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Music and Radio Trade Magazine 1958 - 2002

The Gavin Report was a San Francisco-based radio industry trade publication. The publication was founded by radio performer Bill Gavin in 1958 Its Top 40 listings were used for many years by programmers to decide content of programs. The publication was also responsible for running the Gavin Seminar, a convention for radio industry members.
The Gavin Report was the first in a category often called "tip sheets" which grew into many different publications.
This class of publications were used primarily by radio stations to follow similar stations in other cities to see "what was working". And record companies used them to help their promotion efforts and to learn who was playing thier songs and who still needed "encouragement" to get songs into rotation.

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Thanks to Jordan Harari who contributed nearly 100 of these issue with articles by his father, to former Gavin staff member Annette Lai who provided several hundred more and to Melissa McConnell of KVHS where dozens of stored copies were found and sent to this site.

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Special Editions

25th Anniversary Special Edition 1983

"40 Years that Shaped the Sound of America"

35th Anniversary Special Edition 1993

We are working to grow the Gavin Report collection as issues become available.

The Gavin Report was a San Francisco-based radio industry trade publication. The publication was founded by radio performer Bill Gavin in 1958 Its Top 40 listings were used for many years by programmers to decide content of programs. The publication was also responsible for running the Gavin Seminar, a convention for radio industry members

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