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132-485: A middle of the road music format mixing in adult standards with soft rock cuts by the early 1960s artists with Ron Fell as program director and LaVerne Drake as music director (1971-early 1975). Heber Smith was the general manager and Bill Dwyer was sales manager. The station continued to be a news-intensive format with personalities in the foreground and music in the background. Personalities included Frank Dill, Mike Cleary, Les Williams, Dave Niles, and Jack Hayes. KNBR
198-664: A 100-watt station owned by the Hale Brothers Department Store . In 1925, the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper bought half-interest in the operation. It originally was located in the department store at 901 Market between 5th and 6th. It had a horizontal wire antenna on the roof that was so efficient, the station had listeners all over the Pacific Coast. In 1927, KPO became an affiliate of NBC . A year earlier, NBC started
264-492: A dish for King Carlos I of Portugal , called La Mousse Faisan Lucullus , a mousse of Bavarian pheasant 's breast and woodcock flavored with truffles , with a sauce of cognac , Madeira and champagne . The dish was so expensive, and the King ate it so frequently, that he bankrupted Portugal twice. King Carlos was assassinated in 1908 followed by the downfall of Portuguese monarchy in 1910. Hirtzler then moved to New York, became
330-677: A game. Marty Lurie continues to host the Giants pre-game show on weekends. Tim Roye was the radio play-by-play announcer for the Golden State Warriors , and was occasionally joined by Jim Barnett on non-televised games as Barnett serves as an analyst for TV broadcasts. On August 25, 2016, the Warriors announced they have ended their partnership with KNBR and signed with KGMZ-FM . The partnership with KNBR lasted 40 years, including 32 consecutive years. The station has long been
396-917: A home for arena and indoor football. A vast array of announcers participated in San Jose SaberCats broadcasts, including Tim Roye , Bob Fitzgerald , Ray Woodson , Keena Turner , George Atkinson , and Troy Clardy . In 2020, KNBR via KTCT began to broadcast games of the Bay Area Panthers . Scott Reiss is the voice of the Panthers. In 2005 , KNBR became the official radio home of the San Francisco 49ers . All games are also heard on sister station KSAN ; some AM broadcasts may be moved to KTCT due to conflicts with Giants games. 49ers games were broadcast by Joe Starkey and Gary Plummer for four seasons until Starkey's retirement following
462-835: A hung jury, but in his third trial in March–April 1922, the jury found him not guilty after only five minutes of deliberations. Arbuckle was free, but his career was ruined. His films were withdrawn by Will H. Hays , the President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , and what became known as the Hays Office began the systematic censorship of American motion pictures. The 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island , in San Francisco Bay, attracted many celebrities to San Francisco and to
528-400: A personal appearance at a movie theater, and returned to Hollywood the next day. A few days later Arbuckle learned that Virginia Rappe had been taken to the hospital and had died, and that a friend of the young woman, Maude Delmont, who had been at the party, claimed to police that Arbuckle had assaulted and raped her. (Delmont's testimony was later regarded as unreliable by the police, when it
594-687: A private partnership of Cumulus Media , Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group, and Thomas H. Lee Partners. It was purchased from Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff in 2005 along with other Susquehanna Radio Corporation stations. KNBR has been the radio home of the San Francisco Giants since 1979 (taking over from KSFO ). Play-by-play is done by Jon Miller and Dave Flemming . Miller and Flemming are frequently joined by Giants television broadcasters Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper . The four announcers often share radio and TV broadcasting duties during
660-407: A series of the liveliest motions imagineable, accompanied by a creaking, grinding, rasping sound, followed by tremendous crashes as the cornices of adjoining buildings and chimneys tottered to the ground." Actor John Barrymore was also staying at the hotel at the time of the quake reveling with a young woman over champagne. He remained drunk in his evening clothes the following day, searching amidst
726-581: Is an AM radio station in San Francisco, California , broadcasting on a clear channel from transmitting facilities in Redwood City, California . KNBR's non-directional 50,000-watt class-A signal can be heard throughout much of the western United States and as far west as the Hawaiian Islands at night. For several decades, KNBR enjoyed a long history as the flagship station of NBC 's West Coast radio operations. Two other stations also use
