Bay Area Radio Collage (Image)

Bay Area Radio Stations
Airchecks, Images and Ephemera

Listed alphabetically by call letters.

The San Francisco Bay Area is a diverse region, and it has been the home of a diverse assortment of radio stations of varying musical styles with air personalities to meet any taste.

The Bay Area Radio Museum presents exhibits dating back to the origins of broadcasting in the Bay Area, to its days as a network hub for West Coast programming and for news from the Pacific Theater during World War II, on to the emergence of Top 40 during the 1960s and talk radio in the 1980s and 1990s.

| KABL | KBLX | KCBS | KDIA | KEEN | KEST | KEWB | KFOG | KFMR |
| KFRC | KGEI | KGO | KGO-FM | KIOI | KIQI | KITS | KJBS | KKHI | KKIS |
| KKSF | KLIV | KLOK | KLOK-FM | KLS | KLX | KMEL | KMPX | KNBA | KNBC | KNBR |
| KNEW | KOBY | KOFY | KOIT | KOME | KPEN | KPO | KPSJ | KQW | KRE | KROW | KSAN |
| KSAY | KSFO | KSFR | KSFX | KSJO |KSOL | KTIM | KWBR | KWSS/KFAT | KWUN | KXKX | KYA | KYUU |

 

Return to top of pageKABL  (960 AM; see also KROW)

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKCBS (see also KQW)

The Complete KCBS 74 Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

* — Included on The Bay Area Radio Museum Sports Page.

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Complete KDIA Lucky 13 Airchecks & Jingles Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

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Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKEST (see also KSAN, KSOL)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKEWB  (see also KNEW)

KEWB – Channel 91: The Complete KEWB Airchecks & Jingles Collectio

See also: Jingles Only!KEWB Channel 91 (Logo)

Individual Exhibits:

Bay Area Radio Museum

KFAT (see KWSS)

Bay Area Radio Museum

KFOG

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Big 610 KFRC Logo (1966)KFRC: The Big 610 Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

See also: Jingles Only! Audio presentation

* — Included in The Big 610 Collection.
** — Included in the Dr. Don Rose Collection.

*** — Included on The Bay Area Radio Museum Sports Page.

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Return to top of pageKGEI

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Complete KGO News/Talk 810 Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKIOI (see also KPEN)

The Complete K-101 Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKIQI (see also KSAY, KIOI)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKITS (105.3 FM, San Francisco)

The Complete KITS Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKKHI (see also KSMO, KOBY, KPIX, KYCY)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKKIS (990 AM and 92.1 FM, Pittsburg-Concord)

* — Included in the Bill Plummer Collection.
** — Included in the Dr. Don Rose Collection.

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKKSF (103.7 FM, San Francisco)

The final hour of San Francisco’s KLOK-FM, hosted by Bruce Michaels, leading up to the debut of the new KKSF at midnight with Danny Green.

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Complete KLIV Airchecks Collection

See also: Jingles Only! Audio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKLOK (1170 AM, San Jose)

Audio presentation Broadcast: Don Welsh and Sid Sports on KLOK (November 14, 1974)

The KLOK morning show, hosted by Don Welsh, with sports reports by Len Shapiro as “Sid Sports.”

Print Ad: “The Buddy & Fran Show” with Buddy Clyde and Fran Marion (November 1969)

 

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKLOK-FM (103.7 FM, San Francisco)

The final hour of San Francisco’s KLOK-FM, hosted by Bruce Michaels, leading up to the debut of the new KKSF at midnight with Danny Green.

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKLS (see also KWBR, KDIA)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKLX (see also KEWB, KNEW)

Audio presentation Broadcast: KLX Becomes KEWB, June 8, 1959 (14 minutes)

The final hours of Oakland’s venerable KLX, owned by the Oakland Tribune, as it segues into a new era as Top 40 KEWB. (Included in the Complete KEWB Airchecks Collection.) 

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The Complete KMEL Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKMPX

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKNBA (1190 AM, Vallejo; previously KGYW)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKNBC (see also KPO, KNBR)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKNBR (see also KPO, KNBC)

The Complete KNBR/68: The NBC Years Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

See also: Jingles Only! Audio presentation

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Return to top of pageKNEW (see also KEWB)

The Complete 910 KNEW Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

See also: Jingles Only! Audio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

KOME

The Complete KOME Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKPEN (97.7 FM, Los Altos)

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKPEN (101.3 FM, Atherton/San Francisco; see also KIOI)

* — Included in The KPEN Collection.

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Return to top of pageKPO (see also KNBR)

* — Included in The Ernie Smith Collection.

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Return to top of pageKPSJ

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKQW (see also KCBS)

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKROW (see also KABL)

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Complete KSAN 1450 Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Complete KSAN Jive 95 Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKSAY (see also KIQI)

Bay Area Radio Museum

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KSFO: The Golden West Collection

See also: Jingles Only! Audio presentation

KSFO Historical Timeline

* — Included in The Don Sherwood Collection.
** — Included in KSFO: The Golden West Collection.

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Return to top of pageKSFR (94.9 FM; see also KSAN-FM)

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Bay Area Radio Museum

KSJO

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The Complete KSOL 1450 Airchecks Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

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Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKWBR (See also KLS, KDIA)

Bay Area Radio Museum

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The Complete 94.5 KWSS Collection Text presentationAudio presentation

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKWUN

KWUN 1480 Historical Timeline Text presentationAudio presentation

* — Included in KWUN Historical Timeline.

Bay Area Radio Museum

Return to top of pageKXKX (88.5 FM, San Francisco)

Bay Area Radio Museum

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Assorted KYA Photographs, 1930s through 1950s Photograph or Image Included

From the collection of the Bay Area Radio Museum, a variety of photographs showing KYA studios, transmitter facility and personnel during the early part of the station’s history.

KYA: The Top 40 Years, Part 1 (1950s & 1960s) Text presentationAudio presentation

KYA: The Top 40 Years, Part 2 (1970s & 1980s) Text presentationAudio presentation

See also: Jingles Only! Audio presentation

KYA Historical Timeline1260 KYA Logo (c. 1979)

* — Included in The Ernie Smith Collection.
** — Included in KYA: The Top 40 Years, Part 1.

*** — Included in KYA: The Top 40 Years, Part 2.

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Griff
Griff
10 March 2019 10:44 PM

I grew up in the Bay Area listening to the radio and developing a love of music, news and sports. These came to me via tv, word of mouth and especially radio. Discovering this website and the radio broadcasts from the past is an absolute treat. Thank you to everyone who has contributed.

bobkurtz9
bobkurtz9
24 September 2019 11:29 PM

I was a DJ here as a fill-ins on weekends in the early ’70’s

bobkurtz9
bobkurtz9
Reply to  BARHOF
25 September 2019 12:47 PM

In the early 1970’s I was a fill in weekend DJ at KWUN in Concord, CA

jacobschang
14 June 2022 7:48 PM

Is KYA off the air? I go to 1260AM but its just static

Mary (Koerten) Jackson
Mary (Koerten) Jackson
20 April 2024 11:59 AM

I am searching for a ‘spoof’ ‘blessing’,
That was played in the ‘70’s. I think on KFRC…. Don’t know the title, here are a few lines as I recall….

‘May Vishnu be above you….
UNGOWA watch over you ….
….
“May UMBLEEB of the 7 moons light your way’. ‘

I tried Searching quotes, prayers & blessings, to no avail.

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