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 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 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 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 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 […]
The Bay Area’s first commercial FM station, KRCC went on the air on February 2, 1947. The station’s studio and transmitter sat atop Nicholl Knob, a high point in what’s now known as the Miller-Knox […]
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