Bay Area Radio Hall Of Fame
It’s time to voice your choice for 2018 Sherwood Awards! We’re looking for the people’s choice for induction into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018, along with honoring your favorite current personalities.
Video: Ben Fong-Torres, author of many important books on music history, and writer of the Chronicle’s Radio Waves column. Ben is a member of the Bay Area Hall of Fame’s Class of 2010.
Preserving and Honoring Radio Broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area
Andy Is Saving Our Radio History
NEW AUDIO POSTED! Volunteer Andrew Welburn has finished digitizing hundreds of hours of newly-discovered Bay Area radio programming. Soon we will add many of these shows to this site under the station categories, along with dates and information about their airing. Most of these rare audio archives have been buried in garages and attics and file cabinets, many of them airchecks saved in obsolete formats, like analog open reel. At CHRS/BARM, we have an audio dubbing and transfer facility that… Read the full post
Radio Day by the Bay 2017 Live in Alameda
Radio Day By The Bay — A Big Success!!! See all the photos and videos of this event by clicking the link below. It was our annual radio flea market, auction, and your chance to see CHRS museum under construction at our headquarters, 2152 Central Ave, “Radio Central.” Our auction, live music, live radio play and the announcement of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017 were part of the event program. This is a yearly event, a chance to… Read the full post
Help CHRS Fund “KSAN Jive 95: The Movie”
Our CHRS Radio Dog Production, “KSAN Jive 95: The Movie,” continues in production. But making a feature length documentary is costly. We are seeking to raise $150,000. The KSAN Jive 95 story is important for CHRS to tell and immortalize in film. KSAN during the period from 1968-1980 was pivotal in the development of our popular culture. Part of our recent grant from the Rex Foundation was earmarked toward the KSAN Movie project. We commissioned famous poster artist Wes Wilson for a movie poster. Wes and his… Read the full post
The Bay Area Radio Museum
The Bay Area Radio Museum (BARM) presents archival broadcasts, historical documents, photos, music surveys and biographies that tell the stories of Bay Area Radio. Trace the history of radio in the San Francisco Bay Area from its origins in the early 20th Century through its development into a network powerhouse in the 1930s and 1940s and a thriving source of entertainment, news and sports today.
Introducing the 2018 “Legendary Station of the Year,”
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VOTE NOW FOR THE 2018 DON SHERWOOD AWARDS
Named for the World’s Greatest Disc Jockey, Don Sherwood (BARHOF 2006), the awards are the “people’s choice” for most popular active personalities in the music and news/talk categories, and for induction into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in the Legends/Lifetime Achievement category.
Public voting in these categories will continue through June 1, 2018, and the Sherwood Award winners will be announced at this year’s Radio Day By The Bay event in Alameda on July 21, along with inductees in other categories, including Announcer, News, Management, Sports, Pioneer, and Specialty, which will be voted on by current members of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.
New KPEN Book Now Available – Support CHRS & BARM
“The Story Of KPEN” by Gary M. Gielow. CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW. Only $23.95 including shipping. CHRS is the sole distributer of this book. 100% of funds raised are being donated to CHRS.
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