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Earlier known as KSAN (AM) and descending from pioneering San Francisco stations KGTT and KGGC, KSOL came into being in 1964.  The station was purchased by entertainers Les Malloy and Del Courtney, who changed the […]

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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 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 […]

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 […]

KYA signed on from the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on December 18, 1926 as part of the Pacific Broadcasting Company.  It was the second station in what was intended to be a network of […]