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- ↑ Bay Area radio website
- ↑ San Mateo Times, 1968
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- ↑ "Bay Area News Group makes changes to East Bay papers". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ↑ Bay Area News Group announces it will retain East Bay mastheads
- ↑ DIGITAL FIRST COMBINES S.F. BAY AREA TITLES.
