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The KPO antenna was a “T” type, four wires spread six feet apart, and 114 feet in length. It was supported by two 125-foot tall towers which had been erected by the Pacific Coast Steel [...]

The transmitter room of KPO was located on the sixth floor of the Hale Brothers Department Store. On the operator’s desk is a radio receiver which was used to listen for distress calls from sea [...]

Taking Inventory in the Microphone Storage Room

An NBC broadcast crew originates a program. The location and identities of the people shown are unknown. The box on left is a shortwave transmitter, a microphone mixer is in the center, and the other [...]

This view of the NBC remote broadcast truck was taken outside the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, early 1930’s.

“Cowboy Bob” hosted a popular Western music program on KYA in the 1940s.

This was the largest of two KTAB studios located on the first floor of the Tenth Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland. All of the weekday evening broadcasts took place in this studio.

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, [...]