1971 in radio

The year 1971 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

• 2 January: A ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States.
• 3 January: Open University begins broadcasts on the BBC in the United Kingdom.
• 5 January: FIP (France Inter Paris) begins broadcasting from Paris on 514 m (585 kHz). ^[1]
• 19 January: Moscow Radio broadcasts criticism of the Sultan of Oman in Arabic. One of the accusations against him is that he allowed the setting up of a radio station called "Voice of the Free South" in opposition to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. ^[2]
• 14 February: All of ABC Radio's FM stations change call letters, all on the same day:
  • WABC-FM in New York becomes WPLJ, for White Port & Lemon Juice.
  • KABC-FM in Los Angeles becomes KLOS, for Los Angeles.
  • KGO-FM in San Francisco becomes KSFX, for San Francisco (now KOSF).
  • KQV-FM in Pittsburgh becomes WDVE, for a D o V E, the symbol of peace.
  • WXYZ-FM in Detroit becomes WRIF, for a guitar "R I F F" (legend goes that the calls were meant for WLS-FM to symbolize the cities' jazz scene).
  • WLS-FM in Chicago becomes WDAI (supposedly meant for WXYZ-FM to celebrate the Detroit Auto Industry; it had no meaning in Chicago).
  • KXYZ-FM in Houston becomes KAUM (today KHMX), meaning "Aumm", in Meditation terms; corresponding to Hippie meditative actions.
• 20 February: The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning; many radio stations just ignore it, while WOWO in Fort Wayne takes it seriously and interrupts programming for 20 minutes.
• 2 March: 8HA is launched in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
• 18 March: Prambors FM is launched in Jakarta, Indonesia.
• 26 March: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares Bangladesh's independence in a radio message. ^[3]
• 1 April: Bayern 3, a public radio station owned and operated by Bayerischer Rundfunk, is launched in West Germany.
• 10 May: Members of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) interrupt a live radio broadcast on France's RTL, in which controversial presenter Menie Grégoire is introducing a phone-in on the subject of homosexuality. ^[4]
• 24 May: U.S. Senator Clifford Case introduces Senate Bill 18, to remove funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from the CIA's budget. ^[5]
• 15 July: DXDB Radyo Bandilyo, an AM radio station owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malaybalay, is launched in the Philippines. ^[6]
• 19 September: MBC FM4U, South Korea's second FM station, is launched.
• 2 November: Radio Waikato begins broadcasting in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 954 kHz AM. ^[7]
• 19 November: Triple M Central Coast begins broadcasting from Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, under the name 2GO.
• December: WNBC in New York lures Don Imus and his Imus in the Morning program away from WGAR (AM) in Cleveland (now WHKW); WGAR replaces him with fellow shock jock John Lanigan.
• date unknown
  • Radio Malaysia becomes the first radio station in Malaysia to broadcast 24 hours a day, nationwide.
  • The FM- and TV-mast Helsinki-Espoo, the third highest structure in Finland, begins transmission.
  • WLOL-FM and KSJN, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota, participate in "quadcast" (quadraphonic) experiments.
  • Sergiu Celibidache becomes conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra. ^[8]
  • David McCallum Sr. ends his tenure as leader of Mantovani's orchestra.

Debuts

• January 18 – La Case Trésor, presented by Guy Lux, is broadcast for the first time in France (runs until 1976).
• May 3 - All Things Considered , NPR's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
• October – Odd Grythe begins hosting Husker du..., an entertainment show for the elderly, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. ^[9]
• November 7 – WCCI-FM in Savanna, Illinois signs on at 100.1 FM. The station will later move to 100.3 FM.
• December – KOEL-FM, licensed to Oelwein, Iowa, signs on the air at 92.3 FM. Its initial format is country music.
• date unknown
  • Bill Ballance begins hosting the Feminine Forum radio show on KGBS in Los Angeles
  • The Music of the NOW Man is launched on the American Forces Network in the Far East. ^[10]
  • KRWC 1360 AM in Buffalo, MN signs on for the first time.

Births

• January 9 – Angie Martinez, American radio personality
• January 20 – Pixie McKenna, Irish doctor, radio and TV presenter
• April 16
  • High Pitch Eric, member of the Wack Pack from radio's The Howard Stern Show
  • Selena, US Latin singer and radio personality (died 1995)
• May 20 – Chris Booker, American radio and television personality.
• May – Frank Brinsley, host of The Frank Show
• June 10 – Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio presenter
• June 23 – Alan Cox, American comedian and radio personality, currently on WMMS in Cleveland, Ohio
• July 21 – Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
• July 30 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and talk show host
• August 23 – Hugh Douglas, former NFL player, regular personality on Philadelphia sports radio station WIP
• August 26 – Thalía, Mexican singer, actress and radio presenter
• October 13 – Billy Bush, radio personality, co-host of TV show Access Hollywood , first cousin of George W. Bush
• October 20 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer and radio presenter ^[11]
• December 17 – Alan Khan, South African radio DJ

Deaths

• January 7 – Richard Kollmar, 60, actor and Broadway producer. ^[12]
• January 13 – Henri Tomasi, 69, French composer and conductor, one of the first radio conductors and a pioneer of "radiophonic" music
• March 16 – Bebe Daniels, 70, US actress, writer, producer and radio personality ( Life with the Lyons ) ^[13]
• July 6 – Louis Armstrong, 69, African-American jazz musician, actor, singer, radio and TV personality ^[14]
• July 11 – Carleton G. Young, 64, American radio and television actor
• October 3 – Seán Ó Riada, 40, Irish composer, former music director at Radio Éireann and presenter of Our Musical Heritage ^[15]

References

1. Brochand, Christian, Histoire générale de la radio et de la télévision en France, tome 2, Paris, Documentation française, 1994, p. 379
2. Problems of Communism. Special Materials Section, United States Information Agency. 1972. p. 37.
3. Dr. Hemant Kumar Pandey & Manish Raj Singh (1 August 2017). India's Major Military & Rescue Operations. Horizon Books (A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd). p. 125. ISBN   978-93-86369-39-0.
4. John Mowitt (7 December 2011). Radio: Essays in Bad Reception. University of California Press. pp. 105–6. ISBN   978-0-520-95007-8.
5. United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations (1971). Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: Hearing Before ... 92-1 on S. 18, and S. 1936, May 24, 1971. p. 24.
6. Diocese of Malaybalay
7. The New Zealand Official Year-book. Government Printer. 1984. p. 268.
8. Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 148. ISBN   978-0-674-37299-3.
9. Dahl, Hans Fredrik. "Odd Grythe". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
10. John Eliot Groh (1986). Air Force Chaplains, 1971-1980. Office, Chief of Air Force Chaplains. p. 238.
11. Destra Media. "Dannii Minogue". Trove/NLA. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
12. Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN   978-0-7864-3848-8.
13. Donnelley, Paul (November 1, 2005). Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries. Omnibus Press. p. 301. ISBN   978-1-84449-430-9.
14. Meckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.
15. Sean Williams; Lillis Ó Laoire (14 April 2011). Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man. OUP USA. p. 30. ISBN   978-0-19-532118-0.