BARHOF
One of KEEN’S Founding Fathers Remembers
The Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame is pleased to offer this piece of Bay Area radio history, courtesy of the Snell family. On November 15, 1983, Greg Snell sat down with his […]
History
History
Golden Star Radio: San Francisco Broadcasting Pioneers
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 […]
CHRS
Kieve On Kieve: A Radio Legend Looks Back
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 […]
History
An Introduction to Voices Out of the Fog
John Schneider San Francisco was a great radio city in the golden age of radio, rivaling New York, Los Angeles and Chicago in its importance as a radio programming center. Why, then, is there so […]
History
Photo Archive
View the photos from the Voices Out of The Fog Collection. www.adams.net/~jfs All articles copyright © 1997-2006 by John F. Schneider. All rights reserved. Reprinted with the generous permission of the author.
Francis McCarty
Francis McCarty Transmits From The Cliff House 1905
Young Francis McCarty was one of the first to experiment with the transmission of the voice by wireless. Here he is shown transmitting from the Cliff House in San Francisco. This public demonstration of his […]