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Honolulu Round Trip
Set the Wayback Machine for 1932: radio is a vibrant business in the Bay Area with a number of important stations on the air and NBC’s new network operations creating a hub of radio program […]
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KNBR-FM 99.7 FM San Francisco, CA
KNBR-FM came to life as KNBC-FM on May 15, 1948, simulcasting the signal of legacy National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) station KNBC. The call letters would be changed to KNBR and KNBR-FM in 1962. The FM […]
KGO-FM 106.1 & 103.7 FM San Francisco, CA
The original plans for the American Broadcasting Company’s Bay Area FM station called for it to transmit on 96.9 MHz. ABC’s initial paperwork, filed in 1944, called for a transmitter location on Mt. Diablo. A […]
KNAI 99.7 FM San Francisco, CA
Born as KNBC-FM in 1949 and later known as KNBR-FM, NBC’s San Francisco FM station became KNAI in 1975 when the parent company launched America’s first nationwide all-news radio service. KNAI’s call letters were a […]
KIBE 1220 AM Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto’s first licensed commercial radio station made its inaugural broadcast from studios built into the Sky Cafe at Palo Alto Airport on September 11, 1949. The call letters were a nod to co-owner and […]
KHUM 1580 AM Santa Rosa, CA
Humbly billing itself as “America’s Most Glamorous Radio Station”, KHUM began broadcasting from poolside studios at Santa Rosa’s El Rancho Hotel on December 3, 1961. The fledgling 500-watt station at the top end of the […]