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At 12:01 a.m. on December 13, 1983, King Broadcasting officially owned KSFO and flipped the station to pop standards, a tribute to KSFO's popular format from those decades, aimed at listeners aged 35 to 54. [36] King Broadcasting brought back former KSFO personality Al "Jazzbo" Collins from WNEW in New York City to host a late night jazz show.
King Broadcasting Company is an American former media conglomerate founded in 1946 by Dorothy Bullitt. The company was owned by the Bullitt family until it was sold to the Providence Journal Company in 1991; it is currently a subsidiary of Tegna as the licensee for its remaining stations.
KSFO (810 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to San Francisco, California, featuring a conservative talk radio format. Owned by Cumulus Media , KSFO's studios are on Battery Street in the SoMa portion of San Francisco's Financial District .
After spending three years broadcasting Fresno State sports on KMJ, Simmons came to San Francisco in 1957 as the sports director at KSFO. That year, he was the color commentator for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League , teaming with play-by-play announcer Bob Fouts , the father of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan ...
Don Sherwood (September 7, 1925 – November 6, 1983) was an American radio personality. He was a San Francisco, California, disc jockey during the 1950s and 1960s. Billed as "The World's Greatest Disc Jockey," Sherwood spent most of his career hosting a 6-9 a.m. weekday program on KSFO in San Francisco (560 kHz, 5000 watts), which was then owned by the singing cowboy actor Gene Autry.
For most Giants radio broadcasts on KNBR, Jon Miller and Dave Flemming take turns calling play-by-play (usually Miller will call innings 1-2, 5-6, 8-9, and Flemming will call innings 3-4, and 7).
Emmis Broadcasting purchases CHR-formatted WLOL in Minneapolis, Minnesota; WCCO-FM in Minneapolis, Minnesota flips from adult contemporary to CHR, then back again (as WLTE) later that year. December 12 – After 25 years of ownership, Gene Autry sells KSFO 560 AM to King Radio Broadcasting which owned KYA 1260 AM and 93.3 FM.
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt (February 5, 1892 – June 27, 1989) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. A radio and television pioneer, she founded King Broadcasting Company, a major owner of broadcast stations in Seattle, Washington.