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           Beginning in the 1930's, Los Angeles radio station KFI developed a series of programs promoting Scouting to all the radio listeners within earshot of KFI's powerful signal across Southern California. The radio station was owned and operated by Earle C. Anthony who, through his Radio Division Public Service Department and the Region XII Boy Scouts of America, found it beneficial to become one of the biggest supporters of Scouting in Southern California during the 1940's and 1950's. There is no record of Mr. Anthony every being a scout himself but like Thomas May of the May Co., he could not resist expanding his listening base (and thereby his advertizing profits) to the thousands of scouts and their families throughout Southern California.
           There were two basic events conducted by KFI and attended by Crescent Bay Council scouts. First, there was a weekly radio broadcast highlighting southern California scouts and their families and second, an annual wilderness pack trip into the High Sierra.
The radio station awarded various patches and banners with different program names on them, all of which seemingly overlapped with each other in one fashion or another.