1992 in radio

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The year 1992 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

January -
Rhythmic CHR
.
January 15 - AC-formatted KZOL/Salt Lake City flips to modern rock as KXRK
January 22 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
February -
Hot adult contemporary
. In addition, the station rebrands from "Mojo Radio" to the current "95-5 PLJ."
February 12 - Washington, D.C. area Top 40 radio station WAVA-FM changes to a religious format, which continues to this day.
February 18 - After over two decades as
Hot AC
as "Variety 104.3."
February 18 - The "Young Country" format debuts with KRSR 105.3 in Dallas dropping its hot AC format to become KRRM. The KRRM calls stood for "The Armadillo," but were just a placeholder for the KYNG calls, which it would acquire from a station in Coos Bay, Oregon.
February 21 -
ABC-5 radio station "Kool 106
" (later 106.7 Dream FM) launched.

October 26 – WAPW/Atlanta flips from CHR to Modern rock as "99X".
November 1 – KOAI/Dallas-Fort Worth drops its smooth jazz format as "106.1 The Oasis" to bring top-40 back to the market as KHKS "106.1 Kiss FM." (KEGL had left the format in the summer.) In response, KCDU "CD 107.5" switched from
Smooth Jazz
a day later, picking up the KOAI call letters and "Oasis" moniker and firing PD Gary Reynolds, who had been hired just two weeks earlier.
November 9 - WIBF/Philadelphia flipped from ethnic to modern rock as "WDRE".
Late November - WHTE-FM's new branding went live and became 101.9 FM in the Charlottesville, Virginia Area.
December 25 -
KQLZ/Los Angeles drops their "Pirate Radio" branding, and the album rock format, for modern rock
as "100.3 FM."

Undated - An appearance by survivor Christine Buckley on The Gay Byrne Show on RTÉ Radio 1 in the Irish Republic to discuss industrial schools brings an "overwhelming response" from others who feel they were victims of physical and emotional abuse in these institutions.^[1]

January 4 —
GameNight
.
April — Country Countdown USA, a countdown program spotlighting the top 30 songs of the week, as reported by Radio & Records magazine. The show is hosted by Lon Helton, country editor for R&R, and features an in-studio interview with a currently popular country music singer or act.
October 10 – Billboard reintroduces the Crossover chart publishing its last chart after nearly 22 months. This time it is renamed the Top 40/Rhythm-Crossover chart, which would later be christened as the
Rhythmic Contemporary
chart in 1997.

December 30 – English service of
Radio Luxembourg
closes down after 59 years of broadcasting.

February 2 - Bert Parks, American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer (born 1914)^[2]
February 4 - John Dehner, American actor in radio, television, and films (born 1915)^[2]
February 15 -
KESS
and Cuban entrepreneur (65)
March 18 - Ed Prentiss, American actor in radio, perhaps best known for portraying the title role on the radio version of Captain Midnight (born 1909?)^[3]
May 17 - Lawrence Welk, American musician, radio and television personality (born 1903)
July 9 - Eric Sevareid, American news reporter (born 1912)
October 16 - Shirley Booth, award-winning American actress and radio personality (born 1898)

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