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Alice Potter

2 April 2025 Stan 0

Alice Potter broke the glass ceiling, becoming a rare major-market female radio station general manager when she was appointed to the position at KRE in 1974. It was not an easy transition: KRE was losing […]

Bob Melrose

2 April 2025 Stan 0

Bob Melrose is a San Jose native who colleagues say was the ultimate radio news reporter. A graduate of Westmont High School in San Jose as well as San Jose State University, Melrose caught “the […]

Greg Kihn

1 April 2025 Stan 0

An actual rock star who became a radio star, Greg Kihn was born in Baltimore and moved to the Bay Area at 25 to pursue his dream of making it as a musician. He put […]

Stan Burford

1 April 2025 Stan 0

San Francisco native Stan Burford graduated from Washington High School, City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University and spent a half-century as a broadcaster in his home town. Burford is best known […]

Dan Odum

31 March 2025 Stan 1

Dan Odum influenced numerous future Bay Area broadcasters during his 25 years at the College of San Mateo, where he was hired in 1964 to manage the college’s radio station KCSM. A San Diego native […]

Stuart Hyde

31 March 2025 Stan 0

A pillar of the noted broadcasting program at San Francisco State University, Stuart Hyde was born in Fresno. He worked in the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond at the outbreak of World War II before enlisting […]