Main Control Room of Studio “A” Radio City, San Francisco Undated Photo [Go to Index of Articles] [Return to Photo Archive] [Return to Home Page] www.adams.net/~jfs All articles copyright © 1997-2006 by John F. Schneider. All rights […]
Meredith Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa, in 1902. He studied piano and flute at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, and by age 19 had become a solo flutist with the New York […]
Popular radio bandleader Meredith Willson (far left) conducts orchestra and vocalists from the NBC Studios at 111 Sutter Street in San Francisco, 1934. (Photo from a KPO promotional booklet, courtesy of Rich Kolm, from the […]
This ceramic mural, measuring 16 feet by 40 feet, towers over the entrance to the NBC Radio City Building above the main entrance marquee. It was designed by artist C. J. Fitzgerald to represent […]
Merv Griffin KFRC Radio 61 Circa 1945 A young Merv Griffin (1925-2007) started his career at KFRC in 1945 as a singer and staff announcer, having won his place in an open audition. He remained […]
Francis McCarty: Early San Francisco Radio Experimenter By John F. Schneider Experiments in radio voice transmission began in San Francisco as early as the discovery of the art itself. History tells us that Lee DeForest demonstrated […]
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