Background
Capen, the second of four children, was born in Brockton, Massachusetts to Hobart Ashley Capen and Mary Capen (née Morgan).
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Stephen Capen
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Graduating from Rockland High School in 1964, Capen received his Bachelor of Arts at Antioch College and Master of Arts at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California.
Career
In the mid-1960s, he began his radio career in Caribou, Maine. Education = The 60"s & 70"s WFST in Caribou, Master of Engineering ("65 - "66).WBZA in Glens Falls, New York ("66 - "67).WAAB in Worcester, Master of Arts ("67 - "68).WDRC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut ("69).WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut ("69 -"70).WGLD in Chicago, Illinois (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, California 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, California ("81 - "82) - "Rock North Stereo" (with Rosie Allen).KMEL in San Francisco, California ("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 Columbia Broadcasting System 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 Columbia Broadcasting System all-news affiliate KNX (Department of Administration and Management) in Los Angeles, California. KFOG in San Francisco, California ("92 - "93).
KDBK in San Francisco, California ("93 - "94). KUSF in San Francisco, California ("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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