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KCBS: 100th Anniversary Broadcast

BossRadioDJ

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I had the pleasure of spending most of the day in San Jose at Fairmont Plaza, watching as Stan Bunger, Rebecca Corral and the crew from KCBS originated their noon newscast from nearly the same spot the station was born at.

I also got to spend a significant amount of time there with Jim True and his wife. Jim was there to represent his grandfather, Doc Herrold, and we presented Jim with a plaque marking Doc's induction into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.

CBS5 covered the event (yes, it took place just downstairs from their Southbay Bureau) and has video at:

http://cbs5.com/local/kcbs.radio.centennial.2.1041395.html

Note that the graphics at the tail end of the piece are flipped: the fellow identified as Mike Colgan is Matt Bigler, while the person shown as Matt Bigler is actually Mike Colgan. If you know them, you realize that they get confused for each other often.

The KCBS centennial page, with photos and audio, is located at:

http://www.kcbs.com/pages/3504672.php
 
Ultimajock said:
...you'd think that CBS would have someone on their staff who would know how to correctly spell Bruno Richard Hauptmann's name (it wasn't "Haltmon," guys)...
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Those idiots! And they call themselves a radio station. It's shameful! Disgraceful!

...And yet you didn't mention the error that preceded it:

Bay Area native, Shirley Temple, is a huge box-office draw...
 
What's sad for media historians like me is how many stations have thrown out their archives or completely forgotten their history.
 
As I understand it, the station first signed on in 1909 and began using the calls "SJN" in 1913. It retained those calls until 1921 when it became KQW in 1921 and became KCBS in 1949.
 
klutch00 said:
As I understand it, the station first signed on in 1909 and began using the calls "SJN" in 1913. It retained those calls until 1921 when it became KQW in 1921 and became KCBS in 1949.
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Interesting. Too bad there's not a local radio museum around here collecting arcane bits of broadcasting history such as that...
 
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