Ken Freedman (born February 18, 1959) is general manager of WFMU, a freeform and independent radio station.
He served as station manager of WCBN-FM, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor's freeform outlet, where he marked the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan by playing Lesley Gore's "It's My Party" for eighteen consecutive hours.
[2][better source needed] In December 1983, he joined WFMU as a DJ and succeeded Bruce Longstreet as general manager in August 1985.
[citation needed] At the time, WFMU was licensed to and owned by Upsala College, and based in East Orange, New Jersey.
[citation needed] In 1992, he founded the non-profit organization Auricle Communications, which purchased WFMU's license from Upsala in 1994 one year prior to the college's bankruptcy in 1995.