Welcome to the New CHRS Website
This is the new, full featured CHRS / BARM Web Site. Click around and explore. Click on the main tabs above and on each of the pull down tabs. You can renew and donate on line and pay with PayPal…
The Charles D. ‘Doc’ Herrold Award
Each year CHRS/BARM presents this prestigious award to people who exhibit "Outstanding Achievement in the Preservation and Documentation of Early Radio." Learn about Charles Herrold: For 2013, the CHRS Herrold Award goes to John Staples, PhD and W6BM, for his…
Living History Project
On this page you will find audio interviews with important people in Bay Area Radio. We will be posting video versions of these interviews in time. We are getting quite a few interviews, so check back as new ones are…
International Radio Restoration Contest – Sponsored by the Quebec Antique Radio Society
Gilles Vrignaud will be the CHRS Judge and contest liaison. Please contact Gilles for more information. Dear fellow CHRS members, We have been invited to participate in a worldwide restoration contest, sponsored by the Société Québécoise Collectioneurs de Radio Anciens (SQCRA) Based…
Thank You Volunteers!
Our Landlord, Mr. Harvey Stone, KBLX GM, visited KRE as part of the KRE Staff and Family Reunion in September. He hadn’t seen the building in 6 years and was truly amazed and very impressed at the transformation from a…
CHRS / BARM Welcomes New Directors
Our valued Treasurer and Director, Jaime Arbona, stepped down in 2011 due to work commitments. We wish to thank Jaime for an outstanding job he has done in the Treasurer and Membership Chairman positions, with help from Elizabeth Kline-Wong. We…
Photo Gallery
Have photos of your collection, special radios or radio events you want to share in our Gallery? Just get them to Mike Adams and he will post them. Photos below are from the first Radio Cabinet Overview Class on April 11th…
100 Years of Radio
by Mike Adams | Learn more about Mike's research and publication | Back by Popular Demand: The Emmy-Nominated 1985 PBS Series, "Radio Collector" | CHRS YouTubePage | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5J8AwkOgQM RADIO BROADCASTING HISTORY BY DECADES: The Technology, The Programming, The Business 1900-1910 - BIRTH 1. THE…
CHRS / BARM Receives Major Donations
We are pleased to report that CHRS / BARM is the proud recipient of a $75,000 donation from CHRS Life member Norman Leal. Thank You Norm! Your generosity is deeply appreciated by every member of this organization. This donation means…
LIVE! at KRE 2011
LIVE! at KRE continues to be a major source of our funding for the year. The 2011 event was dedicated to the memory of our good friend Carter B. Smith, who we lost in January 2011. With hundreds in attendance,…