Preston D. Allen
Oakland native Preston D. Allen played a significant role in the early years of the Bay Area radio industry. As a high school student, he’d already obtained one of the first amateur radio licenses issued […]
Archives: Inductees
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 […]
Dean Maddox
Dean Maddox was a popular personality and sportscaster from the 1930s to the 1950s on several stations, with notable stays at KYA, KFRC and KGO. A British Columbia native, Dean Maddox graduated from the University […]
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, […]