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If you've never to CHRs it's worth the trip!
I went a few years ago and it's a whole lotta fun. The California Radio Historical Society Museum is worth attending anytime, but the added attractions for Radio Day make it really special.
I'd be there this year, but we're in Georgia visiting the grandkids this weekend.
If you're in Northern California and have always wanted to see the KFRC Mobile Studio (the Sturgeon), it will be there this year:
King and Simmons did A's games on both stations(and on KNEW in between) for 15 years. The KSFO era lasted from '81-92.
Getting back on topic: did anyone here go to this event?
@BossRadioDJ —-put this board on your planning calendar for future events—-ideally two weeks out.
In all the years I lived in Oakland, I never once managed to make it. I am glad to see that it’s in a more accessible location now. Aquatic Park in Berkeley can be very hard to get to, due to its proximity to 80/580 and University Avenue. Alameda’s a little more out of the way but not that hard to get to.
I didn't make it for this event either, but I have visited. I can pretty much safely say that for most of the radio freaks who frequent this site it will be one of the most memorable days of your life. Make plans and do it if you can. If you have the cycles to volunteer there, all the better.
Dave B.
Dave B.
Since @BossRadioDJ has been scarce around these parts lately, I'll jump in with the plug for the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame luncheon Saturday, October 19th at the Basque Cultural Center in San Francisco. I've already bought my ticket:
bayarearadio.org
Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame's Class of 2024 Announced
JULY 20, 2024 – The board of directors of the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame is proud to announce t
bayarearadio.org
And...I have just confirmed with Chris Sharpe that the KFRC mobile studio, The Sturgeon, will be at the luncheon on October 19th. And so will Marvelous Mark McKay.
Speaking of which and whom, here's video from the fall of 1983, as KFRC was about to send the Sturgeon down to KHJ in Los Angeles (they sent it back three years later).
Dr. Don Rose, Dave Sholin, Sue Hall and Mark, live from the toll plaza at the San Mateo Bridge:
Speaking of which and whom, here's video from the fall of 1983, as KFRC was about to send the Sturgeon down to KHJ in Los Angeles (they sent it back three years later).
Dr. Don Rose, Dave Sholin, Sue Hall and Mark, live from the toll plaza at the San Mateo Bridge:
A small-but-significant correction to Mr. Hagerty: the Basque Cultural Center is not in San Francisco, it's in South San Francisco, a separate city half a dozen-or-so miles south of the SF/Daly City border and a few miles north of SFO airport. If you try to find it in SF you're likely to miss the dinner.Since @BossRadioDJ has been scarce around these parts lately, I'll jump in with the plug for the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame luncheon Saturday, October 19th at the Basque Cultural Center in San Francisco. I've already bought my ticket:
Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame's Class of 2024 Announced
JULY 20, 2024 – The board of directors of the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame is proud to announce t
Brain cramp. And thanks for that correction. I'm very familiar with the Basque as both the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame lunches and Western Automotive Journalist dinners are held there.
I loved listening to Mark when he was on KCMO-FM, he's great!
Sue Hall was there, too!
In the 1990s, Mark was still in Kansas City, at KFKF until 2000.
When was Sue Hall there?
1985, around the time it became KBKC.
She returned to the Bay Area at some point afterwards; she was on KFRC-FM when the 2008 KCBS simulcast started.
Are we sure this is the same Sue Hall? This Ben Fong-Torres piece from 2010 says it was KMEL 1984-88, K-101 1988-90, then back to KFRC (Ben got this wrong, it couldn't have been before '91 when 99.7 became KFRC-FM) to 2006 when the flip to Movin' happened. Then two years at the Wolf, back to KFRC for its rebirth on 106.9 and out along with everyone else when it began the simulcast of KCBS.
Her bio says essentially the same thing and I can't find anything anywhere online that puts her in KC or anywhere outside Northern California.
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