2022
Dave Padilla
A Bay Area native who has always worked in the San Francisco market, Dave Padilla got his start as a news intern at KSOL and made his way up to news director and anchor there […]
Archives: Inductees
2022
Annalisa Parziale
Annalisa, as she’s known to listeners, was born in Las Vegas, grew up in Medford, Massachusetts, and graduated from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. As a child, she practiced for a future radio career, making […]
2022
Art Finley
Art Finley (born Arthur Finger) was a popular TV and radio personality, spending most of his career in San Francisco. He began his broadcasting career at KXYZ in Houston in 1943. He enlisted in the […]
2023
Ron Reynolds
Ron was described as a “master broadcaster” by longtime KCBS news director Ed Cavagnaro (BARHOF 2014). Reynolds’ voice was his calling card at KEWB, KNEW, KNBR, and in later years at KCBS, where he anchored […]
2023
John Hardy
Mississippi-born John Hardy studied stage and radio acting at Columbia College in Chicago, where he got his start in broadcasting. After a stop in New Orleans, John came to the Bay Area in 1955, first […]
2023
Bob Foster
One of the first television columnists in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bob Foster of the San Mateo Times covered the birth of San Francisco’s first television station, KPIX, in December 1948. Foster remained on […]