It was the 1960s description of what we now call free-form radio.

Remember that it was really free-form radio, with a lot of freedom and not much pressure on the D.J.'s.

WCBN is one of the longest-standing continuous practitioners of primarily free-form radio programming.

The show is a return to the free-form radio that they did in Santa Cruz, before The Sound of Young America became almost exclusively an interview show.

Granted, this notion sounds like the free-form radio of the 1960's, which is still practiced now and then.

Mr. Scelsa began broadcasting free-form radio on WFMU-FM, 91.1, in 1967.

It is one of very few examples of "free-form radio," as Mr. Scelsa calls it, on the commercial airwaves.

Now he has a show on WNTI - "free-form radio" - and helps organize concerts and recordings by local blues, country and bluegrass musicians.

"And in some ways it was how I developed my version of free-form radio."

Even college radio, one of the last bastions of free-form radio, became more institutionalized.