Voices Out of the Fog | Bay Area Radio Museum & Hall of Fame

An Introduction to Voices Out of the Fog

10 August 2015 BARHOF 0

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 little information […]

Photo Archive

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View 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 Transmits From The Cliff House 1905

8 August 2015 BARHOF 0

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 […]

Early Broadcasting In The San Francisco Bay Area – Radio History

7 August 2015 BARHOF 2

Early Broadcasting In The San Francisco Bay Area Stations That Didn’t Survive: 1920-1925 By John F. Schneider Radio broadcasting as an experimental concept had an early start in the San Francisco Bay Area with the […]

The History of Pacific Coast Radio Station KGO

6 August 2015 BARHOF 2

Pacific Coast Station KGO By R.C. Koernig, Engineer, KGO March 1924 This is a complete description of the most modern and most powerful broadcast station yet on the air. Full details are given of the […]

The NBC Pacific Coast Network

5 August 2015 BARHOF 2

The NBC Pacific Coast Network By John F. Schneider INTRODUCTION The period of the 1930s and 40s has been appropriately called “Radio’s Golden Age.” During these years, the nation was entertained and informed by a host […]