KSFO Local News Coverage

KSFO news car   Portable transmitter   

After KSFO lost its CBS affiliation in 19xxx, KSFO continued to attract large audiences by focusing on local news coverage.  A large staff of news reporters was continuously out in the community, reporting on live news events.

ABOVE, LEFT:  KSFO news car, 1942.     ABOVE, RIGHT:  A KSFO reporter reports on a fire using a portable backpack shortwave transmitter.

BELOW: KSFO newsmen Bob Hansen, Harlan Frederick and Austin Fenger, News Director, posed in front of the microphone, 1945.  

Fenger


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