Co-produced by the Broadcast Legends and the California Historical Radio Society, the luncheon event will also reconfirm the naming of KSAN-FM, in its progressive rock years, as the Hall of Fame’s Legendary Station of the year. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern’s graduate school of journalism, he joined the station in its promotions department in 1977, when it had a news and talk format. While attending the University of Montana, he hosted remote shows featuring country bands in Missoula. Norman Davis was part of the “Jive 95” crew at KSAN in the ’70s, when he was a late-night DJ and production director, creating station promos and commercials. (Before the A’s assignment, Bitker called games for the Sonoma County Crushers, the minor league club in Rohnert Park.) Bitker also wrote a book, “The Original San Francisco Giants,” about the 1958 team. Celeste Perry has been a quick and witty presence on Bay Area airwaves since 1982, when she arrived from Hawaii, where she began her radio career, she admits, as a station mascot. Before he landed at KBAY (94.5) in San Jose, where he’s been co-hosting the morning show with Lissa Kreisler for nearly 10 years, Van Zandt worked at five stations in San Francisco: KYA, KIOI, the combo of KNEW-KSAN (with a country format), KCBS-FM (then a music station) and KFRC. Van Zandt, a San Jose native, was an announcer and cast member on “Candid Camera” on CBS from 1997 to 2005, and has worked on local TV shows, including “Evening Magazine” and “AM San Francisco.” [...] he’s produced two plays, a “Citizen Kane” parody called Aaah! Since the announcement, he said, he’s received supportive messages. Before making his announcement, Owens hosted The Chronicle’s David Wiegand, the TV critic and executive features editor, whose story about Owens’ plans to go public ran that morning.

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