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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A pillar of the noted broadcasting program at San Francisco State University, Stuart Hyde was born in Fresno. He worked in the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond at the outbreak of World War II before enlisting […]
In the summer of 1940, the San Francisco Unified School District filed the paperwork to request a permit to build not only the Bay Area’s first FM station–but the first west of the Mississippi. KALW […]
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