KFJC 89.7 FM Los Altos Hills, CA
Foothill College’s KFJC signed on at 88.5 MHz on the FM band on October 20, 1959. The station’s historians note that the original studio was, in fact, a broom closet on the old Foothill campus […]
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KDIA 1310 AM Oakland, CA
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KFRC 610 AM San Francisco, CA
KFRC was first heard on September 24, 1924. The station, initially located in the Hotel Whitcomb, was launched by a San Francisco radio shop called Radio Art Corporation. Young Harrison Holliway, a Stanford student employed […]
KLOK 1170 AM San Jose, CA
KLOK went on the air on October 13, 1946. Founder E.L. Barker marked the occasion by taking the microphone for a broadcast called “Birth of a Station”. At the outset, KLOK’s license permitted daytime-only operation […]
KEEN 1370 AM San Jose, CA
San Jose’s KEEN hit the airwaves on June 21, 1947, operating out of studios at the DeAnza Hotel. It was a star-studded launch for a station that would become a South Bay mainstay at 1370 […]