KBAY 100.3 FM San Jose, CA
KBAY (at 100.3 on the FM dial) was first granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission in 1959, with the call letters KEEN-FM. Owners United Broadcasting had put San Jose sister station KEEN […]
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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 […]
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 […]