KPER 1290 AM Gilroy, CA
KPER came to life in 1957. Licensee Bernard and Jobbins Broadcast Company was a partnership of James Bernard and Charles “Chuck” Jobbins. Jobbins was a 35-year-old man who owned a Menlo Park electronics company. The […]
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KPER-FM 94.3 FM Gilroy, CA
The initial application for a station on FM channel 232 (94.3 MHz) in Gilroy was filed in 1967 by the owners of Gilroy’s daytime-only AM station, KPER. The license was finally granted in April 1970. […]
KINQ 92.1 FM Walnut Creek, CA
KINQ was a brief occupant of Walnut Creek’s only radio frequency, operating between predecessor KDFM and successor KKIS-FM. During its existence from 1983 to 1986 under the ownership of Schofield Broadcasting (which also owned Pittsburg […]
KDFM 92.1 FM Walnut Creek, CA
In the spring of 1964, Eugene Warner and F. Wellington Morse, who’d been involved in Bay Area broadcasting since the early 1920s, sold their Walnut Creek-licensed FM station to an entity called Stereophonic Broadcasters Inc. […]
KWME 92.1 FM Walnut Creek, CA
Ground was broken on the Lafayette transmitter site of KWME in the fall of 1959. Studios had already been set up at 1822 Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Walnut Creek, the station’s city of license. The […]
KRON 96.5 FM San Francisco, CA
KRON-FM hit the FM airwaves in the years after World War 2, when the owners of the San Francisco Chronicle decided to add another broadcast property to their portfolio (they were already operating KRON-TV). On […]