Clark Reid
Clark Reid arrived in the Bay Area in 1988 after many years in the Kansas City market. Over the next dozen years, Reid was heard as a show host on KKIS, KSFO/KYA-FM, Big 98, and […]
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KATD 95.3 FM Los Gatos, CA
KATD replaced KRVE at the 95.3 FM dial position in Los Gatos in September 1985. The two remaining owners of KRVE, Joe Rosa and Batista Vieira, had decided to take a shot at a Top […]
Dr. Don Rose
Born Donald Duane Rosenberg in North Platte, Nebraska, “Dr. Don” has been referred to as the “last of the great Top 40 DJ’s”. His professional radio career began in 1955. While attending the University of […]
Bobby Ocean
Born Ernest Raymond Lenhart, Bobby Ocean was first heard on Bay Area radio on Pittsburg’s KKIS as “Captain Turntable” Ocean’s voice became synonymous with Top 40 radio, whether you know him as Radio Ray Farrell, […]
Al “Jazzbeaux” Collins
Al Collins was born in Rochester, NY. A talented swimmer, he was attending Miami University on an athletic scholarship when he stumbled into his calling, doing a fill-in shift on the campus radio station Collins’ […]
KMPX 106.9 FM / 98.9 FM San Francisco, CA
Leon A. “Lee” Crosby’s $146,000 purchase of KHIP from Franklin Mieuli gained Federal Communications Commission approval in June 1962. Within two months, Crosby had made some moves. One was literal: studios were relocated to 1212 […]