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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 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 […]

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. […]

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-FM hit the airwaves in the years after World War 2, when the owners of the San Francisco Chronicle decided to join the rush to grab newly-authorized FM licenses. They were already preparing to launch […]