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Raechel Donahue
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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, and a longtime radio personality in San Francisco on KSAN and in Los Angeles on KMET, KROQ, KIIS-FM, and in 2006 was heard SIRIUS Satellite Radio (SIRIUS), Classic Vinyl and Sirus Gold]]. In 2007 she has a daily audio blog on the All Star Radio Network called Brush With Fame. Author, journalist and voiceover artist for film, television and commercials, she is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame main hall and in the Museum of Television and Radio. 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'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, with a new film, "Airplay", due out in the summer of 2007. Her most recent book is The Ropes.