Broadcasting

Broadcasting

CHRS Radio Day

A few faces from the California Historical Radio Society’s annual Radio Day by the Bay.

Dick Biondi

Dick is one of the immortals of rock and roll radio broadcasting.  I listened to him on WLS 890 in Chicago in the early 1960s as WLS had one of the strongest signals on the AM dial at night in Casper. When I visited southern California in the mid 1960s I again heard Dick on … Read more

KCBS-FM

From September 1972 until July 1977, I was one of the three engineers producing and maintaining the equipment at KCBS-FM in San Francisco. During that time, the station used the IGM 770 automation system to produce the on-the air programming.  A DEC PDP8-E 12-bit computer was used to control the programming as well as to … Read more