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#1732771847283792-458: Is hosted by Ted Ramey and then The Tom Tolbert Show is simulcast with KNBR 680. The evening shows have Scott Ferrall 's show Ferrall on the Bench , followed by late-night programming from CBS Sports Radio and then NBC Sports Radio. Weekend programs include Mortgage Makeover and various CBS Sports and NBC Sports Radio programming. Commonwealth Club is presented early Sunday mornings. Framing
858-622: Is usually filled in by hosts featured on CBS Sports Radio. Weekend programs include Commonwealth Club , Hooked on Golf , Protect Your Assets with David Hollander , Sports Saloon , At the Track , Gary Allen on Business , and assorted CBS Sports Radio programming. On KTCT, weekday programming consists of the following blocks when not preempted by sports events. The morning shows have CBS Sports Radio with Barber, Tierney, Jacobsen ; The John Feinstein Show , and The Jim Rome Show . The afternoon show
924-455: The 2008 season . In the 2009 season, former Giants baseball and world-class tennis announcer Ted Robinson took over for Starkey as the play-by-play announcer. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan currently call 49er games on KNBR. KNBR and KTCT are charter affiliates of CBS Sports Radio , a joint venture between CBS Radio and Cumulus, which started on January 2, 2013. NBC Sports Radio is also carried on KTCT. On KNBR, weekday programming consists of
990-869: The Fashionable up front. In April 1945, the St. Francis played host to twenty-seven delegations attending the founding meeting of the United Nations , held in the San Francisco Opera House . The St. Francis was host to the delegations from Iran, Canada, Turkey, Egypt and France, represented by French foreign minister Georges Bidault , who stayed in the same suite where the Fatty Arbuckle scandal had taken place. The St. Francis also hosted several Latin American delegations, along with
1056-738: The NBC Orange Network , its third network, serving the West Coast. In 1927, NBC began broadcasting from space rented in the Saint Francis Hotel . It operated there for a short time before moving to the Hunter–Dulin Building ' s 22nd floor. In 1933, KPO was sold to NBC's parent company, the Radio Corporation of America . (RCA), Its operation was consolidated into that of its co-owned KGO at
1122-545: The Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) of 1915, ranging from Helen Keller , three-time Presidential candidate and orator William Jennings Bryan , who came to San Francisco to speak against American involvement in the First World War, and former baseball player and evangelist Billy Sunday , who came to San Francisco to denounce sin and the theory of evolution . The exterior of
1188-648: The Bay Area's Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), but lost the designation in 1990 after major technical malfunctions by the station's engineers during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake . The Federal Communications Commission investigated the issue that the EBS designation was "revoked". KCBS then assumed the role as the originator for the EBS, and the successor Emergency Alert System . KNBR carried programs from ESPN Radio and KTCT aired shows from both ESPN Radio and Fox Sports Radio until 2013 when both stations switched to
1254-544: The Cumulus-distributed CBS Sports Radio . In 2015, KNBR's studios were relocated from 55 Hawthorne Street to 750 Battery Street after parent Cumulus Media consolidated its San Francisco radio stations in one building. KNBR added an FM simulcast on KNBR-FM 104.5 on September 6, 2019. In November 2024, KNBR announced its move from Battery Street to the studios of Levi's Stadium. KNBR and KTCT are owned by Cumulus Media Partners , LLC,
1320-484: The Hunter-Dulin Building. That same year, KPO increased its transmitter power to 50,000 watts following transmitter reconstruction by General Electric . From there, NBC operated its West Coast Orange Network, feeding dozens of stations and operating a news bureau to serve NBC. As NBC's flagship station on the West Coast, KPO had a full-time orchestra, five studios, and produced many live shows. During
1386-652: The KNBR brand. KNBR-FM (104.5 FM ) in San Francisco has been a full-time simulcast of KNBR's programming since September 6, 2019. KTCT (1050 kHz) is licensed to San Mateo, California , with a transmitter located near Hayward, California . It carried a separate sports format known as The Ticket but was rebranded as a second KNBR in 2003. The Sports Leader is the on-air branding used by all three stations. KNBR maintains its studios on Battery Street in San Francisco in San Francisco's Financial District . Between
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#17327718472831452-697: The Pacific Theater of the War. The shops in the lobby of the St. Francis were turned into small rooms for military officers. Hundreds of soldiers, sailors and officers danced in the Mural Room of the St. Francis to the big band music of Harry Owens and the Royal Hawaiians, and his vocalist, Hilo Hattie . Swiss headwaiter Ernest E. Gloor ran the Mural Room for a quarter of a century with an iron hand. As Maître d'hôtel , he would "dress" his room with
