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Raechel Donahue is a rock radio pioneer generally associated with her husband Tom Donahue, who died in 1975. She was the original entertainment reporter for CNN, briefly served as VJ for Cable Music Channel [1] [2] [3] and a longtime radio personality in San Francisco on KSAN and in Los Angeles on KMET, KROQ-FM, KIIS-FM, and in 2006 was heard on SIRIUS Satellite Radio (SIRIUS), Classic Vinyl and Sirus Gold. [4]
In 2009 she had a daily audio blog on the All Star Radio Network called Brush With Fame and a weekend show on the Dial-Global Radio Network. Author, journalist and voiceover artist for film, television and commercials, she is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame main hall and in The Paley Center for Media. She was honored by the latter in both the New York and Los Angeles exhibitions entitled She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio. She is also a major figure (along with husband Tom) in Jim Ladd's semi-biographical account of the history of KMET, "Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the FM Dial". [5] Currently, Raechel works as a documentary film maker; "Airplay", was released in the summer of 2007 and "Drawn to Yellowstone" was by Wyoming PBS in 2009 [6] and the self-produced documentary about World War II Japanese internment camps, "Heart Mountain: An All American Town," was played on public television stations across America and in 175 countries and territories by the Armed Forces Network. Donahue has written hundreds of articles about travel and food [7] for USAToday.com, eHow, AZCentral and other publications. Since 2012, Raechel has hosted the weekend show on internet radio station Boss Boss Radio, [8] playing Top 40 hits from the Boss Radio era 1964 thru 1980.
Jim Ladd, an American disc jockey, radio producer and writer, is one of the few notable remaining freeform rock DJs in United States commercial radio. Ladd first gained national prominence as host of the hour long, nationally syndicated radio program Innerview, which aired weekly on over 160 stations nationwide for twelve years. Ladd has interviewed the likes of John Lennon, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Rush, Styx, U2, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Eagles and Led Zeppelin.
KLOS is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Los Angeles, California and serves the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Meruelo Media. KLOS airs a mainstream rock radio format and has broadcast rock music in some form since 1969. The KLOS studios are located in Burbank and its transmitter is situated atop Mount Wilson. Until September 2019, the studios were located on Lindblade Street in Culver City. The station is rebroadcast on FM translator K255BZ in China Lake, California.
Canal 13 is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. It was launched on 21 August 1959, on VHF channel 2 of Santiago, in a broadcast led by a group of engineers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Subsequently, the TV station moved its frequency to VHF channel 13, which gave rise to its current name. In its beginnings, one of its most important milestones was the broadcast of the 1962 FIFA World Cup, held in Chile.
Cable radio or cable FM is a concept similar to that of cable television, bringing radio broadcasting into homes and businesses via coaxial cable. It is generally used for the same reason as cable TV was in its early days when it was "community antenna television", in order to enhance the quality of over-the-air radio signals that are difficult to receive in an area. However, cable-only radio outlets also exist.
KMET was a Los Angeles FM radio station owned by Metromedia that broadcast at 94.7 MHz, beginning on May 2, 1966. It signed off on February 14, 1987. The station, nicknamed "The Mighty Met", was a pioneering station of the "underground" progressive rock format.
KKLQ is a non-commercial radio station owned by Educational Media Foundation (EMF) and carries the contemporary Christian music format of its nationally syndicated network K-Love throughout the Greater Los Angeles area. Licensed to Los Angeles, California, KKLQ's transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson and has a booster in Santa Clarita, KKLQ-FM2 at 100.3 MHz, to extend its coverage into the Santa Clarita Valley and other areas north of Los Angeles.
KTWV is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc., and airs an urban adult contemporary radio format. KTWV has studios on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles. As "94.7 The Wave," the station was known for pioneering the smooth jazz radio format in the late 1980s.
Richard Blade is a British-American Los Angeles-based radio, television, and film personality from Torquay, England. He is best known for his radio programs that feature new wave and popular music from the 1980s. He was a disk jockey at KROQ in Los Angeles from 1982 to 2000 and has been a host for SiriusXM's 1st Wave classic alternative station since 2005.
KWVE-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to San Clemente, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area and northern San Diego County. KWVE-FM airs Christian radio programming with an emphasis on Bible teaching and Christian music of the praise and worship genre. The station is owned by Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, with its transmitter atop Santiago Peak and studios in the church-owned Logos Building in Santa Ana, adjacent to the church campus.
Adult standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.
Underground Garage is the name shared by two related but different radio outlets, a syndicated show and a satellite radio station, both created and supervised by American musician Steven Van Zandt to present rock 'n' roll and garage rock on radio. Both outlets play a mixture of garage rock both old and new, and the music which influenced today's garage rock. On both the Sirius XM channel and on the syndicated show, one song is regularly proclaimed as "The Coolest Song in the World This Week."
Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue, was an American rock and roll radio disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter.
John H. Garabedian is an American radio personality and disc jockey. He is best known as the creator and former long-time host of Open House Party. He has been involved in Massachusetts radio and television stations for more than fifty years. In 2013, he was awarded "Broadcaster of the Year" for the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, and in 2014, inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He is currently the President of Jamchannel, a syndication company that produces Liveline hosted by Mason Kelter, a live national weeknight show for Top 40 stations.
The Cable Music Channel (CMC) was a short-lived American basic cable channel that was owned by the Turner Broadcasting System. The all-music video channel was created by Ted Turner and launched in 1984, providing the first national competition to MTV. Turner later stated that the channel existed at the behest of the cable industry as a defense mechanism against MTV's unsuccessful attempts to increase the fees that cable providers paid to carry the channel by twofold; Turner offered the channel without any carriage fees.
The year 1968 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.
B. Mitchel Reed was a successful American disc Jockey on both Top 40 and album-oriented rock radio stations, working in New York and Los Angeles during his 25-year career.
KYLD is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area and owned by San Antonio–based iHeartMedia. The station airs a Mainstream Top 40 format on its analog primary signal. The station has studios located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, and the transmitter is located atop the San Bruno Mountains.
Marion Elbridge Herrington, best known as Captain Mikey, was an American disc jockey; voice-over actor, who was the national voice for Sears; and innovative radio program director, who "pioneered album-oriented rock formats at San Jose's KOME and Los Angeles' KMET", and was described as "one of the very best programmers in Top 40 radio as well as what we called progressive rock on FM."
Jim Pewter is an american radio DJ, songwriter, producer, linernotes author and an authority about pop, rock, surf music/surf rock, rockabilly, doo wop, oldies, and jazz. Pewter was host of the daily radio program The Jim Pewter Show, heard worldwide on Armed Forces Radio and Television Service for thirty-plus years, and his show was the first music show to be broadcast to our troops serving in Desert Storm.
Smooth jazz was a popular radio format that included songs by artists such as George Benson, Pat Metheny, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Sade, Robin Thicke, Anita Baker, Basia, Dave Koz and Chuck Mangione. It began in the 1980s as "adult alternative" or NAC, a well-defined radio format, with jazz, new-age music and adult contemporary music. In the 1990s, the format became much more jazz-oriented, with very little new-age, and emphasizing young artists.