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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 […]

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KINQ 92.1 FM Walnut Creek, CA

KINQ was a brief occupant of Walnut Creek’s only radio frequency, operating between predecessor KDFM and successor KKIS-FM. During its existence from 1983 to early 1987 under the ownership of Chabin Communications Corporation (which also […]

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KDFM 92.1 FM Walnut Creek, CA

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 KWME to an entity called Stereophonic Broadcasters […]