
Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins
Al Collins was born in Rochester, NY. A talented swimmer, he was attending Miami University on an athletic scholarship when he stumbled into his calling, doing a fill-in shift on the campus radio station Collins’ […]
Al Collins was born in Rochester, NY. A talented swimmer, he was attending Miami University on an athletic scholarship when he stumbled into his calling, doing a fill-in shift on the campus radio station Collins’ […]
Ken Ackerman was raised in Sacramento and found his first on-air work at KROY, which aired a program produced at Grant Union High School. Upon graduation, Ackerman found part-time work at Sacramento’s KFBK. He recalls […]
Mel Venter, a Stanford University graduate, was a popular program host during radio’s early years. He would later serve as a newsman and sportscaster, as well as a station executive. Venter eventually made the transition […]
Peter Scott (born Peter Schwartz) came to KSFO after several years at KSJO in San Jose. Scott worked his way up from production coordinator to production director to assistant program director under Al Newman and […]
Ken Nielsen is a true radio and TV pioneer, known as “the father of KALW”. Nielsen came to the Bay Area from Denver in 1941 and convinced the San Francisco Unified School District to apply […]
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