San Jose, California

=== Media ===
{{Main|Media in the San Francisco Bay Area}}
San Jose is served by Greater Bay Area media. Print media outlets in San Jose include ''[[The Mercury News]]'', the weekly ''[[Metro Silicon Valley]]'', ''El Observador'' and the ''Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal''. The Bay Area's [[NBC]] [[Owned-and-operated station|O&O]], [[KNTV]] 11, is licensed to San Jose. In total, broadcasters in the Bay Area include 34 television stations, 25 AM radio stations, and 55 FM radio stations.<ref>[http://www.choisser.com/channels.html Digital/HDTV Television Channel List – SF Bay Area] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416090437/http://www.choisser.com/channels.html |date=April 16, 2010 }}. Choisser.com. Retrieved on April 14, 2011.</ref>

In April 1909, [[Charles David Herrold]], an electronics instructor in San Jose, constructed a radio station to broadcast the human voice. The station, "San Jose Calling" (call letters FN, later FQW), was the world's first radio station with scheduled programming targeted at a general audience.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} The station became the first to broadcast music in 1910. Herrold's wife Sybil became the first female "disk jockey" in 1912. The station changed hands a number of times before becoming today's{{when|date=May 2023}} [[KCBS (AM)|KCBS]] in San Francisco.<ref name="KQW">{{cite web |title=KQW Radio, San Jose |url=http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kqw/kqw_30th-anniv_nov-10-1945.shtml |publisher=Bay Area Radio Museum |author=Marty Cheek |access-date=June 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203083252/http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kqw/kqw_30th-anniv_nov-10-1945.shtml |archive-date=February 3, 2007 }}</ref>