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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2019

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BARHOF 2019
21 September 2019
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

It’s time to celebrate the latest group of inductees into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, along with this year’s recipients of the Sherwood Awards, honoring the best in Bay Area radio! The BARHOF 2019 luncheon will take place on Saturday, September 21, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Doors open

10 February 2019

Lone Ranger Rides Again At Legends Lunch!

Spring is in the air, and the Mighty Legends Old Time Radio Players will be on the air at our next luncheon on Tuesday, March 26, at the elegant Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco.

In addition to hanging out and catching up with your favorite friends and colleagues from Bay Area radio and television, the Legends radio troupe will present a live re-creation of an episode of “The Lone Ranger.”

Featured in the cast of “The Lone Ranger” will be Dave Parker, who performed on the original radio program, which debuted on Detroit’s WXYZ back in January 1933.

5 February 2018

Something Happening Here: The Spring Legends Lunch

Dan Ethen in the AFVN Mobile Unit (Photo)

It was a year of protests and violence in every corner of the world, and of political battles and campus unrest — a year marred by the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, and the year that Richard M. Nixon was elected to serve as our 37th president.

The year was 1968, and nearly 550,000 American soldiers were serving in Vietnam.

John Mack Flanagan, with a 45 on his hip and a portable tape recorder in his hand

Not all of that half-million-strong force was there “in country” for armed combat, however. A small group performed a different military duty: providing entertainment on radio and television for their brothers and sisters in uniform.

Among those that served in Vietnam were three men with strong Bay Area media connections — John Mack Flanagan (BARHOF 2017), Dan Ethen (BARHOF 2017), and Michael Bennett.

At the next Broadcast Legends quarterly luncheon, these three will be on hand to tell their stories.

The event, entitled “Something Happening Here: Vietnam On The Air,” takes place on Thursday, March 15, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco, beginning at 11:30 AM.

Broadcast Legends 2017 Holiday Luncheon

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Broadcast Legends Holiday Luncheon
15 December 2017
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

You’re invited to mix and mingle with the jingling Legends as we celebrate at our annual Holiday Bash at the Basque! This year’s festive frolic will take place on Friday, December 15, at the fabulous Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco from 11 AM until 2 PM, and the food, refreshments and entertainment are

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

Radio News: Past, Present and Future

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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

23 February 2017

Radio News: Past, Present and Future

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.

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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.

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9 February 2016

A Legends Lunch For All The Radio Boys and Girls!

Radio Girls Artwork (Detail)

Join the Broadcast Legends for lunch on Friday, March 18, at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco for a fascinating discussion about radio in its very earliest days — nearly a century ago!

Radio Boys and Girls book cover (Mike Adams) Our guest speaker will be Mike Adams, Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University, member of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame (Class of 2011) and author of several essential volumes on broadcasting history, including “The Radio Boys and Girls: Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers, 1890-1945,” which will provide the basis for our program.

“Radio in 1922: What the Boys and Girls Knew,” looks at a single year and compares the rise in broadcasting, and what Americans were being told about its significance, with the information young readers were getting in their Radio Boys and Radio Girls series books. The year 1922 was an important one in the transition from the dots and dashes of the wireless hobby to the radio as a source of entertainment and information.

The Broadcast Legends
Spring Quarterly Luncheon:
Mike Adams and Radio In 1922

Friday, March 18, 2016
11 AM – Reception (No Host Bar)
Noon – Luncheon
1 PM – Feature Program

Basque Cultural Center
599 Railroad Avenue
South San Francisco

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MARK YOUR SCHEDULE: Thursday, March 16 Basque Cultural Center South San Francisco 11:30 AM – 2 PM

The Broadcast Legends Spring Quarterly Luncheon: Mike Adams and Radio In 1922

MARK YOUR SCHEDULE:
Thursday, March 16
Basque Cultural Center
South San Francisco
11:30 AM – 2 PM

The Broadcast Legends
Spring Quarterly Luncheon:
Mike Adams and Radio In 1922