Bonnie Simmons

Bonnie Simmons is a California based radio personality. Audio director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is also a band manager, currently managing or having managed in the past Cake, Noe Venable and Etienne de Rocher.

Simmons started at KSAN[1] in 1968[2] as the record librarian,[3] became music librarian, music director, on-air DJ, and by 1975,[4] was the program director.[5][6][7][8][9][10][3][11][12][13]

Simmons is executive director of the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation.[5]

Simmons spent several years working as a sandwich-maker at Ozzie’s Soda Fountain in Berkeley.[14][15]

Simmons runs the transport department for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.[16][5]

Simmons volunteers for The Bonnie Simmons Show at 8:00 PM Pacific Time on Thursdays on KPFA.[17][18]

Simmons was inducted into the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in the "Legends of Rock Radio-Programming" category for her work at KSAN in 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Running the Record Plant, Part 1: The Early Years". kqed.org. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. ^ "News -- St. Petersburg, FL". St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce - Saint Petersburg, FL. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b "KSAN Photo Gallery". ksanjive95themovie.com. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (9 August 1975). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ a b c "For DJ Bonnie Simmons, the music never gets old". sfgate.com. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  6. ^ "KSAN FM – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Meet the Radio Hall of Fame's class of 2010". sfgate.com. 19 September 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  8. ^ "KSAN Reunion Attendees Try To Remember – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. 26 August 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  9. ^ California Historical Radio Society, CHRS (18 June 2014). "KSAN LEGENDS LUNCHEON June 5 2014". Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via YouTube.
  10. ^ "The BARD Interview: Terry McGovern (1990) – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California on December 27, 1975 · Page 31". newspapers.com. 27 December 1975. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  12. ^ Halper, Donna L. (15 February 2014). Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765636713. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ "Course detail — KSAN, a Rock & Roll History – Lehrhaus Judaica". catalog.lehrhaus.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  14. ^ "The Bonnie Simmons Show – KPFA". kpfa.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  15. ^ "Ozzie's Soda Fountain". berkeleyside.com. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  16. ^ "Transportation". Mercenary Productions. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  17. ^ "The Bonnie Simmons Show – KPFA". kpfa.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  18. ^ "Radio Survivor's top radio shows - Matthew's #1: Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson on KPFA - Radio Survivor". radiosurvivor.com. 29 January 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.