Harvey Stone served 33 years as General Manager/President of KBLX. His tenure extended from the purchase of KRE by Inner Cities Broadcasters until the sale of the station to to Entercom in 2012.
Stone was known as a creative manager, helping make “The Quiet Storm” format an industry standout. He guided the standalone minority-owned KBLX in competition against clusters owned by larger broadcast corporations to be consistently rated among the market’s top stations through the 1990s.
He is also considered “the godfather” of the California Historical Radio Society for helping secure the historic KRE building in Berkeley as the organization’s first home.