The radio station broadcast from 4285 Olive in Gaslight Square in the center of St. Louis, an area, according to Leonard Slatkin, where "the majority of nightlife used to be concentrated, but [by] the late ’60s had [been] reduced ... to a set of run-down and decrepit buildings".
He goes on to write, "KDNA was busted a couple of times for drugs and violating all sorts of building and FCC codes.
[3] The historical preservationist and architectural salvager Larry Giles volunteered for a time at the station, broadcasting lectures and interviews with artistic and political guests.
One of KDNA's staff members, Mike O'Connor, went on to co-found in 1975 WORT, a non-NPR community radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, that continues to this day.
[4] KDNA selected FM radio when it was still newer technology and was not desired commercially, and it was therefore relatively cheap to obtain the widely open band space.