Art Lebermann

Transmitter Engineer Art Lebermann will be filing reports on KGO's solar installation as it progresses.

Art grew up in Detroit, where he was bitten by the radio and electronics bug by the time he was 10. He attended one of the few high schools in the country at the time to have its own low power FM radio station; joining the student staff as a freshman, he earned his Second Class Commercial Radiotelephone License and became the station's chief engineer. The next year he passed the FCC test for the first class license; on graduation he became chief engineer for local station WQRS, where he continued part time while at college. After a year of electrical engineering studies he left to join a friend in launching a new radio station, WLIN-FM, in the early '60s. He was chief engineer there until the station was sold a few years later.

After more studies and work on the Detroit radio scene, Art joined the Air Force in 1967. In his four years of active duty, he attended tech school and spent a year on Ascension Island. Sent to McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, he decided to stay in California when he left the service in 1971.

He's been in Bay Area radio ever since: 16 years as chief engineer at KRE/KBLX, followed by more staff and contract engineering work with other stations and a broadcast equipment manufacturer. In 1998 he joined KGO/KSFO as transmitter supervisor.

Art also currently serves as chairman of the Bay Area chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society. He's also interested in photography, vintage radios, and cars: he can often be seen working on restoring his 1959 Alfa Romeo or driving about town in his 1997 C5 Corvette.