Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Logo

Bay Area Radio Museum & Hall of Fame

  • Welcome!
  • Hall of Fame
    • BARHOF 2025
    • BARHOF 2024
    • BARHOF 2023
    • BARHOF 2022
    • BARHOF 2021
    • BARHOF 2020
    • BARHOF 2019
    • BARHOF 2018
    • BARHOF 2017
    • BARHOF 2016
    • BARHOF 2015
    • BARHOF 2014
    • BARHOF 2013
    • BARHOF 2012
    • BARHOF 2011
    • BARHOF 2010
    • BARHOF 2009
    • BARHOF 2008
    • BARHOF 2007
    • BARHOF 2006
    • Legendary Station
    • Sherwood Award
    • Nominations
  • History
    • John Schneider’s Voices Out of the Fog
  • People
    • Submit your story to Bay Area Radio Pros
    • Don Sherwood Award
    • People
  • Stations
    • Legendary Station Award
    • Schedules
    • Jingles and Imaging
    • Music Surveys
  • Sports
  • News
  • About
    • About Us
    • BARHOF FAQ
    • Calendar
    • Join Us!
    • BARHOF Member’s Jacket
  • Contact
HomeStations

Stations

Images

KPO Radio, Belmont 50,000 Watt Transmitter 1933

13 August 2014 BARHOF 0

Transmitter room for the General Electric type RT-152-G 50KW transmitter, built under contract to NBC. The photo is dated March 28, 1933. On the left side of the room is the 5 KW transmitter which […]

KNBC Franklin Antenna (Photo)
History

KNBC Radio, Belmont – New Franklin Antenna (1949)

13 August 2014 BARHOF 0

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 […]

KGO Transmitter Tower (Photo)
Images

KGO Radio, Oakland Transmitter Facility 1924

13 August 2014 BARHOF 0

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 […]

Images

KPO Radio, Belmont Transmitter Building Under Construction, 1933

13 August 2014 BARHOF 0

KPO Radio, Belmont Transmitter Building Under Construction, 1933  

Images

KGO Radio, Oakland Motor Generator Room 1924

13 August 2014 BARHOF 0

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 […]

Images

KGO Radio, Oakland Main Transmitter 1924

13 August 2014 BARHOF 0

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 […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 10 11 12 … 18 »

Search

California Historical Radio Society

Bay Area Radio Museum & Hall of Fame

Radio Central
2152 Central Avenue
Alameda, California

Copyright © 2005 - 2025

California Historical Radio Society.

All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2025 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes