{"id":26151,"date":"2019-08-01T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26151"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:02:29","slug":"bay-area-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bay-area-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bayradio.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>BAY AREA RADIO<\/h2>\n<p>Book by John Schneider, Arcadia Publishing<\/p>\n<p>Review by Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>In its early days, radio was as important as the Internet today. With no TV, everyone relied on it for news, entertainment, exercise &amp; shopping. KFRC had &#8220;Tonight&#8217;s Best Buys,&#8221; which ran on 20 West Coast stations. &#8220;Your bargains and the things you want to sell were broadcast free,&#8221; Schneider writes.<\/p>\n<p>Most people don&#8217;t know that the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Bay Area was a key national radio broadcasting center during the first several decades of commercial radio.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose had the world&#8217;s first broadcasting station in the Garden City Bank Building (1909). Charles Herrold conceived the idea of broadcasting to the public and founded a voice radio station\u2014using the call sign FN\u2014that played weekly phonograph concerts. It would evolve into KQW (1921), then KCBS (the Bay Area&#8217;s all-news radio station, now located in San Francisco).<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer Craig MacDonald grew up in the Bay Area and was a good friend of Chet Casselman, legendary news director of KSFO. He once wrote popular comedy entertainment scripts for Chet, who broadcast them. \u00a0Read his review of the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/john-schneider.html\">Bay Area Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAY AREA RADIO Book by John Schneider, Arcadia Publishing Review by Craig MacDonald In its early days, radio was as important as the Internet today. With no TV, everyone relied on it for news, entertainment, exercise &amp; shopping. KFRC had &#8220;Tonight&#8217;s Best Buys,&#8221; which ran on 20 West Coast stations. &#8220;Your bargains and the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26152,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26151\/revisions\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}