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 […]
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KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco, CA
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 […]
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 […]
History
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 […]
History
The NBC Chimes Machine
The NBC Chimes Machine By John Schneider Play the NBC Chimes: The sound of the NBC chimes is the sound of radio history itself. Probably no single sound better recalls the golden age of […]
History
That Radio Network Sound
That Radio Network Sound By Fred Krock Back in the days before satellites, radio network broadcasts had a certain characteristic sound. Every beginning radio announcer’s dream was to work for a network some day. Most […]