13 February –
NBC and
Westinghouse Broadcasting consummate a station ownership trade which saw NBC attaining owned-and-operated
AM and
TV stations in Philadelphia (renamed WRCV), and Westinghouse receiving NBC's
AM,
FM and
TV stations in Cleveland (all of which took the KYW callsign). A later legal battle found that NBC engaged in extortion to make the trade happen, even threatening to pull the NBC-TV affiliation off of both Westinghouse's TV stations in
Philadelphia and
Boston. The swap was reversed by the FCC in June 1965.
9 November – The
Pittsburgh Police "emergency band" frequency goes wild receiving
Cuban police dispatches and squawks from a
Sheffield, England public safety band. The transmissions are never explained but cease by nightfall.
August 15 –
WWRI-West Warwick, Rhode Island begins broadcasting.
Closings
February 4 – True or False ends its run on network radio (
Mutual)[4]
April 7 – ABC Dancing Party ends its run on network radio.[2]
June 29 – The Brighter Day ends its run on network radio (
CBS).[2]
June 30 – The Guiding Light officially ends its 19-year run on CBS radio, having spent the previous four years on both radio and television. It continues on television until September 2009.[5]
^Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.