"We'd really prefer that our music programmer stick to music and not review the war on Nicaragua or, for that matter, films or other records," Hirschman said.
On November 2, 1987, the LA Times' Patrick Goldstein reported that O’Donoghue had been unceremoniously fired from KCRW by the station's then-General Manager, Ruth Hirschman. "SNAP!" premiered on Saturday night, December 4, 1982, and remained on the air until tensions over O’Donoghue’s unfiltered hosting style came to a head five years later. (At the latter, she met her friend, "Le Show" creator, and occasional "SNAP!" fill-in host, Harry Shearer.) KCRW's Tom Schnabel, then-host of " Morning Becomes Eclectic," fortuitously heard O'Donoghue on the air and offered her a graveyard shift at the station, where she arrived in 1980 playing mostly jazz and blues. In 1979, she moved to Los Angeles, where she fell in at two more freeform stations, KKGO and KPPC. After two more years (1975-1977), she arrived in Dallas, where she spent her most commercial period hosting at adult contemporary station KMGC.
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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