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TwitterThe Bay Area’s only All News radio station, KCBS started out as the hobby of scientist and inventor, Dr. Charles Herrold. Giving birth to the world’s first radio station, Herrold and his engineering students began broadcasting regularly-scheduled programming in January 1909 on a 14-watt transmitter at the southern rim of the bay. Originally, the station lacked call letters and simply identified itself as “This is San Jose Calling.” When radio licenses were issued in 1921, Dr. Herrold was assigned the call letters of KQW. The station kept those call letters until CBS purchased it in 1949.
Photo of Old StationNews radio was born in the late 60′s when KCBS became the first all-news station in Northern California. KCBS is one of the most honored radio stations in the United States, winning every major national award for excellence in broadcast journalism in the last ten years alone. These awards include the Peabody Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award, five Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-TV News Directors Association, the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Crystal Award for public service from the National Association of Broadcasters.
With a news style reflecting the Bay Area’s hunger for up to the minute information, KCBS proudly serves the latest CBS Network News, Local News, Traffic, Weather, Business, and Sports. Additional KCBS features include Entertainment, Food, Finance, and Health reports. As the world’s first broadcasting station, KCBS has certainly come a long way since its modest beginnings in 1909.
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