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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)

BossRadioDJ

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The press release announcing the first class of inductees into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame went out today. The full list of honorees and the press release are online at:

http://www.barhof.org

You'll see many familiar names on the list, including Dr. Don Rose, Frank Dill, Jim Dunbar, Don Sherwood and Bill King, plus many more from the early days of radio in the Bay Area.

The plan right now is to install plaques honoring the Hall of Famers at the California Historical Radio Society's museum at KRE in Berkeley (http://www.californiahistoricalradio.com/KREproject.html) and to celebrate the Class of 2006 at the upcoming Broadcast Legends lunch in December.

In case you're wondering, it took more than a year to develop the list of nominees and selection criteria, with input from broadcasters, fans and members of the media before choosing this group as the initial class for induction.

Because I was certain all along that we would have to leave certain names off this list (or else it would have run to several hundred names), the second group of honorees will be announced this March.

DJ
 
How lucky am I?
I can say I worked with three of these charter members; Don Rose (as a consultant to a radio station he owned), Frank Dill as his PD at KNBR and Bill King as his Raider producer for 17 years. I also worked, casually at KGO during a time when Jim Dunbar was at KGO and I did an extensive term paper on Don Shewood while I was a broadcasting student at SF State.

Ron Fell
San Francisco
 
Ron Fell said:
How lucky am I?
I can say I worked with three of these charter members; Don Rose (as a consultant to a radio station he owned), Frank Dill as his PD at KNBR and Bill King as his Raider producer for 17 years. I also worked, casually at KGO during a time when Jim Dunbar was at KGO and I did an extensive term paper on Don Shewood while I was a broadcasting student at SF State.

Ron Fell
San Francisco
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Ron,

We've got to talk sometime when you have a moment to spare!

You'll also get extra credit and an A for the day if you still have that Sherwood term paper filed away somewhere...

David Jackson

david.jackson(at)bayarearadio.org
 
James Gabbert is in the Hall Of Fame (CLASS OF 2006) if any one deserved it Gabbert earned this Award!! This Pioneer Broadcaster is the first to introduce FM in the Bay Area KIOI back in 1957 !! He made KIOI a legendary radio station and had some great guys there ,Sam Van Zandt, Steve Jordan and Sean King and many more! He really made TV great in the year 1980 when he was the owner of KTZO TV 20 He had the best programming and the most unique "Top of the Hour " jingle , Weve got what your lookig for, TV 20! and he had shows that no bay area Tv had ,Mister Ed, The Cisco Kid, Perry Mason,Sky King, James Gabbert really made TV fun! Then in 1980 he had the "Time Machine" on his AM station KIQI, this station was Oldies and James Gabbert really was an expert on Oldies !! He had Steve Jordan then on KIQI Steve was from 1260 KYA in the 70 s what a radio voice!! Then Gabbert Had the TV 20 "Dance Party" and he was the EM CEE, It was very much like "American Bandstand" with out the stars! James Gabbert could probably still out do CBS on a radio format!! He s a millionaire, I wonder what ever happened to him? Congradulations To James Gabbert You made radio and TV alot of fun!! Kenny in Concord
 
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James Gabbert is in the Hall Of Fame (CLASS OF 2006) if any one deserved it Gabbert earned this Award!! This Pioneer Broadcaster is the first to introduce FM in the Bay Area KIOI back in 1957 !!
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Mr. Gabbert is a pioneer of FM radio in the Bay Area, but he was nowhere near being the first. By 1957, there were already more than a dozen FM stations here, several dating back to the late 1940s.

In fact, KPEN, the station he started with Gary Gielow (it didn't become KIOI until 1968), actually replaced the Oakland Tribune's KLX-FM on 101.3. KLX-FM had operated from 1948 to 1955.

DJ
 
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