Archives: Stations

In the spring of 1964, Eugene Warner and F. Wellington Morse, who’d been involved in Bay Area broadcasting since the early 1920s,  sold their Walnut Creek-licensed FM  station to an entity called Stereophonic Broadcasters Inc. […]

Ground was broken on the Lafayette transmitter site of KWME in the fall of 1959. Studios had already been set up at 1822 Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Walnut Creek, the station’s city of license. The […]

KRON-FM hit the airwaves in the years after World War 2, when the owners of the San Francisco Chronicle decided to join the rush to grab newly-authorized FM licenses. They were already preparing to launch […]

KEMR briefly existed as a Bay Area station in two periods (a few days in April 2002 and then from January 2003 to September 2004).  Owner Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation moved the call letters from KSOL […]

A construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission in 1960 to insurance agent William Greene for a new FM station, to be licensed to Los Altos and broadcasting at 97.7 mHz. Greene quickly […]