Bonnie Simmons began her career in radio with a couple of different administrative roles at fabled Freeform radio station KSAN-FM, the Jive 95 broadcaster that rocked San Francisco for many a year when the Classic Era of Rock Music was being birthed. Soon enough she was behind the mic and quickly became one of the most recognized voices in broadcasting. That was fifty-six years ago and she still plays tunes for the listening audience in the Bay Area with her weekly Thursday n

Can Radical Radio and Social Media co-exist? Better still, might they actually compliment each other? It's a question or two worth asking and apparently worth paying to find out, as Founding Member David Shepardson has done. Here's why. A while back, we worked with a couple of savvy art directors at BeCause Communications to design a pitch deck. We want to find seed capital to explore funding a film or documentary about Freeform Radio. We call that project Radio Active, which

Whether or not she was the very best of all the remarkably talented deejays of the Freeform Radio era, there were none bettter than the late, great Dusty Street. She was one of the very first female jocks when Tom Donahue founded KMPX-FM and had the good sense to hire her, first for her engineering skills but very soon thereafter for her brilliant taste in music. She rocked the airwaves from Day One and drew a huge, devoted audience. Dusty knew the music and she knew how to p

Here's a great piece that came our way from our friend June Renwick, who was in Great Britain when pirate radio was happening. This...