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 […]
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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 […]
KYCY 93.3 FM San Francisco, CA
“Young Country” KYCY came into being in 1994 when station owner Alliance Broadcasting ended the oldies format on KYA-FM and discarded the legendary KYA call letters (the AM calls had vanished more than 10 years […]
KRCB-FM 104.9 FM Rohnert Park, CA
Northern California Public Media’s KRCB-FM is an unusual, though not unique, example of a station that launched as a commercial enterprise and was converted to non-profit status. This came about in 2021 when Amaturo Sonoma […]