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Donahue, and his DJ wife Raechel also took over programming of free-form radio stations KMET and KPPC-FM in Los Angeles. In 1972, he moved to the role of general manager at KSAN , where he encouraged DJs to play music from different eras and genres interspersed with interesting commentary.
Tom was a pioneer of freeform FM or underground radio, and was the station manager and top radio personality for KSAN until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1975. The photo is of Tom and his daughter Poppy in the KSAN studio.
Aug 26, 2014 · Alumni came from as far away as Cleveland (Street) and Port Townsend, Washington, home of Buzzy Donahue, daughter of Tom Donahue, the late godfather and guru of KSAN and its predecessor, KMPX. “I’d rather be in a group hug than be sending flowers to a funeral,” she reasoned.
As the FM fever began to spread, Donahue, and his DJ wife Raechel also took over programming of free-form radio stations KMET and KPPC-FM in Los Angeles. KSAN 95 San Francisco - Tom Donahue Interviews Frank Zappa - 1968
A new book, The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco, written by journalist Hank Rosenfeld, has been published by Backbeat Books. (It’s available in the U.S. here; it arrives in the U.K. on Oct. 15.)
Donahue is survived by his wife, Raechel, who has become one of KSAN’s most popular (and best) disc jockeys herself, and five children: Catherine (Buzzy), 25, Tom Jr., 23, Sean, 20, Deirdre, 16, and Jesse, 4.
In 1968, he moved from KMPX to KSAN, where he encouraged deejays to program their own shows with music from different eras and genres and to build sets around themes, interspersed with political commentary.Donahue and his wife Raechel – herself a popular and influential disk jockey – founded four of the first free-form stations on the West ...
