LIVE! at KRE  

SAVE THE DATE – July 21st, 10 AM it’s “Live! at KRE – RADIO DAY BY THE BAY.” A big day of radio fun. Our MC will be Stan Bunger – KCBS Morning News Anchor & BARHOF Class of 2010. Music by The Tamsen Donner Blues Band. “Fibber McGee & Molly” by the Broadcast Legends. Book signings and talks by Mike Adams & John Schneider. Stay tuned for more details. Big Auction.

LIVE! at KRE

CHRS Journal  

The Journal of the California Historical Radio Society is just off the press. This is the Spring-Summer 2012 issue, proudly displayed by Editor Richard Watts. If you are a paid member, look for it soon in your mailbox. If not, join today and experience the history of radio devices, radio personalities, radio stations, event and organization news and more.

CHRS Journal

Hall of Fame  

CHRS is the home of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, with photographs and stories of the men and women honored by BARHOF since its inception in 2006. From Doc Herrold to Dr. Don Rose, you’ll find the greatest voices in local radio history on display in our gallery. We also present a yearly “Herrold Award.”

Hall of Fame

CHRS Authors  

New books have just been published by two of our CHRS History Fellows. Lee de Forest, King of Radio, Television, and Film, 2012, Springer Science, written by Mike Adams, and Bay Area Radio, 2012, Arcadia, written by John Schneider, are available in the CHRS Museum Store, or from Amazon. You can pick up both of these books the next time you visit KRE.

CHRS Authors

W6CF – The Maxwell Station  

CHRS is always “on the air” with the W6CF beacon at 28.2045 MHz. From the estate of well-known Silicon Valley ham operator Jim Maxwell, his station W6CF was turned over the California Historical Radio Society, and FCC-licensed to our museum. We also have the Maxwell Electronic Reference Library.  The station trustee is John Staples, W6BM.

W6CF – The Maxwell Station

KRE Museum  

At KRE we have on display an extensive collection of radio-related technology history as well as broadcast and technical archives. We have early wireless and battery radios, broadcast sets, early phonographs, classic high fidelity, microphones, tubes. It is all built around a working radio station.

KRE Museum

About CHRS

  • The California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) is a non-profit corporation founded in 1974 to promote the restoration and preservation of early radio and broadcasting. We are located in Berkeley at the historic KRE radio station building.

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About BARM / BARHOF

  • The Bay Area Radio Museum (BARM) is an online collection of audio recordings, documents and photographic images pertaining to the history and development of radio broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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