KWMR 90.5 FM Point Reyes Station, CA
West Marin County’s KWMR officially went on the air on May 2, 1999. The first sounds heard on the station came from the David Thom Bluegrass Band playing in the Red Barn, but for several […]
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KDIA 1640 AM Vallejo CA
For information about the better-known Oakland station that carried the KDIA call letters, please go here. This KDIA came into being in 1998, a few months after the legendary call letters were jettisoned by the […]
KXBT 1190 AM Vallejo, CA
The KXBT call letters briefly occupied Vallejo’s 1190 AM signal. The station known for years as KNBA was sold by longtime owner-operator Lou Ripa’s estate after Ripa’s 1992 death. The buyer was North Bay Broadcasters, […]
KDYA 1190 AM Vallejo, CA
The KDYA call letters have been heard at 1190 on the AM dial since 1998. That’s when Baybridge Communications, which had acquired KXBT from Quick Communications a few months earlier, dropped the Vietnamese-language programming that […]
KFRC-FM 99.7 FM San Francisco, CA
The second in a series of three different frequencies to carry the KFRC-FM call letters, this station came into being in 1991 when Bedford Broadcasting Company paid a reported $18.5 million to buy KXXX from […]
KFRC-FM 106.9 FM San Francisco, CA
This station is the third to use the KFRC-FM call letters in San Francisco. The first dates back to 1961; more about that station here. The second version of KFRC-FM followed KXXX at 99.7 on […]