Why not go back to near the beginning? We'll all have "crystal sets" and we'll try and DX KQW from San Jose.
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- Thread starter K.M. Richards
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Can you do San Francisco?
I love to know about Radio Stations back then, But have no idea where to start
I love to know about Radio Stations back then, But have no idea where to start
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You wouldn't ask that if you knew how long it took me to do Los Angeles, where I already knew a lot of the history of the market.
Crap, didn't know
This is my go to site for SFBA radio history. The 'Stations' link in the menu has not only the early history of many stations, but airchecks, pics of station memorabilia. I easily can spend several hours roaming around this site!
Bay Area Radio Station Historical Airchecks and Images | Bay Area
Bay Area Radio Stations Airchecks, Images and Ephemera Listed alphabetically by call letters. The San
bayarearadio.org
Miscellaneous results found in Google:
https://www.440int.com/sfran.html
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-TV-Experimenter/Radio-TV-Experimenter-1966-04-05.pdf (see printed page 108 / PDF page 102)
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-TV-Experimenter/Radio-TV-Experimenter-1968-04-05.pdf (see printed page 118 / PDF page 112)
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OT19490620.1.14 (1949; see top center for FM and top left for AM; schedules given for all AM/FM stations)
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OT19430701.1.34 (1943; top left for AM; schedules included)
https://philcoradio.com/library/wp-...12-1940-Radio-Personalities-and-Radio-Log.pdf (1940; PDF pages 8-11 are nationwide all-timezones AM and shortwave station lists, with San Francisco entries)
https://www.otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Radio%20Digest/RadioDigest3203.pdf (large national station list from 1931-1932; just Ctrl-F for San Francisco)
https://www.oldradio.com/archives/stations/sf/fotoarch.htm (lots of photos)
Best way to find results like these is to already know a handful of callsigns from the era you're interested in. Search Google for all of them at the same time, in the same query, with each callsign "quoted" and with verbatim search mode enabled. If you do that, you'll get results consisting almost purely of station lists of various kinds. The above links, for example, were found via these two searches:
https://www.google.com/search?q="KFRC"+"KJBS"+"KGO"+"KEEN"+"KLX"&tbs=li:1
and
https://www.google.com/search?q="KMPX"+"KNBA"+"KOIT"+"KPEN"+"KROW"&tbs=li:1
Oh my! I think it's a lot easier to go to this one excellent history site. You're really overthinking this.
Bay Area Radio Station Historical Airchecks and Images | Bay Area
Bay Area Radio Stations Airchecks, Images and Ephemera Listed alphabetically by call letters. The San
bayarearadio.org
Hey while we’re at it, let’s turn off all streaming and all of the TV stations and go back to dramas and comedy shows on the Standard Band. ( that’s what they called AM, when FM was new). We could also get rid of smart phones and go back to operated assisted telephone calls.
The easiest way is to go to RADIO LOG BOOKS - Radio station logbooks and listings from 1923 to 2022.
There, by year, you will find station lists from multiple sources going back to the 1920's.
Or look for the Broadcasting Yearbook issues from 1935 onward with lots of details on each station.
There, by year, you will find station lists from multiple sources going back to the 1920's.
Or look for the Broadcasting Yearbook issues from 1935 onward with lots of details on each station.
BROADCASTING YEARBOOK - Station and industry directory 1935-2010
"Broadcasting Yearbook" was a directory of radio and television stations and related information first published in 1935 by the editors of "Broadcasting Magazine". It includes listings of all stations, suppliers, FCC rules, group ownership, stations sales and other industry statistics. The last...
www.worldradiohistory.com
I was showing a convenient method of finding undiscovered sources for this kind of information so people could research beyond known information clearinghouses like bayarearadio.org and David's sites. But yes, I agree they are both excellent sources.Oh my! I think it's a lot easier to go to this one excellent history site. You're really overthinking this.
Bay Area Radio Station Historical Airchecks and Images | Bay Area
Bay Area Radio Stations Airchecks, Images and Ephemera Listed alphabetically by call letters. The San