KATT 990 AM Pittsburg, CA
KATT succeeded KECC in 1957 after the purchase of the station by the Contra Costa Broadcasting Corporation, a group led by bandleader Les Malloy. Malloy, who had recently sold San Mateo station KVSM, announced that […]
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KECC 990 AM Pittsburg, CA
The March 18, 1949 Federal Communications Commission decision to grant a license to the Pittsburg Broadcasting Company gave eastern Contra Costa County its first radio station. The owners chose the call letters KECC as a […]
KFWM 930 AM Oakland, CA
KFWM went on the air on October 15, 1925. The station was owned by the Oakland Educational Society, which had a contractual relationship with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (later known as the […]
KABL-FM 98.1 FM San Francisco, CA
KABL-FM replaced KAFE at 98.1 on the dial after Gordon McLendon’s 1965 acquisition of the station. For most of the next quarter-century, the station mirrored the programing of KABL, an earlier McLendon acquisition. By the […]
KPNI 101.7 FM Palo Alto, CA
KPNI represents one of several attempts by Bay Area newspaper publishers to jump into FM broadcasting, only to beat a hasty retreat. The 770-watt Class A station was owned by Peninsula Newspapers, Inc., the publisher […]
KONG 104.9 FM Alameda, CA
KONG was among a number of early Bay Area FM stations owned by a local newspaper. In this case the licensees were Abraham and Sara Kofman, the owners of the Alameda Times-Star. Hal Altman, who’d […]