KROW Becomes KABL (May 1959)
KROW Becomes KABL Monday, May 11, 1959 The recording that accompanies this exhibit is truly the stuff of legend. Taped by James Zahn over the weekend of May 9-10, 1959, it captures a fabled moment […]
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Midday Masterpieces and Limelight: KABL 960, Oakland (1960)
KABL 960 Radio Midday Masterpieces and Limelight Oakland, California Thursday, September 8, 1960 Featuring John K. Chapel with the news These early broadcasts from Gordon McLendon’s legendary KABL, shortly into its long run as the preeminent “Beautiful […]
Carter Blakemore Smith – KRE KSAN KNBR KSFO KABL – Carter B. Smith
Carter B. Smith “The Prince Trapped Inside The Body Of A Disc Jockey” Elected to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, 2007 ABOVE: Carter’s got a hernia, and Don Sherwood doesn’t like the looks […]
KLZE 97.7 FM Los Altos, CA
“Classy 97” replaced the second version of KPEN at 97.7 on the FM dial in 1984, after Dallas broadcaster Ken Dowe bought the station and set out to take on South Bay easy-listening leader KBAY. […]
KSBR 100.5 FM San Bruno, CA
The story of San Bruno’s KSBR is one of the more remarkable in Bay Area radio history, though the station itself left few memories among the listening audience. It was largely an on-air laboratory for […]
KAFE 98.1 FM Oakland / San Francisco, CA
KAFE was the personal project of Daniel Xavier Solo, who’d dropped out of Oakland’s Fremont High School to become a teenaged announcer at KRE in Berkeley. Dan Solo earned a First Class Radiotelephone Operator’s License […]