1977 in radio
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In the year 1977, significant events in radio broadcasting included the President of the United States participating in a call-in radio program.
Events
- January – WRSQ-FM (104.9) signs on the air in Geneseo, Illinois, United States, as a sister station to WGEN-AM (1500 AM). The station's first call letters are short-lived, as the station will quickly adopt the callsign WGEN-FM. The initial format is country music with a community focus.
- February 18 – public-service radio broadcasting in the German languagein Belgium.
- March 5 - President Jimmy Carter participates with Walter Cronkite in the Dial-a-President radio program on CBS.
- May 12 - classical music to a new Top 40 format designed by consultant Mike Joseph. This successful new approach will later be termed Hot Hits.
- July 1 - news radionetwork) begins broadcasting.
- August 16 - Radio and television stations nationwide interrupt regular programming to report the death of Elvis Presley.
- September 1 -- Dave Lingafelt begins airing "The Whacky Wake Up Crew" on WNNC-AM in Newton, North Carolina. He has been on the air for more than 35 years and has since purchased another AM station as well as 95.7 WXRC "The Ride."
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- St. Paul, Minnesota adopts its long-running soft rockformat.
Debuts
- 5 February: Adventure Theater (a children's program, not to be confused with Adventure Theater, a 1956 anthology series on NBC) debuts on CBS.[1]
Closings
- 29 May: Pittsburghlaunched a locally based production for its all-news format, which it maintains to the present day.
Births
- September 3 - DJ Envy, American DJ and host of The Breakfast Club
- November - Heidi Cortez, American model, writer, and radio host
Deaths
- February 17 - Quincy Howe, 76, American radio broadcast journalist
- April 15 - Bud Ballou, 34, American radio disc jockey
- May 2 - Sid Collins, 55, American broadcaster best known as the radio voice of the Indianapolis 500 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network from 1952 to 1976
- June 14 - Alan Reed, 70, American actor
- October 14 - Bing Crosby, 74, American singer, actor and early radio personality
- November 8 - Ted Ray, 71, English comedian
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
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