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”!
These are the engineers who maintained and operated KPO’s 50,000-watt transmitter in Belmont, mid-1930s. Left to Right: R. W. Clark, Assistant Station Engineer; F. L. Barron; Curtis D. Peck, KPO Station Engineer; W. D. Kellogg; […]
In addition to managing KFRC, Harrison Holliway was the announcer/emcee of the station’s popular variety show, “Blue Monday Jamboree,” which was performed each Monday evening in the station’s studio in the Don Lee Cadillac building. […]
Every NBC-San Francisco announcer had stories to tell about encounters with the “announcer’s delight” (at right in photo). Network announcers – not the engineers – were responsible for pushing the correct series of buttons to direct […]
Here is another view of an NBC remote broadcast from the 1940s. The location and event are unknown. The engineer operating the mixer at left is Ernie Jefferson. The name of the engineer on the […]
General Electric built a grand studio building for its station KGO in 1924. The station was located on the grounds of a G.E. transformer factory at 5441 East 14th Street (now International Blvd.) in Oakland. […]
The popular program “One Man’s Family” is being broadcast from Studio C at 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 1934. Created by Carlton Morse, the program was heard on the NBC Pacific Coast Network. Shown are (left […]
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