Bonnie Simmons

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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.

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  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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "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.
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