- 1984 in radio
The year
1984 in radio involved some significant events.__TOC__Events
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June 18 - Controversial KOA/Denver radiotalk show hostAlan Berg gunned down in driveway of his home.
* Sports writerRalph Barbieri joinedKNBR to host his own sportstalk show .
* In October, CKLW-AM inWindsor, Ontario , the former "Big 8" Top 40 giant plagued by falling ratings for years, fires 79 staffers and goes mostly automated in preparation for a format change toMusic of Your Life on January 1, 1985. CKLW's FM sister station CFXX experiments with a Top 40/Rock hybrid format called "94 Fox FM" in some dayparts, but its application to make "The Fox" a full-time format is denied by the CRTC and the experiment lasts only a few months.Debuts
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Jim Bannon , 73, actor in radio andHollywood western films during the 1940s and 1950s.
*Alan Berg , 50,Denver, Colorado -based liberal radio talk show host and former attorney.
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