Abstract
ABSTRACT Historians have long celebrated the impact of Tom Donahue and KMPX-FM on both radio and the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s. Surviving recordings from that period shed light on how revolutionary the station was, and how freeform FM spread to corporate radio. This study examines KMPX, AM rival KYA, and KSAN, the corporate-owned station later staffed by Donahue and his colleagues. KMPX and its DJs succeeded in marrying the counterculture to the station, propelled by Donahue’s preexisting status in radio. The freeform approach flourished at KSAN, but ultimately could not survive the decline of the counterculture that created it.
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