Tag: Legendary Station

Fogheads To Unite For Legendary KFOG

KFOG Quality Rock Sticker (Image)

It will be a Foghead Family Reunion on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, as the Broadcast Legends celebrate KFOG (104.5 FM), the recipient of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame‘s Legendary Station Award for 2019.

The luncheon will take place at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco, and will include a roundtable discussion starring a bevy of KFOG legends, with Ben Fong-Torres serving as moderator.

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The KFOG Foghead Family Reunion

KFOG Quality Rock Sticker (Image)

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  • The 2019 KFOG Family Reunion
     12 June 2019
     11:30 AM - 2:30 PM

The Broadcast Legends present The KFOG Foghead Family Reunion on Wednesday, June 12, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Join us for lunch as we celebrate the people who helped make KFOG the “Home of Quality Rock & Roll” and the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame’s 2019 Legendary Station Award

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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame: The Class of 2018

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  • BARHOF Class of 2018 Celebration
     13 October 2018
     11:30 AM - 2:30 PM

The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018 Celebration will be held on Saturday, October 13, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. This year’s inductees, as well as the Sherwood Award winners and the 2018 Legendary Station recipient, were announced on July 21 at the Radio Day By The Bay

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Broadcast Legends Summer 2017 Luncheon

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  • Broadcast Legends Summer Luncheon
     20 June 2017
     11:30 AM - 2:30 PM

San Jose’s venerable KLIV (1590 AM) has been honored with the 2017 Legendary Station Award by the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame, in recognition of its seven decades of service to listeners in the South Bay Area. Join the Broadcast Legends on Tuesday, June 20, at the Basque Cultural Center in South

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Legends Honor San Jose’s KLIV

KLIV Rock 16 Logo (Circa 1980)
Beach Boys KLIV Concert Photo

The Beach Boys perform at a 1964 concert promoted by San Jose’s KLIV

San Jose’s venerable KLIV (1590 AM) has been honored with the 2017 Legendary Station Award by the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame, in recognition of its seven decades of service to listeners in the South Bay Area, and will be celebrated at a special Broadcast Legends luncheon on Tuesday, June 20, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco.

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Founded in late 1946 as KSJO, the station began its life as a thousand-watt, daytime-only outlet located in an orchard at the corner of Story Road and Lucretia Avenue in still-rural San Jose, then watched as the city grew up around it over the years.

In 1960, the station’s owners – seeing no real future in FM radio – sold off KSJO’s FM sister and changed the AM station’s call letters to KLIV, while continuing to broadcast from its home on Story Road.

During the 1960s, KLIV established itself as one of the most popular stations in the region, playing popular Top 40 music aimed at the growing number of baby boomers whose parents began settling in the area, catering to the surfer boys and girls who headed over the hill to Santa Cruz every summer weekend, and helping inspire dozens of garage bands across the South Bay.

Photo: Bob Kieve (KLIV)

KLIV’s Bob Kieve

Fifty years ago, in July 1967, Robert S. Kieve and a partner purchased KLIV for $974,000; to this day, Mr. Kieve continues to operate KLIV under the Empire Broadcasting banner as one of the dwindling few independent major-market radio station owners in the United States. He was inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame (BARHOF) in 2007, and recently celebrated his 95th birthday with the station’s alumni and current staff.

Among the popular voices that have graced KLIV’s airwaves over the years are John McLeod (BARHOF 2010), Mikel Hunter Herrington (2008), Dave Sholin (2008), Bob Ray, Ross McGowan, George Sampson, John Lester, John Bettencourt, Larry Mitchell, Jack Hayes, Peter Boam and Mac McGregor.

KLIV joins previous Legendary Station honorees KCBS, KGO, KSFO, KNBR, KFRC, KSAN, KPEN and KYA.

The Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame, founded in 2005, is a program of the California Historical Radio Society (CHRS), and is dedicated to preserving and honoring the history of radio broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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