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 […]
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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 […]
Stuart Hyde
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 […]
Lee Kopp – KQW – KXRX – KSJO – KCBS
Lee Kopp Radio Man Lee Kopp (1925-2010, born LeRoy M. Kopp, Jr.) was a radio man. He spent his entire life with a radio nearby. Radio was in his blood. Lee was born in Kansas […]
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A Backstage Visit to NBC Radio City (Part 2)
A Backstage Visit to NBC Radio City San Francisco in the 1950s Part 2 By Fred Krock RETURN TO PART 1 Master Control When visitors got off an elevator into the third-floor foyer, master control […]