KLX 910 AM Oakland, CA
One of the Bay Area’s pioneering radio stations, KLX made its first broadcast on July 25, 1922. To be fair, it wasn’t a new station; about a year earlier, radio pioneer Preston Allen had obtained a […]
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KFAT 94.5 FM Gilroy, CA
When Laura Ellen Hopper and her then-husband Jeremy Lansman put KFAT on the air in 1975, they were well ahead of the “Americana” musical curve. Yet the eclectic music mix programmed by Hopper found an […]
KYCY 93.3 FM San Francisco, CA
“Young Country” KYCY came into being in 1994 when station owner Alliance Broadcasting ended the oldies format on KYA-FM and discarded the legendary KYA call letters (the AM calls had vanished more than 10 years […]
KRCB-FM 104.9 FM Rohnert Park, CA
Northern California Public Media’s KRCB-FM is an unusual, though not unique, example of a station that launched as a commercial enterprise and was converted to non-profit status. This came about in 2021 when Amaturo Sonoma […]
KJZY 93.7 FM / 106.3 FM Sebastopol, CA
“Jazzy 93.7” went on the air on November 5, 1995 as the latest station in the portfolio of Gordon Zlot‘s Redwood Empire Stereocasters. While the station is licensed to Sebastopol, its studios have always been […]
KWVF 102.7 FM Guerneville, CA
KWVF, billing itself as “102.7 The Wolf”, went on the air in 2012. The station’s original licensee was Redwood Empire Stereocasters, the owner of KZST. KWVF was sold to Lawrence Amaturo’s Amaturo Sonoma Media Group, […]