Significant events in radio broadcasting in the year 1969 included the debuts of two documentaries on
rock and roll.
Events
21–23 February: The History of Rock and Roll, a comprehensive 48-part documentary, debuts on
KHJ in Los Angeles. Produced and hosted by
Bill Drake, the series airs on the
RKO General chain of stations that Drake programmed, and is nationally syndicated.
9 March: With the exception of Arthur Godfrey Time,
WTOP in Washington, DC switches to an all-news format.
11 April:
Radyo Veritas, the first Catholic radio station in the
Philippines, was inaugurated with Asian bishops as guests. Antonio Cardinal Samore represented Pope Paul VI. It began broadcasting on the frequency of 860 kHz, formerly assigned to DZST, another Catholic radio station formerly operated by the
University of Santo Tomas.
15 June:
DZME 1530 started its broadcast when the Congress authorized Capitol Broadcasting Center of Jose M. Luison and Sons, Inc. to operate an AM radio station in the Philippines.
November: The National Science Network, Inc. purchased
KMPX (FM) in San Francisco, and
KPPC (AM) and KPPC-FM in
Pasadena from Crosby-Pacific Broadcasting Company for a combined $1,084,000.
Undated
WSAU-FM in
Wausau, Wisconsin changes to
Top 40 as
WIFC, and continues with those calls and format nearly 40 years later.
31 January –
Craig Carton, American radio personality, co-host of
Boomer Esiason's morning show on
WFAN in New York City, which became the permanent replacement for Imus in the Morning on 4 September 2007.
^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.
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