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KYA Radio, San Francisco “Cowboy Bob” Circa 1940s
“Cowboy Bob” hosted a popular Western music program on KYA in the 1940s.
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KTAB Radio, Oakland Rev. George W. Phillips “Hour of Prayer” 1926
The Rev. George W. Phillips broadcasts the daily “Hour of Prayer” program over KTAB. As the founder of KTAB – the station of Third Avenue Baptist Church – and a pioneer in Bay Area radio, […]
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KPO Radio, San Francisco Lyle Tucker, Host of “Big Brother Club” 1925
Lyle Tucker was host of the late afternoon “Big Brother Club” children’s program on KPO in 1925. Here he is shown in front of the microphone in KPO’s Studio “B.” After a year, he left […]
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KPO Radio, San Francisco First Studio and Transmitter 1922
This view shows radio station KPO as built by Joe Martineau on the sixth floor of Hale Brothers’ Department Store in 1922. A piano and a phonograph were provided as a source of program material. […]
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NBC Radio, San Francisco Max Dolin Conducts the NBC Studio Orchestra 1927
This photo was taken in an annex studio that NBC maintained in the Hale Brothers’ Department Store through the late 1920s.
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KGO Transmitter Engineers Transmitter Building Oakland, 1934
KGO Technical Crew — This is the transmitter staff of KGO, San Francisco. Left to right are: M.O. Smith, H.C. Dunton, J.I. Ball, D.H. Atkins, A.E. Evans (station engineer), A.E. Fisher and A.E. Eldredge. SOURCE: Broadcasting […]