KRPM 98.5 FM San Jose, CA
KRPM was the personal project of Edward Meece, a World War II conscientious objector who’d played a significant role in the launch of Berkeley’s KPFA and served as the station’s chief engineer for several years. […]
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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 […]
KCMA 90.3 FM San Francisco, CA
Please see KUSF for details of this station, which was on the air between 1964 and 1973.
KSND 94.3 & 94.5 FM Gilroy, CA
KSND was a brief occupant of two frequencies assigned to Gilroy. Entertainment Radio Incorporated’s station (then KPER-FM) was a Class A FM station with a limited signal at 94.3 MHz on the dial, as well […]
KPER 1290 AM Gilroy, CA
KPER came to life in 1957. Licensee Bernard and Jobbins Broadcast Company was a partnership of James Bernard and Charles “Chuck” Jobbins. Jobbins was a 35-year-old man who owned a Menlo Park electronics company. The […]
KPER-FM 94.3 FM Gilroy, CA
The initial application for a station on FM channel 232 (94.3 MHz) in Gilroy was filed in 1967 by the owners of Gilroy’s daytime-only AM station, KPER. The license was finally granted in April 1970. […]