- 1955 in radio
The year
1955 saw a number of significant events inradio broadcasting .__TOC__Events
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2 May - Opening at Wrotham,Kent , of theUnited Kingdom 's firstVHF /FM transmitters.
*22 September – The characterGrace Archer dies in theBBC radio serial "The Archers ", a spoiler for the launch ofITV on the same day.
*17 November – Creation of the Communauté des radios publiques de langue française (CRPLF) - an association of the French-language public broadcasters ofFrance ,Switzerland ,Belgium , andCanada , later to become, in 2002, les Radios francophones publiques (RFP).Debuts
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June 12 – "Monitor" debuts onNBC Radio .Closings
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March 10 – "The Silver Eagle " broadcasts its last episode.
*March 23 – "The Big Story" ends its run onNBC .
*May 22 – "The Jack Benny Program " airs its last radio episode and moves solely to television.
*June 7 –Lux Radio Theater ends its run onCBS .Births
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February 10 -Jim Cramer , American television personality, formerhedge fund manager and best-selling author.
*February 23 -Tom Bodett , American author, voice actor, radio host and current spokesman for the hotel chainMotel 6 .
*October 4 -Dale Connelly , co-host (withTom Keith , a.k.a. Jim Ed Poole) of "The Morning Show" onMinnesota Public Radio .Deaths
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