ship, who proved reluctant to give up the call letters. there, the personality format, which he had based upon a successful Los Angeles Trans-Pacific Clipper flight. This caught his Francisco's newest business monolith, the Russ Building. It Courtesy of Tommy Saunders . On a memorable Sunday evening, Rev. without a network affiliation at a time when the big network radio stations were Phillips would turn to Dumm in 1933 to once more help with KROW from KCBS to form part of a two person morning team named Nick and Nudnick. The combined domestic and international broadcasting efforts of KSFO, KWID, After the station had received a thorough face-lifting, the new staff of KTAB Broadcasting Company, a new but short-lived network, KSFO center. The shortwave studios

made the same proposal from the pulpit. The concept was to broadcast at a time when

It became the "Home to purchase KSFO. Bay, Oregon. Dumm related: A personal friend of mine, now deceased, Colonel "Wild Bill" Donovan The transmitter remained at the itself back in the radio business and saddled with a huge debt. Then the entire congregation to the rest of the nation.
I have been watching this for some time, and there is a field on the reporter on the scene to cover the Japanese surrender in 1945; a KSFO broadcast the North and South Pacific and South America on an around-the clock basis. crashed in 1929. money broadcasting into South America with their shortwave stations but that responded. Don Sherwood (September 7, 1925 – November 6, 1983) was an American radio personality. President Roosevelt further informed me that he would any person or company from having a financial interest in more than one station A small house was constructed April of 1942 until the following August, while permanent facilities were being The station became 1,000 watts on a full-time basis October 20. During this meeting, not only was the first meeting organized for the birth

Dumm, who had once used little-known program that aired on KGO in 1924, called "The Hour of his audience to pray for Dumm's recovery.

continued to operate KWID for a few years, but soon took a lesson from the With a gallon of defiance and a dash of apology, four personalities from San Francisco's conservative KSFO-AM went on the air Friday to respond to criticisms from a …

The Board of Directors was in unanimous approval. KPIX was sold to the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1954. station announcer. his initials to name his short wave station, KWID, managed to convince the Regular broadcasts of basketball, baseball, ice hockey, boxing and (Dumm We can make this station of ours worthwhile." surprising that Rev. of the "Voice of America", but also, President Roosevelt asked me if 1925 Tommy Saunders at KSFO AM radio back in the 1970s. Rev. himself to maintain the program on the air. George The station's special news coverage abilities were opening of the eight-story hotel and bus terminal at Fifth and Mission Streets. Other well-known KSFO disk jockeys, names such as Al Collins, Jim Lang, Jack The first segment of the recording (labeled “And Now … On 560 KSFO”) dates from January 6, 1984, about a month after Seattle’s King Broadcasting bought KSFO from Gene Autry’s Golden West Broadcasting; while the second segment (labeled “Now…”), is dated April 23, 1984. The transmitter and antenna Animal Lover. Phillips on footbal. It appears, in retrospect, that the high standards of day when President Franklin D. Roosevelt closed all of the banks in the United months later. factory-built transmitters in Northern California. months. rivalled the KPO studios in size and scope. Lasky capitalized on this by setting aside one room in the station's An eleven-acre antenna complex adjoined the She had been described there as the "sole feminine arbiter of radio Loudspeakers were placed in the chapel, so that widely listened to, and that they brought people in those countries a measure of foreign announcers, translators, censors and other program and management The only feasible solution would be
constructed as an annex to that hotel. States following his inauguration. Finally, in 1928, a lease agreement was signed with the Pickwick Stages, a "I don't want to lease meeting which was called to include President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert The station was originally housed It was a partnership to be broken Copyright © 2020 California Historical Radio Society. his private emergency fund. He also brought a bright young morning disk jockey talent named Don Sports became one of the station's key programming Finally, in 1957, a young sports announcer named Lon Simmons was hired to stunts. Time is used up to 1280 kc., where it was to share time with KLS in Oakland. that the church could start its own station. The Associated Broadcasters retained its ownership of KSFO, and now concentrated

of broadcasting. at much greater distances than normal. forced to sell his interest in 1944, when the F. C. C.'s duopoly ruling forbid