Heber Smith
A native of Evanston, IL, Heber Smith moved to the Bay Area as a teenager, graduating from Berkeley High School before enrolling at the University of California. World War 2 would interrupt his education. He […]
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KBGG 98.1 FM San Francisco, CA
KBGG was a short-lived phase in the history of the 98.1 frequency in the Bay Area. The call letters first appeared on January 2, 1995, several months after the format on precursor KABL-FM had been […]
Jon Miller
Jon Miller is a Bay Area native whose national baseball broadcasting exploits earned him the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award in 2010. Miller grew up in Hayward, where he became the play-by-play […]
KSRO 1350 AM Santa Rosa, CA
For most of the 1930s, “local” radio wasn’t all that local in Sonoma County. Santa Rosa residents had a choice of seven signals from San Francisco, four from Oakland and one from Berkeley. They were […]
KROW 930 & 960 AM Oakland, CA
Oakland’s KROW was first heard in 1925 as KFWM. The station was owned and operated by the Oakland Educational Society, which had a close contractual relationship with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (renamed […]
KBLX 102.9 FM Berkeley, CA
KBLX traces its roots to Valentine’s Day 1949, when pioneering Berkeley station KRE added an FM signal. The station would be known as KRE-FM and KPAT-FM until 1979, when Percy Sutton’s Inner City Broadcasting bought […]