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 edit

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 – Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) is founded and takes over responsibility for public-service radio broadcasting in the German language in Belgium.
March 5 - President Jimmy Carter participates with Walter Cronkite in the Dial-a-President radio program on CBS.
May 12 - WTIC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut switches from 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 - CKO (a Canadian all news radio network) 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."

No dates edit

KSTP-FM in St. Paul, Minnesota adopts its long-running soft rock format.

Debuts edit

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 edit

29 May: NBC Radio's all-news "News and Information Service" ceases operations, citing a low number of affiliates. Most stations switch to different formats, but KQV in Pittsburgh launched a locally based production for its all-news format, which it maintains to the present day.

Births edit

September 3 - DJ Envy, American DJ and host of The Breakfast Club
November - Heidi Cortez, American model, writer, and radio host

Deaths edit

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 edit

^ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-09-27.

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[dunningota-1] Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-09-27.

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