The annual celebration of all things on the airwaves – Radio Day By The Bay – will take place on Saturday, July 20, at Radio Central in Alameda. This year’s event arrives as the California Historical Radio Society marks its 50th birthday (1974-2024). Hosted by Bay Area radio [Read more…]
A quick update from your friendly Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame website development team: We are migrating the website to a new server, which involves packing up and carrying thousands upon thousands of items — images and audio files — from the old server to [Read more…]
Via Facebook and Ronn Owens, we receive the news that Ted Wygant, longtime news anchor of KGO (810 AM) with Jim Dunbar, has passed away. He was 85 years old. Ted was elected to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2009, and had been living in [Read more…]
Oakland’s KDIA Lucky 13 Named 2018 Legendary Station The Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame, in cooperation with the California Historical Radio Society and the Broadcast Legends, is proud to announce that KDIA Radio (1310 AM) of Oakland has been named as the recipient of its [Read more…]
San Francisco born-and-bred Ed McLaughlin, who rose from a part-time program host to become one of the titans of broadcasting, died on January 18, 2018. He was 91 years old. Mr. McLaughlin joined the Army fresh out of high school in 1943 near the end of World War II, then was [Read more…]
NEW AUDIO POSTED! Volunteer Andrew Welburn has finished digitizing hundreds of hours of newly-discovered Bay Area radio programming. Soon we will add many of these shows to this site under the station categories, along with dates and information about their airing. Most of these rare audio archives have [Read more…]
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