KGBA 1430 AM Santa Clara, CA
KGBA wasn’t around for long. The station’s license was obtained in 1963 by a veteran radio man named George B. Bairey. Bairey had operated radio stations in North Dakota and Minnesota in the 1930s, served […]
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KIBE 1220 AM Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto’s first licensed commercial radio station made its inaugural broadcast from studios built into the Sky Cafe at Palo Alto Airport on September 11, 1949. The call letters were a nod to co-owner and […]
KBBL 106.3 FM / 93.7 FM Cazadero, CA
KBBL can trace its beginnings to a Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction that granted a license to the tiny Sonoma County community of Cazadero. A construction permit was granted in 2006 and licensee Ace Radio […]
KNTA 1430 AM Santa Clara, CA
KNTA succeeded KEGL in July 1976 with Federal Communications Commission approval of a change in call letters. Under the continuing ownership of David Jacks’ Cascade Broadcasting, KNTA stuck with the Spanish-language programming that had been […]
KAZA 1290 AM Gilroy, CA
KAZA came into being on July 15, 1967 when South Valley Broadcasters did away with the station’s original call letters, KPER. The 5,000-watt daytime-only station’s programming was almost exclusively in Spanish by that time. In […]
KMVQ 99.7 FM San Francisco, CA
While the Bay Area’s 99.7 FM frequency has been filled since 1949 when NBC put KNBC-FM on the air as a sister station to KNBC (later KNBR), the KMVQ era dates only to 2007. At […]