KSJO 92.3 FM San Jose, CA
San Jose’s KSJO wasn’t the first Bay Area commercial FM station to go on the air. That honor went to San Francisco’s KJBS-FM, which made its initial broadcast on December 19, 1946. But KSJO is […]
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KROW 930 & 960 AM Oakland, CA
Oakland’s KROW was first heard in 1925 as KFWM. The station was owned and operated by the Oakland Educational Society, which had a close contractual relationship with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (renamed […]
KRE 1400 AM Berkeley, CA
Originally licensed to the owner of a radio store on Adeline Street, Berkeley’s KRE went on the air on March 11, 1922. The station’s original transmitter site and studios were at the Claremont Hotel. It […]
KKSF 103.7 FM San Francisco, CA
Known earlier as KGO-FM, KSFX, and KLOK-FM, KKSF would build a memorable chapter in Bay Area radio history. Brown Broadcasting acquired the station from Davis-Weaver Broadcasting in 1987 for a reported $15 million. San Francisco […]
KJBS 1100 AM San Francisco, CA
KJBS was one of San Francisco’s pioneering radio stations, going on the air on January 3, 1925 with the unfortunate (and apparently randomly-assigned) call letters KFUQ. In very short order, the call letters were switched […]
