1976 in radio

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The year 1976 in radio involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• September - Fairchild Industries sells WYOO-FM and AM in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The AM becomes WAYL and the FM station becomes a simulcast of KDWB
• KXOL in Dallas, Texas flips from Top 40 to country music

[edit] Debuts

• March 8 - Radio 210 (now 2-Ten FM) begins broadcasting to the Reading area.^[1]
• March 16 - Downtown Radio, the first Independent Local Radio in Northern Ireland, begins broadcasting to the Belfast area.^[1]
• April 12 - Beacon Radio (was Beacon Radio, Beacon Radio 303) begins broadcasting to the Wolverhampton area; this is the final station in the first wave of Independent Local Radio stations to begin transmission.^[1]

[edit] Closings

[edit] Births

• October 21 - Lindsay Brien, American radio personality in Atlanta, Georgia, entertainment reporter for Headline News, and part of MTV's The Real World Seattle season in 1998.
• December 21 - Clarence Black, Detroit, Michigan sports radio personality and contestant on Survivor Africa.
• Brody, American radio personality on WDGC-FM in Raleigh, North Carolina

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References