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- With Donahue at the helm, KSAN has remained virtually unchallenged as the top progressive rock station in town.
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KSAN Radio: 1968-1980 The Jive 95 Years – The history of San Francisco's fabled KSAN (The Jive 95), one of the original underground/progressive/album/acid rock radio stations in the industry, led by the visionary Tom Donahue (a/k/a Big Daddy)...
The staff of KSAN in 1967. 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.)
Aug 26, 2014 · The induction triggered the biggest KSAN reunion since 1992, when staffers gathered at KUSF, then home of a Sunday series, “Jive Radio,” featuring former free-form DJs. It began at Yoshi’s, with a concert and auction to benefit the California Historical Radio Society and the radio Hall of Fame.
Aug 17, 2023 · According to Rosenfeld, Laufer and others, KSAN made history that still resonates today. The news department reported on the Indian invasion and occupation of Alcatraz Island. The station sent ...
Although KSAN was owned by a large New York-based media conglomerate, Metromedia Corporation, its initial aim was to rise above the commercial fray and broadcast a mix of music and political satire.
The owners of KSAN at the time were Metromedia and they recognized an opportunity quickly. Metromedia switched the format of KSAN from classical music to freeform rock, and hired Donahue and most of the his Ex-KMPX staffers, who then started at the station on May 21. With this change, KSAN became a groundbreaking and historic rock station.
This is the definitive documentary about the San Francisco progressive free form radio station KSAN Jive 95. The Jive 95 was founded by radio legend Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue in May 1968.