1518-902: The Rose Room of the hotel, before going on to greater fame at the New York Biltmore Hotel and the roof garden of the New Amsterdam Theatre . During his time at the St. Francis, he helped popularize such musicians as Paul Whiteman and Ferde Grofe who, after leaving the St. Francis orchestra, went on to compose the Grand Canyon Suite . Part of the fame of the St. Francis was because of its legendary chef, Victor Hirtzler . Hirtzler learned to cook in Strasbourg , France, and then cooked for royal courts across Europe. According to Hirtzler, he had created
1584-768: The St. Francis as he toured the country as part of his unsuccessful effort to win support for American entry into the League of Nations . The 1920 Democratic National Convention was held in San Francisco, and several presidential candidates stayed at the St. Francis, including another visit from William Jennings Bryan. During the 1920s, the St. Francis became the fashionable place to stay for celebrities and film actors coming from Hollywood. St. Francis guests included silent film stars Charlie Chaplin , Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford , cowboy star Tom Mix , Mabel Normand , Fatty Arbuckle , and directors D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille . Other guests included novelist Sinclair Lewis ,
1650-419: The St. Francis compete with The Fairmont , its rival on nearby Nob Hill . Architect William Pereira designed the new building, which was completed in 1972. The murals were rolled up and removed to storage. In September 1975, the hotel's MacArthur Suite was rented by MOS Technology to sell their then brand-new 6502 processors that the nearby Wescon trade show didn't permit them to. The St. Francis became
1716-659: The St. Francis on October 23, 1950—Jolson had just returned from entertaining the troops in Korea. The St. Francis was still owned by the Crocker family until the end of World War II, when the Crocker family sold it to hotel magnate Ben Swig, who then sold it to Edwin B. DeGolia. In 1954, the hotel became the twenty-third property in the Seattle-based Western Hotels chain, which eventually became Western International. With its acquisition by Western Hotels,
1782-403: The St. Francis one of the largest hotels in the city, with more than 1,254 rooms and suites. The St. Francis Hotel was begun by the trustees of the estate of Charles Crocker , one of " The Big Four " railroad magnates who had built the western portion of the transcontinental railway . It was built as an investment for Crocker's two young grandchildren, Templeton Crocker and Jenny Crocker. It
1848-433: The St. Francis. Salvador Dalí posed for newspaper photographers in the bathtub of his hotel room, with a lobster on his head, holding a cabbage in one hand, and wearing a pair of emerald-green goggles, and Cary Grant stayed in the hotel, entertaining friends with scenes from Noël Coward's play Private Lives . After the attack on Pearl Harbor , San Francisco became a major transit point for soldiers and sailors going to
1914-683: The U.S. Under Secretary of State for the Americas, Nelson Rockefeller . The Soviet delegation, led by Soviet foreign minister V.M. Molotov , and the Soviet ambassador to the United States , Andrei Gromyko , also stayed at the St. Francis. In April 1951, the St. Francis hosted General Douglas MacArthur , who received a tumultuous welcome when he returned from Korea after having been dismissed from command by President Harry Truman . Entertainer Al Jolson died while playing cards in his suite at
1980-730: The air. Only before the TV station's first airdate did NBC fight for the construction permit for the TV station until it lost the bid to the de Young family, then the owners of the San Francisco Chronicle . In the 1950s when NBC scrapped its radio comedy, drama, variety shows, and serials, the Los Angeles facility was sold and demolished, and KNBC/KNBR once again became the West Coast NBC network control center and West Coast NBC Radio news operation. KNBR evolved into
2046-429: The banquet began, the waiters, who were members of the culinary workers union, went on strike. Hughes wondered if the banquet should be canceled, but Hirtzler insisted upon it going ahead, and served the meal himself. When the union learned that Hughes had crossed a picket line and eaten the dinner, they distributed thousands of leaflets denouncing him as anti-union. On election night, Hughes went to bed believing he had won
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2112-708: The building housed KBHK-TV and has since been the headquarters of Reddit and Nextdoor .) During World War II , KPO's news bureau was the major source of NBC news about the war in the Pacific, and operated shortwave radio stations (transmitters located in Dixon ) serving the world. It was at the KPO (RCA) shortwave facility that the message was received that Japanese emperor Hirohito had surrendered, ending World War II. On November 23, 1947, NBC changed KPO's call sign to KNBC, to strengthen its identity as an NBC station (and
