KOIT 93.3 FM San Francisco, CA
The KOIT call letters on the Bay Area FM band are much better known at 96.5, where one of the region’s most successful stations has lived for many years. But for a few years, a […]
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KATT 990 AM Pittsburg, CA
KATT succeeded KECC in 1957 after the purchase of the station by the Contra Costa Broadcasting Corporation, a group led by bandleader Les Malloy. Malloy, who had recently sold San Mateo station KVSM, announced that […]
KECC 990 AM Pittsburg, CA
The March 18, 1949 Federal Communications Commission decision to grant a license to the Pittsburg Broadcasting Company gave eastern Contra Costa County its first radio station. The owners chose the call letters KECC as a […]
KFWM 930 AM Oakland, CA
KFWM went on the air on October 15, 1925. The station was owned by the Oakland Educational Society, which had a contractual relationship with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (later known as the […]
KABL-FM 98.1 FM San Francisco, CA
KABL-FM replaced KAFE at 98.1 on the dial after Gordon McLendon’s 1965 acquisition of the station. For most of the next quarter-century, the station mirrored the programing of KABL, an earlier McLendon acquisition. By the […]
KPNI 101.7 FM Palo Alto, CA
KPNI represents one of several attempts by Bay Area newspaper publishers to jump into FM broadcasting, only to beat a hasty retreat. The 770-watt Class A station was owned by Peninsula Newspapers, Inc., the publisher […]