Archives: Stations

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In 2005, the 92.1 FM station in Walnut Creek was acquired by Coast Radio, owned by John and Jim Levitt. They were the sons of Joe Levitt, the longtime owner of San Jose’s KXRX and […]

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 […]