1965 in radio

The year 1965 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Events

• 19 April: WINS (AM) in New York switches from Top 40 to all-news, with the slogan "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
• 19 June: After a multi-year courtroom battle which involved
  Philadelphia to Cleveland in 1956, and back to Philadelphia with the reversal, with NBC renaming the Cleveland stations WKYC AM/FM/TV
  .
• 18 August: Marlene Dietrich appears in "The Child" for BBC radio.
• 21 September:
  Philadelphia, institutes an all-news format patterned after WINS (AM)
  .
• 11 October: The Dutch popular-music channel Hilversum 3 (now
  3FM
  ) begins broadcasting.
• 12 December: New owner Westchester Broadcasting changes the call letters of WDOK (AM) in
  Cleveland to WIXY, installing a Top 40 format (today known as WCCR). Their FM sister station retains the WDOK calls and beautiful music
  format.

• Oklahoma City with a Beautiful Music
  format.

• 16 May: Cross Country Checkup debuts on CBC Radio
• 4 October: Long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme The World at One begins on the BBC Home Service (now BBC Radio 4).

Deaths

• 20 January: Alan Freed, 47, American disc jockey.^[1]
• 27 April: Edward R. Murrow, 57, American news broadcaster.
• 22 May: Christopher Stone, 82, pioneering English disc jockey.
• 13 December: M. R. DeHaan, 74, American Bible teacher, pastor, author and physician, founder of Radio Bible Class.

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