October 8 – The
BBC Home Service in the United Kingdom first broadcasts In Touch; the world's first national radio programme for people who are blind;[3] it will still be running in 2021.
April 12 –
WLKW/990-Providence, Rhode Island signs on as Rhode Island's only 50 kW A.M. station.
June 25 –
WPLM-FM/99.1-Plymouth, Massachusetts signs on.
KHAK-AM and
KHAK-FM,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sign on at 1360 AM and 98.1 FM, respectively. Although formatting
country music, neither station is exclusively country until some point later in 1960s.