Goodwin Knight was elected as the Lieutenant Governor of California under Earl Warren in 1946 then reelected in 1950. He became governor himself when Warren resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1953.  The date of this United Press International  (UPI) story would have been between 1946 and 1950.   UPI was the principal source of news and competed with the Associated Press (AP).  

Bill Bates was an avid Amateur Radio (Ham) operator first licensed in 1916 with the call sign of 6KL.  ( see story )   His call was later changed by the FCC to 6CF and eventually to W6CF (W6 Charlie Fox).   He was well known and respected as a pioneer not only broadcast radio but as an Amateur radio operator.   His QSL (contact confirmation) card was much sought after.  He was one of the first Amateur radio operators to have a complete mobile station installed in his vehicles.

Around 1955, before going on the air with his program on KTRB each morning,  Bill Bates, using his ham radio equipment  would contact ham radio operators in western states, including Hawaii and Alaska and gather real time local weather conditions from them which he then delivered on the air at KTRB during his program.   Around 1957 or 1958 KTRB's chief technician Cliff Price, a ham radio operator himself (W6ERE) took over from Bill collecting the ham radio weather reports using his own ham station equipment at his home.   He then delivered the reports to Bill when he got to the station.  

From that small beginning the network, later known at the "Weather Net" grew to included hundreds of ham radio operators throughout the west.  They all met around 39.56 kHz on the 75 meter ham radio band.  Sometime in the early '60s  Bill asked Cliff to build a ham station upstairs in the engineering office at KTRB.  The result was a full 1,000 watt station which served as the net control station for many years.  Below is a copy of the weather sheets that were used to record the weather information that Bill would deliver on the air.   The reports became extremely popular in the years before weather satellite came into existence.   (See related story)

Cliff Price, W6ERE at the KTRB ham station used to collect western states weather reports.  (r) 1,000 watt home-brew ham transmitter.

KTRB promotional brochure believe to be from the 1950s.

During the Vietnam war  Bill Bates asked listeners to donate afghan's to be given to injured servicemen recuperating at a navel hospital in Oakland.   Approximately 1 1/2 tons of afghans were  later delivered to the hospital by Cal Purviance, Don Schneider and Phil Barber.   In this photo newsman Don Schneider inspects some of the afghans collected with a local nurse. 

(Courtesy of Lois Moran)

Model 15 news teletype printer at KTRB and news copy ripped off the machine and organized on hooks.