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Steve Post (20 March – 3 August ) was an American freeform radio artist and the author of Playing in the FM Band.^[1][2]

Early life

Post, born in the Bronx, became fascinated by radio at about the age of 8 or 10, recording 'broadcasts' on his father's Webcor tape recorder, using names such as Paige Turner.

Upon his mother's death of cancer, when Post was 10, he was sent for a time to a boarding school in New Jersey. An indifferent student, by his own account, he eventually graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.^[3][4]

Career

Post was a pioneer and a trailblazer in freeform radio at WBAI-FM in New York in the late s and early s.

Bob Fass, drawing his inspiration from Jean Shepherd, initially transformed and redefined the form and its possibilities, and Fass, Post, and Larry Josephson, a sort of informal, free-floating, quasi-magical creative triumvirate, then pushed the possibilities significantly further in the arti