2178-400: The chaos for a bar with whiskey. The earthquake lasted 55 seconds. A hotel page described the pandemonium inside the hotel: "I found the floor crowded with screaming guests running every which way. As the elevators were all out of order the guests headed for the marble stairs, which were broken and cracked and falling below." The hotel manager, James Woods, wearing his bathrobe, tried to calm
2244-576: The chef of the Waldorf Hotel, and then was persuaded by the manager of the St. Francis, James Woods, to move to San Francisco. In 1916, Hirtzler again cooked a dish which had political consequences. The Crocker family were fervent Republicans and hosted a dinner at the hotel for Charles Evans Hughes , the Republican candidate for President of the United States, who was locked in a close race with incumbent Woodrow Wilson . Twenty minutes before
2310-412: The city's most prestigious addresses. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 badly frightened the guests, but did no structural damage to the hotel. John Farish, a mining engineer staying at the hotel, described the experience: "I was awakened by a loud rumbling noise which could be compared to the mixed sound of a strong wind rushing through a forest and the breaking of waves against a cliff...there began
2376-531: The double-width north wing was completed in 1913, initially as apartments for permanent guests. This section is referred to as the Landmark Building on the hotel's website. The 32- story , 120 m (390 ft) tower to the rear, referred to as the Tower Building, which was completed in 1972, features exterior glass elevators that offer panoramic views of the bay and the square below, making
2442-452: The election. The next morning he awoke and learned that he had lost California by only 3,673 votes, and by losing California had lost the election to Wilson. The margin of his defeat was less than the turnout of union voters in San Francisco. By saving the dinner, Hirtzler had lost the election for Hughes. In 1921, the St. Francis was the scene of Hollywood's first great scandal. The silent film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle , whose fame at
2508-530: The elevator systems to use destination dispatch . Beginning in November 2009 Unite Here Local 2, representing San Francisco hotel workers, asked the public to boycott the Westin St. Francis Hotel because the hotel's owner, Starwood had not renewed a previously settled contract with workers with respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions. The hotel was one of eight in San Francisco boycotted, and
2574-402: The enamelled facing bricks had fallen off in the heat, but otherwise the building was intact. Reconstruction began almost immediately. A small temporary hotel, the little St. Francis, with 110 rooms, was built in the middle of Union Square, to house temporary guests. The hotel re-opened in late 1907. After its re-opening, the St. Francis hosted dozens of celebrities who came to San Francisco for
2640-734: The evening drive time was over. Wednesday nights, Scotty Stirling, Golden State Warriors team executive, hosted a call-in remote from the Carnelian Room at the Bank of America building. In the mid-1970s the station moved to the Embarcadero area. Allan Hotlen became program director in 1975. He was followed in that job by Ron Reynolds, who had been music director and talent under Holten. When Ron Reynolds moved to KYUU , NBC's San Francisco FM outlet, Scott Burton came to KNBR as Program Director. Ron Lyons, C.J. Bronson and Tom Brown became part of
2706-548: The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature , circus impresarios the Ringling Brothers , dancer Isadora Duncan , songwriter George M. Cohan , and Duke Kahanamoku , the champion swimmer of the world, who popularized the sport of surfing . One of the appeals of the St. Francis was its jazz orchestra, led by a young musician named Art Hickman . His band, which in 1914 included Bert Kelly , played in
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2772-400: The following blocks, which are preempted or moved to KTCT when there are regularly scheduled sports events. The morning shows include Murph and Markus (Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher) Papa and Silver ( Greg Papa and Greg Silver). The afternoon show is TBD and Copes (TBD and Adam Copeland). The Evening show is Sportsphone KNBR (Multiple hosts). Late night programming on the weekends
2838-497: The format keeping in step with changing times. In 1979, KNBR was awarded the Billboard Adult Contemporary Station of The Year under GM Bill Dwyer. Scott Burton was program director and Bryan Eaton was music director. Jane Morrison and Gimmy Park Li were the community affairs arm of KNBR. Isabelle Lemon was promotions director. In March 1989, NBC sold KNBR to Susquehanna Radio Corporation ; it
