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

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and a longtime radio personality in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

on KSAN and in

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on KMET,

KROQ-FM KROQ-FM (106.7 Hertz, MHz) is a commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, serving Greater Los Angeles. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts an alternative rock format known as "The World Famous KROQ" (pronou ...

KIIS-FM KIIS-FM (102.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States, and broadcasts to the Greater Los Angeles area. The station airs a top 40 format. Owned by iHeartMedia, KIIS-FM is the origin of the conglome ...

, and in 2006 was heard on

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(SIRIUS), Classic Vinyl and Sirus Gold.

Background

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 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie. The museum documents the history of rock music an ...

main hall and in

The Paley Center for Media The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York with a branch office in Los Angeles, dedicated to ...

. 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 Jim Ladd (born January 17, 1948), 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, natio ...

's semi-biographical account of the history of KMET, "''Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the FM Dial''". 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 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 for USAToday.com, eHow, AZCentral and other publications. Since 2012, Raechel has hosted the weekend show on internet radio station Boss Boss Radio,http://www.BossBossRadio.com playing Top 40 hits from the Boss Radio era 1964 thru 1980.

References

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