The year 1962 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
May 19 –
XHDL-FM begins broadcasting on 98.5 FM in
Mexico City under the name XELA-FM.[1]
July – After its first few months on the air with a community format,
KHAK (98.1 FM) in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, takes up a
country music format at the station, a format that has remained intact to this day.
In Sweden,
Sveriges Radio begins trial broadcasts in preparation for the establishment of a third national channel – P3 – as an alternative to commercial pirate radio.
November 22 –
Steve DeOssie, American sportscaster, former
NFL player
December 12 –
Mike Golic, American football player and radio host
Deaths
February 17 –
Joseph Kearns, 55, American radio and television actor
October 2 –
Frank Lovejoy, 50, American radio and television actor
December 7 –
Kirsten Flagstad, 67, Norwegian soprano whose nationwide personal appeals to radio listeners during Saturday matinee intermissions raised money for the Metropolitan Opera.[4]
December 31 –
Bella Alten, 85, Polish-born operatic soprano who gave concerts and radio broadcasts until 1936
^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.
^Vogt, Howard: Flagstad: Singer of the Century (Specker and Warburg, London, 1987)
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