Budd Heyde was a music major who originally set out to be a theater organist.
But the media world was changing, radio was taking over, and over the course of a lengthy on-air career, Heyde hosted all manner of programs, from children’s shows to historical dramas.
His career spanned the changes of call letters at the same San Francisco station: KPO, then KNBC and finally KNBR. He was the narrator of two long-running programs: “This Is Your Home” and “The San Francisco Story”.
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