California Historical Radio Society 2017
The CHRS annual Radio Day by the Bay on July 22 was a great day to catch up with old friends.
Radio
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