Stephen Capen

Stephen Capen
Stephen Capen
Born	Stephen Harold Capen; February 28, 1946; Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	September 12, 2005 (aged 59); Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s)	(1) Mary Alice Doyle (deceased) (married 1967, divorced 1971); (2) March Dahmer (a.k.a. Geraldine "Jeri" Dahmer) (married 1971, Divorced 1975)
Children	Melissa Jane (58); unnamed child (57); Stephen Harold (57); Ami-Beth (55); Samuel Charles (49); Charles Christopher [1] (43); James Fitzgerald (40)
Parent(s)	Hobart Ashley Capen (deceased); Mary Ann Morgan (deceased)
	Career
Station(s)	WAAB; KFRC; KMEL; KSAN (AM); KSAN (FM); KSFX (FM); KYLD; KSOL; WBZ (AM); WFFG (FM); KVON; KVYN; KFOG
Style	DJ; Comedian
Previous show	Futurist Radio Hour

Stephen Harold Capen (February 28, 1946 - September 12, 2005) was an American Radio announcer and disc jockey whose humor found favor with audiences in several major cities but particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the mid-1960s, he began his radio career in Caribou, Maine.

Biography

Early life

Capen, the second of four children, was born in Brockton, Massachusetts to Hobart Ashley Capen and Mary Capen (née Morgan).

Education

Graduating from Rockland High School in 1964, Capen received his B.A. at Antioch College and M.A. at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California.

Career

The 60's & 70's

WFST in Caribou, ME ('65 - '66).
WBZA in Glens Falls, NY ('66 - '67).
WAAB in Worcester, MA ('67 - '68).
WDRC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut ('69).
WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut ('69 -'70).
WGLD in Chicago, IL (Afternoons, '70-'71)
CJOM in Windsor, Ontario (Detroit market) ('70-'72).
WNCR in Cleveland, Ohio ('72-'76).
WCOZ in Boston, Massachusetts ('76-'79).

The 80's

KSAN-FM in San Francisco, CA in ('80 - '81) - (Last year of its pioneering 12-year run as a progressive rock station before it switched to a country format).
KSFX (FM) in San Francisco, CA ('81 - '82) - "Rock N Stereo" (with Rosie Allen).
KMEL in San Francisco, CA ('84 - '85).
WXRK (K-Rock) in New York City, New York ('88 - '89) - Hosted the afternoon drive-time slot that had been vacated by Howard Stern when Stern moved to mornings and began national syndication of his show.

1990s

Capen resisted the media-merger consolidation of radio stations and developed alternative interests in psychology, photography and travel, writing for publications including San Francisco magazine, The Village Voice, the Pacific Sun, Shambhala Sun, Writer's Digest, and LensWork Quarterly, lecturing at the University of San Francisco and California State University, Hayward, and making pilgrimages to Cuba, China, Greece, and the mountains of Peru. He filed occasional broadcast reports for CBS News Radio and its affiliated network of stations, reported news for KVON/KVYN-FM in Napa, California, and, in his final radio work in July 2004, commentaries from Boston's 2004 Democratic National Convention for CBS all-news affiliate KNX (AM) in Los Angeles, California.

KFOG in San Francisco, CA ('92 - '93).
KDBK in San Francisco, CA ('93 - '94).
KUSF in San Francisco, CA ('93 - '97) - "The Futurist Radio Hour" - Interviews with Alan Arkin, Paulo Coelho, Amanda Plummer, James Hillman, Paul Theroux, China Galland, Isabel Fonseca, Christopher Hitchens.
KVON/KVYN-FM in Napa, California ('98-'00).

Death

Capen died Monday, September 12, 2005 in Plymouth, Massachusetts of lung cancer. He was 59 years old.

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