KOBY 1550 AM San Mateo, CA
KOBY was the first station to air a Top-40 format in the Bay Area. Parked at the top end of the AM dial, KOBY was the descendant of Stephen Cisler’s debt-ridden KEAR, which had been […]
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KKSJ 1370 AM San Jose, CA
KKSJ’s brief life came after the shutdown of KEEN. Station owner United Broadcasting took the station “dark” for several months in 1993 and 1994, returning to the airwaves with a pop standards format and branding […]
KPEN 101.3 FM Atherton, CA
Launched in 1957, KPEN would morph into one of the nation’s most influential FM radio stations. The station began with the realization by a couple of Stanford students, James Gabbert and Gary Gielow, that FM […]
KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco, CA
In the summer of 1940, the San Francisco Unified School District filed the paperwork to request a permit to build not only the Bay Area’s first FM station–but the first west of the Mississippi. KALW […]
