California Historical Radio Society

[1] California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) was founded by Norman Berge, Jim Cirner, Gene Rippen, and several others as a non-profit corporation in 1974 and was qualified as an IRC 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

CHRS absorbed the web-only Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame,[2] which was founded by David Ferrell Jackson[3] in 2003, in Berkeley, California.

In 2014, CHRS moved to Alameda from its earlier temporary home at the historic Berkeley radio station KRE.

[4][5] Each fall CHRS inducts notable local broadcasters into its Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.

[10] Current activities in the museum include an evolving television history display managed by physicist Dr. John W. Staples.

Then and now, 1901 and 2019 - CHRS Radio Central, main building, Alameda, CA, photos Mike Adams (colorized)
Radio Day by the Bay, 2017; photo Mike Adams