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 […]
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 […]
KQBY 1550 AM San Francisco, CA
KQBY came into the world fighting. The station previously known as KOBY switched from Top-40 to a “fine music” format in September 1960 and immediately sued KABL, claiming its established competitor had poached KQBY’s marketing […]
KREO 92.9 FM Healdsburg, CA
While it took decades for Santa Rosa to get its second AM station, the local FM dial filled up fast during the ‘70s. By the end of that decade, broadcasters looking to serve and profit […]