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Carter B. Smith

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Carter Blakemore Smith was a San Francisco native who graduated from Lowell High School, City College of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. He was first heard on Bay Area radio while still studying […]

Ronn Owens

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Born Ronald Lowenstein in New York City, Ronn Owens was a fixture on San Francisco’s KGO during the station’s long run of ratings dominance. A graduate of Temple University, Owens made his first money in […]

Don Mozley

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Santa Ana-born Don Mozley was a recent graduate of the University of Missouri when CBS News hired him in 1942 and sent him to San Francisco to help cover World War II. At 21 years […]

Franklin Mieuli

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Franklin Mieuli was born in San Jose. He attended the University of Oregon and served in the US Navy during World War II. After the war, Mieuli found work as an advertising executive at the […]

Ron Lyons

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Born Ronald Tomberlin in Asheville, NC, Ron Lyons broke into radio while still in high school. He wound up in California in 1960, working for a time at Sacramento’s KRAK before becoming a top-40 DJ […]

Bob Kieve

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Robert S. Kieve was born in New Jersey and worked at the campus radio station while attending Harvard University. After graduation in 1943, he worked in the State Department’s Office of War Information in Madrid, […]