1950's & 1960's
In 1964, the KFBK’s owners in the McClatchy company added television stations, including KOVR-TV, licensed to Stockton and serving the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto television market. (Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto are considered separate markets for radio stations.) KOVR-TV is the oldest continuously operating television station in the Sacramento market, having started in 1954 with a transmitter on Mount Diablo in the East Bay Area.
The KFBK studios were at 7th and I Streets in downtown Sacramento. The studios included not just typical radio broadcasting studios, but large auditoriums for orchestra programs, singing performances, game shows, and other events with live audiences in attendance. Among the programs broadcast were Sacramento Solons baseball games (plated at Edmonds Field, near the corner of Broadway and Riverside, 'Murder Mystery Hour' programs, and many radio dramas. Some were nationally syndicated broadcasts, and others were produced locally, by the KF-Bee-K players.
IN THE NEWS
1955
Folsom Dam is completed
1959
University of California, Davis is named as the 7th UC campus
1962
Creation of American River Parkway by Sacramento County
1967
Sacramento International Airport opens
1969
Centennial of the Transcontinental Railroad