KJZY 93.7 FM / 106.3 FM Sebastopol, CA
“Jazzy 93.7” went on the air on November 5, 1995. Dr. John Carollo was the original licensee, having survived a seven-year battle to win the license after twenty others applied for it. After spending a […]
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KWVF 102.7 FM Guerneville, CA
KWVF, billing itself as “102.7 The Wolf”, went on the air in 2012. The station’s original licensee was Redwood Empire Stereocasters, the owner of KZST. KWVF was sold to Lawrence Amaturo’s Amaturo Sonoma Media Group, […]
KZSU 90.1 FM Stanford, CA
Stanford University’s campus station issued its first broadcast on October 12, 1964. Its 10 watt signal covered a reported radius of seven miles, meaning portions of the sprawling Stanford campus may not have been able […]
KNBA 1190 AM Vallejo, CA
Originally broadcasting as KGYW, Vallejo’s first radio station changed hands several times before being purchased by Mary Ashbacker-Gunberg of Michigan. She was the daughter of pioneer radio broadcaster Karl Ashbacker. On September 1, 1958, the […]
KMPX 106.9 FM / 98.9 FM San Francisco, CA
Leon A. “Lee” Crosby’s $146,000 purchase of KHIP from Franklin Mieuli gained Federal Communications Commission approval in June 1962. Within two months, Crosby had made some moves. One was literal: studios were relocated to the […]
KPO 680 AM San Francisco, CA
You might call KPO the “mother” of one storied set of San Francisco call letters (KNBC) and the “grandmother” of another (KNBR). KPO came to life on April 17, 1922, broadcasting from the Hale Brothers […]