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
- "Running the Record Plant, Part 1: The Early Years". kqed.org. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "News -- St. Petersburg, FL". St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce - Saint Petersburg, FL. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "KSAN Photo Gallery". ksanjive95themovie.com. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- Inc, Nielsen Business Media (9 August 1975). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via Google Books.
- "For DJ Bonnie Simmons, the music never gets old". sfgate.com. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "KSAN FM – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "Meet the Radio Hall of Fame's class of 2010". sfgate.com. 19 September 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "KSAN Reunion Attendees Try To Remember – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- California Historical Radio Society, CHRS (18 June 2014). "KSAN LEGENDS LUNCHEON June 5 2014". Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via YouTube.
- "The BARD Interview: Terry McGovern (1990) – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California on December 27, 1975 · Page 31". newspapers.com. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- 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.
- "Course detail — KSAN, a Rock & Roll History – Lehrhaus Judaica". catalog.lehrhaus.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "The Bonnie Simmons Show – KPFA". kpfa.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "Ozzie's Soda Fountain". berkeleyside.com. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "Transportation". Mercenary Productions. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "The Bonnie Simmons Show – KPFA". kpfa.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- "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.