Archives: Stations

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 […]

KAFE was the personal project of Daniel Xavier Solo, who’d dropped out of Oakland’s Fremont High School to become a teenaged announcer at KRE in Berkeley. Dan Solo earned a First Class Radiotelephone Operator’s License […]

KXXX, known as “X-100”, occupied the 99.7 spot on the Bay Area FM dial between 1998 and 1991. The station succeeded KYUU, which had enjoyed a strong run from the late 1970s into the mid […]