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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 […]

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KHUM 1580 AM Santa Rosa, CA

Humbly billing itself as “America’s Most Glamorous Radio Station”, KHUM began broadcasting from poolside studios at Santa Rosa’s El Rancho Hotel on December 3, 1961. The fledgling 500-watt station at the top end of the […]

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KJAX 1150 AM Santa Rosa, CA

“The Nifty Eleven Fifty” was first heard at 11:50 a.m. on December 7, 1958. The license had been granted to Joseph Gamble and his brother Lew Gamble. Joseph Gamble was an experienced station operator, having […]