KVSM 1050 AM San Mateo, CA
KVSM was launched on October 3, 1946. A special dedication ceremony was held at 10:50 AM, perfectly matching the station’s location in the middle of the radio dial. The studio and transmitter site was near […]
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KSMO 1550 AM San Mateo, CA
KSMO went on the air in 1947, licensed to the Amphlett Printing Company, which owned the San Mateo Times daily newspaper. The 1,000 watt station broadcast local news and high school sports and a mostly-classical musical mix. […]
KYA-FM 93.3 FM San Francisco, CA
A construction permit for KYA-FM was issued in September 1957 to the owners of KYA, J. Elroy McCaw (the father of future telecommunications magnate Craig McCaw) and John Keating. The two had paid $150,000 for […]
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 […]
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 […]