1976 in radio

The year 1976 in radio involved some significant events.__TOC__

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

Debuts

* March 8 - Radio 210 (now 2-Ten FM) begins broadcasting to the Reading area. [ [http://www.transdiffusion.org/rmc/reference/ilrdates.php Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors)] ; accessed 28 April 2008]
* March 16 - Downtown Radio, the first Independent Local Radio in Northern Ireland, begins broadcasting to the Belfast area. [ [http://www.transdiffusion.org/rmc/reference/ilrdates.php Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors)] ; accessed 28 April 2008]
* 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. [ [http://www.transdiffusion.org/rmc/reference/ilrdates.php Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors)] ; accessed 28 April 2008]

Closings

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

Deaths

References