April –
WDLM, a religious station based in
East Moline, Illinois, adds an FM signal at 89.3 MHz. It acts as both a repeater of WDLM's
AM signal (at 960 AM, which has been on the air since 1960) and adds additional programming.
Alex Bennett returns to his native San Francisco to host a comedy-oriented morning show for
album-oriented rock station
KMEL. The show will last for the next 17 years on three different area radio stations.
Closings
11 February – Sears Radio Theater ends its run on
CBS. Episodes are rebroadcast later in 1980 on
Mutual as Mutual Radio Theater.[1]
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abcCox, 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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