Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue, was a pioneering rock and roll radio disc jockey (DJ). Donahue's career started 1949 on the east coast of the U.S. at WTIP in South Carolina and continuing at WIBG in Philadelphia and WINX in Maryland, before moving to San Francisco in 1961 after the payola scandal involving Alan Freed and Dick Clark. Donahue re-invented himself, first as a DJ at Top Forty station KYA (now KOIT) in San Francisco, and then to run a record label, … Wikipedia
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