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Franklin Mieuli passed away tonight
- Thread starter lenhockey
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Missed the first three minutes of the 10 O'clock News and didn't hear the news until this morning...
As a sports fan and a student of All Things San Francisco, I'll never forget the first time I met Mr. Mieuli: he was wearing his "uniform," with his trademark deerstalker cap, and he stuck his hand out and said, "Hi! I'm Franklin Mieuli."
It took all my power to keep from responding "No sh!t..."
An amazing man, as anyone who has spent any measure of time in his presence will attest. Along with owning KHIP (106.9 FM), one of the pioneering FM stations in the Bay Area (later known as KMPX, KEAR, and now KFRC-FM), he was first and foremost an innovator, and a man who simply got things done.
His list of accomplishments in sports, broadcasting and life are endless (including election to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2007), but the one thing I appreciate most as a sports fan is that he had the foresight to hire Bill King as the "third man" on radio (teamed with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons) with the Giants in 1958, and then hired Bill as lead vocalist on Warriors radio and TV when he bought the team and moved it west in 1962. (Talk about "two of a kind.")
Marcus Thompson's story about Franklin in the Trib/CocoTimes/Daily Review, etc., ran top-of-the-fold in this morning's sports section:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_14959341
As a sports fan and a student of All Things San Francisco, I'll never forget the first time I met Mr. Mieuli: he was wearing his "uniform," with his trademark deerstalker cap, and he stuck his hand out and said, "Hi! I'm Franklin Mieuli."
It took all my power to keep from responding "No sh!t..."
An amazing man, as anyone who has spent any measure of time in his presence will attest. Along with owning KHIP (106.9 FM), one of the pioneering FM stations in the Bay Area (later known as KMPX, KEAR, and now KFRC-FM), he was first and foremost an innovator, and a man who simply got things done.
His list of accomplishments in sports, broadcasting and life are endless (including election to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2007), but the one thing I appreciate most as a sports fan is that he had the foresight to hire Bill King as the "third man" on radio (teamed with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons) with the Giants in 1958, and then hired Bill as lead vocalist on Warriors radio and TV when he bought the team and moved it west in 1962. (Talk about "two of a kind.")
Marcus Thompson's story about Franklin in the Trib/CocoTimes/Daily Review, etc., ran top-of-the-fold in this morning's sports section:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_14959341
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