15 April – In New York City,
Les Keiter, sports director of
WINS (AM), begins coverage of
San Francisco Giants games, just
months after the team has moved out of New York City to the West Coast. His "live-action" commentaries are so vivid that many listeners never realize that Les is merely staging a re-creation of the games from
Western Uniontelegraph reports received in WINS' New York studios (a throwback to 1930s radio coverage of baseball games) and never sets foot in
Seals Stadium. WINS will carry Giants games in the same manner next year.
8 July – Gordon McLendon of Dallas buys WGRC Louisville, converts it to Top 40 legend WAKY.
14 July – John F. Box Jr., president of the Balaban group, buys
KGKO and changes the station's call letters to KBOX, adopting a
Top 40 format to compete with
Gordon McLendon's top-rated
1190KLIF.
Debuts
January – Pete Myers, with his frenetic, rapid-fire "Mad Daddy" persona, delivered entirely in rhyme, debuts on WJW (AM) in Cleveland (today
WKNR). His evening show has a brief run (he leaves WJW in May). After a 90-day non-compete clause is enforced, Myers joins cross-town
WHK, coining phrases that are still uttered to this day, such as "wavy gravy" and "mellow jello".
4 March –
WDCR/1340-Hanover, New Hampshire (Dartmouth College Radio) begins broadcasting at 21:00 Eastern Standard Time.
18 May –
Elmer Davis, 68, American news reporter, author, and a Peabody Award recipient[1]
References
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abcdCox, 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.