The Broadcast Legends are proud to announce that our annual Holiday Luncheon and Extravaganza is all set for the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco on Friday, December 13, 2024.
You won’t want to miss this one – there will never be another like it!
In the musical spotlight, Ben Fong-Torres and friends return with their usual laugh-filled schtick and array of songs both old and new.
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Classical KDFC : 2024 Legendary Station
6 June 2024
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Classical KDFC has been named the 2024 Legendary Station by the Bay Area Radio Museum & Hall of Fame. KDFC signed on in 1948 and has held its classical music format for 75 years. We’re celebrating this historic and remarkable achievement by throwing a luncheon celebration in association with the Broadcast Legends on Thursday, June
To commemorate Women’s History Month, the Broadcast Legends invite you to join us as we honor “Ten Legendary Women in Radio and TV Broadcasting.” These women exemplify this year’s theme of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Carolyn Tyler
Dana King
Freska Griarte
Jessica Aguirre
Joanne Greene
Holly Quan
Miranda Wilson
Roberta Gonzales
Rosie Allen
Claudine Wong
Rebecca Corral
Sue Hall
Our panelists include Dana King, Rebecca Corral, Claudine Wong, Joanne Greene, Carolyn Tyler, Miranda Wilson, Roberta Gonzales, Holly Quan, Freska Griarte, and Jessica Aguirre.
They will share stories and take questions from our emcees, Sue Hall and Rosie Allen.
Join us on Wednesday, March 13, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco as these ten women share personal stories about their careers and some of the experiences that helped blaze their trail.
Doors open at 11:30 AM for our regular mix-and-mingle and no-host bar, followed by lunch at noon. Our program follows at 1 PM.
After more than a year without a live event, the Broadcast Legends look forward to welcoming you to our Fall 2021 luncheon, celebrating the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021.
The BARHOF 2021 event will take place at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco, beginning at 11:30 AM on Friday, September 24. Click here for reservations.
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Legends Summer 2018 Luncheon
19 June 2018
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
You know their faces and voices. You’ve seen the stories that they’ve reported. At the next Broadcast Legends luncheon, you’ll hear the stories behind the stories, as told by several of the finest reporters in Bay Area television history. Belva Davis, Rita Williams, Manny Ramos and Tom Vacar will take to the Legends stage at
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Legends Spring 2018 Luncheon
15 March 2018
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Join the Broadcast Legends on Thursday, March 15, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco as we look back on a time of turmoil at home and around the world. We’ll revisit the year 1968 with three Bay Area
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.
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.
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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Broadcast Legends Spring 2017 Luncheon
16 March 2017
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Join the Broadcast Legends as we celebrate Spring with a very special program — Radio News: Past, Present and Future — on Thursday, March 16, at the elegant Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Looking back at (and forward to) the way radio news was (and is) gathered, written and reported will be an
MARK YOUR SCHEDULE:
Thursday, March 16
Basque Cultural Center
South San Francisco
11:30 AM – 2 PM
Over the years, the Broadcast Legends have presented all sorts of programs at our quarterly meetings — everything from old-time radio re-creations to kids TV.
One thing we’ve never done, till now, is take a look at Bay Area radio as it was in the 1960s, as it is now, and what it might look like in the future.
Remember what things were like in, say, 1967? What you could and couldn’t say … What sort of equipment we used … What our newscasts were like fifty years ago, in the time before satellites.
How do things stand now? What’s been the effect of consolidation on news people and jocks and the listeners? And what might we see in the future? More news or less? Fewer owners? What about sports coverage? What about the business side? Where will the money be coming from, and who will do the selling?
We have a great panel lined up, which is scheduled to include Stan Bunger (Morning Anchor, KCBS); Stan Burford (Traffic Man, KGO); John Catchings (KFRC); Gil Haar (KYUU, KFRC); Jack Swanson (KGO, KCBS); and Peter Cleaveland (KGO), who will also act as the moderator.
This panel of folks has got years and years in the Bay Area radio. They have seen it all and helped to create much of it.
Join us and add your memories to the discussion on Thursday, March 16, 2017, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Social time begins at 11:30 AM, followed by lunch at noon, and our program at about 1 PM.