day 2024 Poster

CHRS Invites Fans To Radio Day By The Bay 2024

3 June 2024 BARHOF 0

The annual celebration of all things on the airwaves – Radio Day By The Bay – will take place on Saturday, July 20, at Radio Central in Alameda. This year’s event arrives as the California Historical Radio Society marks its 50th birthday (1974-2024). Hosted by Bay Area radio [Read more…]

Tom Donahue (Photo)

Radio Museum Website Update

6 June 2018 BARHOF 0

A quick update from your friendly Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame website development team: We are migrating the website to a new server, which involves packing up and carrying thousands upon thousands of items — images and audio files — from the old server to [Read more…]

CHRS Surplus Radios (Photo)

CHRS Spring Cleaning Sale Postponed

22 March 2018 BARHOF 0

A quick update: the big Spring Cleaning Sale at Radio Central, scheduled for this weekend, has been postponed until Saturday, March 31, at Radio Central, the home of CHRS and the Bay Area Radio Museum in Alameda. Meanwhile, we’re still looking for volunteers for this Saturday (March 24) [Read more…]

“Sheila Rene Backstage” Archives

6 January 2016 BARHOF 7

SHEILA RENE – A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Sheila Rene was Born March 14, 1939 in Trinity, Texas. Moved to San Francisco in the 1960s  where she fell in love with the SF Music Scene and started interviewing musicians. Sheila had no problem getting back stage since she was a “big [Read more…]

ET Project

25 August 2014 BARHOF 0

Our museum houses several hundred electrical transcriptions (also called “transcription discs”) of radio programs, now being encoded for our website for visitors to enjoy. The audio transcription disc collection of The California Historical Radio Society is being made available in encoded format. These 16″ discs represent audio history [Read more…]

Gary Gielow at KPEN (1957 Photo)

From KPEN to KOFY: James Gabbert’s Scrapbook

20 August 2014 BARHOF 0

James Gabbert, a member of the BARHOF Class of 2006 and a true Bay Area radio icon, has shared an extensive collection of newspaper articles, correspondence and advertising chronicling his extensive career in Bay Area Broadcasting. James Jeffrey Gabbert was born in Chico, Calif., in 1936. The son [Read more…]