Jim Lange

Elected to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, 2006

Veteran radio and television personality, Jim Lange is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota and began his extensive broadcasting career in high school by winning a contest. First prize netted him a job as sports reporter and disc jockey on a local Twin Cities radio station.

Jim was awarded a Chick Evans scholarship and decided to study radio and television speech at the University of Minnesota. After a three-year stint as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, Lange headed west for a job as an all-night disc jockey at KGO in San Francisco where he was proclaimed the "All-Nite Mayor" by the city government. Jim then moved across town to KSFO and remained there for 23 years as a radio personality and sports announcer.

He began his television career in 1962 on "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show" for ABC-TV. In 1965, he began what was to be a 17 year run as host of the "Dating Game," again for ABC-TV and later in the syndicated version. "The Dating Game" boosted Jim to a new height of national popularity, and he emerged as one of the top television game show personalities.

In 1990, Jim started to host the morning show at Magic 61 (previously known as KFRC) in San Francisco. He is now at KABL-AM in San Francisco.