![]() She started in Boston at stations WBCN and WNTN (1973-1974) before moving to WABX in Detroit. Prior to KCRW, O’Donoghue spent most of her career at freeform radio stations around the country. A select few have also been made commercially available by the artists.) (Many have circulated in bootlegged form, taped directly from the airwaves by fans. ![]() Without O’Donoghue's canny sense of history, none of these master recordings would exist today. ![]() And she similarly insisted on keeping the reel-to-reel masters of every "SNAP!" live performance, believing that they were an acceptable form of compensation for her (otherwise unpaid) airtime. She obsessively taped her own show live from the board, creating a personal archive of over 1,000 cassettes. She was also highly protective of the show, refusing to share her playlists (nowadays required for rights and royalties reporting) with the Music Department.īut it was that same protective nature that made it possible to tell O’Donoghue’s story today. She was at odds with her bosses at KCRW and was briefly fired from the station in 1986. ![]() She didn’t like photos, and often hid behind a hat or a scarf. “SNAP!” was O’Donoghue’s safe haven, but behind the scenes and off-mic, she could be mysterious.
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