Hilly Rose
Hilly Rose was a pioneering talk show host whose career spanned seven decades. On KCBS, where he began as a news reporter, he memorably landed an interview with the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania […]
Archives: Inductees
Dean Maddox
Dean Maddox was a popular personality and sportscaster in the 1930s and 1940s on many stations, including KYA, KFRC and KGO, where he broadcast his show on Sundays from the Cliff House. A British Columbia […]
Wilda Wilson Church
Wilda Wilson Church produced and directed radio drama programming for KRE in its earliest days, the early 1920’s, and went on to produce shows for KGO and NBC’s Pacific Coast network. In 1955, San Francisco Examiner […]
Narsai David
The long-time food and wine editor for KCBS, Narsai David was raised in Turlock. He attended the University of California, Berkeley. During college he supported himself by working at Hy’s Restaurant in Oakland. A few […]
Edward Edison
Edward Edison joined Robert Hammett in 1955 to create the important Bay Area engineering consulting firm Hammett & Edison. Hammett & Edison began with a focus on broadcast station coverage, measuring and improving signal coverage, […]
Robert Hammett
Following radio research at Harvard Labs during World War II, Robert Hammett started his own engineering consulting firm in San Francisco in 1952, partnering with Edward Edison a few years later. Hammett & Edison began […]