The Bay Area Radio Museum Presents John Schneider’s History of Radio Broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Please enjoy exploring “Voices Out of the Fog”!
KNBC Radio Belmont New Franklin Antenna 1949 KNBR’s present 550-foot transmitter tower was completed in 1949 when the station was known as KNBC. (It had been KPO until 1947.) This type of antenna is called […]
This photo shows the KGO transmitter building and antenna which operated from 1924 to 1947 at 5441 East 14th Street (now International Blvd.) in Oakland, on the grounds of a General Electric transformer factory. The […]
KPO Radio, Belmont Transmitter Building Under Construction, 1933
The generator room of the General Electric station contained nine motor-generator sets. These supplied current for heating the filaments of the tubes, plate potential for the power amplifiers and the 600 meter commercial transmitter, bias […]
This view of the main transmitter of the General Electric Station appears to have been taken earlier than the previous photo, and from the opposite corner of the room. Notice the open construction of all […]
An interior view of the new KRE transmitter building on Ashby Avenue, taken in 1937, shows that all new equipment had been purchased. According to former employee Bob Morrison, the station’s equipment was a source […]
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