2904-709: The guests, but most of them rushed outside onto Union Square. Later in the morning, opera singer Enrico Caruso and Alfred Hertz , the conductor of the San Francisco Symphony , who was hosting a tour by Caruso, who were both staying at the nearby Palace Hotel, fled the Palace and came to the St. Francis, where the restaurant was still open for breakfast. Caruso carried with him a signed photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt , and swore he would never return to San Francisco; he never did, having died in 1921. The earthquake did not cause major structural damage to
2970-796: The hotel appeared in the Keystone Studios newsreel / documentary two-reeler , Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco , which followed the studio's biggest stars, Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle , as they toured the city and the PPIE. Former President Theodore Roosevelt stayed at the hotel in July 1915, (about midway through the nine-month-long PPIE) and used the occasion to denounce his bitter enemy, President Woodrow Wilson , and to call for American entry into World War I . In September 1919, President Woodrow Wilson stayed at
3036-507: The hotel was also renamed, becoming The Westin St. Francis. In March 2016, Anbang Insurance Group , a Beijing -based Chinese insurance company, purchased the property as part of a $ 6.5 billion deal involving the St. Francis and 15 other luxury hotels and resorts. In April 2018, the hotel completed a four-year renovation of its landmark building at a cost of $ 45 million. Work included redecorating guest rooms and corridors, enlarging some bathrooms to include walk-in showers and upgrading
3102-427: The hotel was changed from a home of elderly San Francisco socialites, some of whom lived in large suites, to a modern hotel focusing on tourism and especially conventions. The old Mural Room, decorated by Albert Herter in 1913 with seven murals comprising The Pageant of Nations , a banquet and ballroom which had hosted many of America's famous big bands, was replaced in 1970 by a six hundred room tower, designed to help
3168-686: The hotel where Republican presidents stayed when in San Francisco, while Democratic presidents usually stayed at the Fairmont . President Gerald Ford was almost shot while leaving the hotel on September 22, 1975 by a woman named Sara Jane Moore . A former Marine, Oliver Sipple , moved her hand so that Ford was not hit. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were guests of the hotel. The St. Francis also hosted many world leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. When Western International became Westin Hotels in 1981,
3234-430: The hotel, but it did begin a series of fires along the waterfront which began to sweep west across the city. It also broke the water mains, so firemen were unable to fight the fires. An hour after midnight the fire reached Union Square and gutted the hotel. When the fire was finally extinguished after three days, it was found that the St. Francis had suffered little serious damage. The copper cornice had warped, and some of
3300-456: The late 1970s. Discussions of actual holiday facts were produced by various air personalities (backed by sounds of a crackling fire as they made cracks about the KNBR fireplace). These were bumpers to sets of holiday music. The production ran on tape for 24 hours. It was updated in the mid 80s by Larry Finkel, who was music director at that time. A short-lived, weekend overnight-only format playing disco and occasional overnight album cuts varied
3366-433: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KNBR&oldid=924659149 " Category : Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages KNBR (AM) KNBR (680 kHz , "KNBR 680 and 104.5 The Sports Leader")
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#17327718472833432-520: The on-air personality staff during the mid to late 1970s. By the late 1970s, KNBR was all music with the exception of sports games. Isabelle Lemon, KNBR's Promotion Director in the 1970s, is credited with creating the "KNBR 68" logo using the California's car license plates as a model in the mid-1970s. The license plate idea was copied as well during the 1970s and 1980s. It was used on bumper stickers, t-shirts and many other promotional items. The logo
3498-594: The only radio station NBC ever owned on the West Coast). This change lasted until fifteen years later, when the network decided to move the KNBC identity to its television station in Los Angeles . NBC had asked the FCC to restore the KPO call letters to the San Francisco radio station but later withdrew that request and 680 AM was renamed KNBR on November 11, 1962. In November 1949, NBC television affiliate KRON-TV went on
3564-498: The phrase This is Gimmy Park Li, your host. No program title was given. Interviews for this program often consisted of local individuals in volunteer, charitable, or minor governmental capacities. Due to its time slot, the program is the quintessential example of the Sunday morning public affairs ghetto . The program has never been promoted outside of its timeslot. Gimmy Park Li was the station's public affairs director. Her signature
