Radio Day By The Bay 2023 (Image)

CHRS Invites Fans To Radio Day By The Bay

13 July 2023 BARHOF 0

The annual celebration of all things on the airwaves – Radio Day By The Bay – will take place on Saturday, July 22, at Radio Central in Alameda. Hosted by Bay Area radio legend Terry McGovern (BARHOF 2008), the event begins at 8 AM at the California Historical [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…]

Radio Day by the Bay 2017 Live in Alameda

14 May 2017 BARHOF 2

Radio Day By The Bay — A Big Success!!! See all the photos and videos of this event by clicking the link below. It was our annual radio flea market, auction, and your chance to see CHRS museum under construction at our headquarters, 2152 Central Ave, “Radio Central.” Our auction, [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…]