George Henry Ruge is a Charter Member of the Broadcast Legends. Mr. Ruge's broadcast career spanned many years in San Francisco radio at stations KYA, KFRC

KFRC (defunct)

KFRC was a radio station in San Francisco, California in the United States, which made its first broadcast on Wednesday, September 24, 1924, from studios in the Hotel Whitcomb 1231 Market Street. KFRC originally broadcast with 50 watts on the 270 meter wavelength , then moved to 660 kHz. in...

, KNBR

KNBR

KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco, California, area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media....

, and KGO

KGO (AM)

KGO is a news/talk-format radio station radio with offices and studios in San Francisco, California. Unlike most other American news/talk stations, KGO originates nearly all of its own programming locally. Since 1978, KGO radio has received Arbitron's number-one ranking in the Bay Area...

. He created, wrote, produced and broadcast the "Sunday Special" biographies on KFRC that profiled notable artists of the day, including The Beatles

The Beatles

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, Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

, and Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America...

 among others. Ruge hosted a talk show on KGO radio before becoming that station's News Director.

Ruge is a graduate of Balboa High School (San Francisco), and San Francisco State College.