KOIT 96.5 FM San Francisco, CA
KOIT’s lengthy run among the Bay Area’s top-rated radio stations began many decades after the station’s birth. The station that would become KOIT-FM was launched in the years after World War II, when the owners […]
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KZST 100.1 FM Santa Rosa, CA
Gordon Zlot’s Sonoma County broadcast empire started with KZST, which went on the air from a transmitter on Mt. Taylor on April 18, 1971. It was the culmination of a dream for Zlot, who said […]
KSRO 1350 AM Santa Rosa, CA
For most of the 1930s, “local” radio wasn’t all that local in Sonoma County. Santa Rosa residents had a choice of seven signals from San Francisco, four from Oakland and one from Berkeley. They were […]
KTOB 1490 AM Petaluma, CA
KTOB succeeded KAFP on January 10, 1961. Lloyd Burlingham had become the sixth owner of a station that was barely ten years old when he purchased it in 1960. On the occasion of the call […]
KMEL 106.1 FM San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area’s 106.1 FM signal traces its beginnings to 1947, when KGO-FM shifted from 96.9 to 106.1. There would be more call letter and ownership changes, most notably in 1961 when KFRC-AM owner RKO […]
