 Robert S. Kieve - President of Empire Broadcasting Corporation
Robert S. Kieve is president of Empire Broadcasting Corporation, a company which he formed in 1967. Empire Broadcasting owns and operates 1590 KLIV and acts as operating partner of 95.3 KRTY.
Kieve also serves as a radio commentator, frequently sharing his views about issues in Silicon Valley. A 1943 graduate of Harvard College, Kieve was general manager of the Harvard undergraduate radio station. After summer jobs in New Jersey radio stations, he began his career as information officer of the American Embassy in Madrid, Spain, during and after World War II.
He was program director and play-by-play announcer at WGVA in Geneva, NY, and was a promotion writer for CBS in New York City.
In 1953 he became a special assistant in the White House office, acting as a writer for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In 1957 he became general manager of radio station WBBF in Rochester, NY. During his ten years in Rochester, he also put on the air station WBBF-FM, a 24-hour classical music station, which won the first annual award of the American Music Council for excellence in FM programming.
He is the author of El Arte Radiofonico, a book that, for many years was Spain's only publication on radio broadcasting.
In San Jose, he is a past chairman of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce and past chairman of the Chamber's political action committee.
He is a board member of Symphony Silicon Valley and serves on the boards of the California Broadcasters Association and of Regional Medical Center in San Jose.
To contact Robert Kieve: kieve@empirebroadcasting.com
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