3630-494: The rise of Hollywood , NBC's West Coast operation was moved to NBC Radio City Hollywood . In 1941, just before World War II , NBC constructed NBC Radio City San Francisco at 420 Taylor Street. It was considered one of the best radio facilities built during the " Golden Age of Radio ". However, with the network control having been moved to Los Angeles, the San Francisco NBC building was never fully used. (Later,
3696-571: The three stations, games of the San Francisco Giants , San Francisco 49ers , Bay Area Panthers and Stanford Cardinal are broadcast to the San Francisco Bay Area . KTCT was available in the HD format on 1050 kHz but has been broadcasting in analog. In addition, KNBR was simulcast on the HD2 subchannel of KSAN in nearby San Mateo. KNBR began broadcasting on April 17, 1922, as KPO,
3762-449: The time rivaled that of Charlie Chaplin, and a number of friends were guests in rooms 1219, 1220 and 1221. On September 5, 1921, they had a party in their suite, with friends and acquaintances from Hollywood. One guest was a young actress from Hollywood named Virginia Rappe . In mid-afternoon Arbuckle summoned a house doctor and reported that Rappe was sick, and the young woman was taken to another room and put to bed. Arbuckle himself went to
3828-406: The various San Francisco Giants events, Marty Lurie fills in as a host of SportsPhone 680 Giants Warm-Up shows on KNBR every weekend during the baseball season. Originating as part of the station's statutory requirement of public affairs programming , the station now airs an hour-long interview show Saturday mornings at 5 am. During the 1990s, the program typically began and ended with
3894-490: Was discovered Delmont had a lengthy prior record of extortion. She was not called as a witness.) The story was soon in the headlines of newspapers around the United States. Arbuckle was tried for manslaughter in November 1921 in a highly publicized trial. In December, after over 40 hours of deliberations, the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Arbuckle's second trial in January–February 1922 the following year also ended in
3960-542: Was formerly the Compass Rose and before that the Patent Leather Bar, designed by Timothy L. Pflueger . The hotel displays a small collection of photographic prints produced by Ansel Adams to advertise the former Patent Leather Bar, and keeps some old traditions such as an official hotel historian and the industry's only remaining coin cleaning service for guests. A collection of hotel memorabilia
4026-408: Was her sign off: This is Gimmy Park Li, your host. Thank you for spending your time ... with us. Saint Francis Hotel 35 (Tower Building) The Westin St. Francis , formerly known as St. Francis Hotel , is a hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets in San Francisco , adjacent to the whole western edge of Union Square . The two 12-story south wings of the hotel were built in 1904, and
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#17327718472834092-607: Was located in Fox Plaza near the City Hall area in the early 1970s. Until January 1975, KNBR carried NBC's long-running weekend show, Monitor . By the mid-1970s, KNBR evolved musically into a straight-ahead adult contemporary music format and continued as such into the 1980s. KNBR programming included sports from the Oakland Athletics , San Francisco Giants (1978), Golden State Warriors and Oakland Raiders after
4158-412: Was originally meant to be called The Crocker Hotel, but instead it took the name of one of the earliest California Gold Rush hotels, the St. Francis. It was designed by Bliss and Faville in the style of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan , with a relatively bare facade for San Francisco. The hotel opened on March 21, 1904, and, along with the older Palace Hotel on Market Street, immediately became one of
4224-490: Was scene to many protests including picketing. and even a flash mob . In April 2011, the union reached an agreement with Starwood . In September 2024, workers at the Westin St. Francis Hotel went on strike. As of October 21, 2024, the strike remained ongoing. The hotel is distinctive for a historic lobby master clock , the first in the Western United States , and celebrity chef Michael Mina 's Bourbon Steakhouse restaurant, which replaced his self-named restaurant and
4290-423: Was the last radio property held by NBC, which two years earlier made the decision to sell off its radio division following General Electric 's 1986 acquisition of RCA. The station soon added some sports talk in evenings, and took a full-time sports format in 1990 with the lone exception of The Rush Limbaugh Show , which KNBR carried from 1988 until 2000. KNBR formerly served as the primary entry point station of
4356-407: Was used into the 1990s, well over 20 years. KNBR remained a full service news station as well. Gene D'Accardo was news director with Ed Brady, Gill Haar, Robert "Bob" Lazich, Jim Beaver, as part of the news team. NBC network news would be followed by local segments. A holiday format for Christmas holidays was developed written and produced by the station's Assistant Program Director, Bryan Eaton, in
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