Archives: Stations

The San Francisco Examiner heralded the arrival of KHYD with the words, “booming FM radio gets another Bay Area outlet.” KHYD went on the air in early 1961 with studios at the popular International Kitchen restaurant […]

KBCO hit the airwaves in 1959 under a license held by Bay FM Broadcasters, Inc. Bay FM was headed by Saul Levine, who would go on to a lengthy and legendary career as a broadcast […]

Low-powered KPFB is a sister station of the Pacifica Foundation’s non-commercial KPFA. The Foundation asked the Federal Communications Commission for a permit to build the new station in 1953 and it went on the air […]

Soon after Richard Eaton’s United Broadcasting Company added the San Mateo-licensed property to its portfolio and re-christened it KVEZ, the station jettisoned its previous “Music Unlimited” format and began carrying foreign-language programming. Eaton had made […]

KUFY joined the mix of Bay Area radio stations in 1963, five years after paperwork had first been filed seeking a new FM license at 107.7 on the dial. The station’s original city of license […]

When owner Richard Eaton’s United Broadcasting Company shifted from a “Request Radio” popular-music format to R&B/soul music and changed the call letters to KSOL on September 11, 1972, it set the stage for another Bay […]