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The year 1975 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

Events

1 January – KQV-Pittsburgh's new owner, Taft Broadcasting, hires Joey Reynolds as program director. KQV's Top 40 format is blown up, taking a bizarre, free-form approach dubbed "The Death of Radio!" Phonetically re-branded "Kay-Cue-Vee," regular newscasts are canceled, jingles are replaced with crudely produced "mingles," airplay of any Top 10 songs was avoided, daily names like "Barrel Bottom Radio," "Volkswagen Radio," "Channel 14," "AM Radio" and "Normalcy Radio" are used, and all of the deejays only said "KQV plays WAY too Much Music!" for a seven-day period, among other stunts. Reynolds, along with his hand-picked music director and morning host, are all fired in May, and the station reverts to the prior format.
July – Country music station KRRV in Dallas, Texas, becomes Top 40 KIKM.
14 October – KQV in Pittsburgh ends its longtime Top 40 format, switching to all-news with NBC Radio's News & Information Service. Billy Soule and George Hart preside over the final airshift.
30 October – The "Voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates" for close to 30 seasons and a mainstay on American clear channel, Bob Prince, is shockingly fired by Pittsburgh station KDKA-AM.
23 November – The Geneva Frequency Plan comes into effect.

Undated

BBC Radio 2 in the U.K. begins broadcasting topical radio comedy sketch show The News Huddlines starring comedian Roy Hudd. Continuing until 2001, it will become British radio’s longest-running audience comedy.
WLOL-FM in Minneapolis, Minnesota, flips from classical music to beautiful music.

Debuts

22 January: Radio Forth begins broadcasting to the Edinburgh area^[1]
19 May: Plymouth Sound begins broadcasting to the Plymouth area^[1]
18 June: The NBC Radio Network launches the "News and Information Service," an all-news format that informally replaced Monitor; clearance is obtained on most of NBC's FM stations, as well as WRC (AM) in Washington.
24 June: Radio Tees (now TFM Radio) begins broadcasting to the Stockton-on-Tees area^[1]
3 July: Radio Trent (later Trent FM and 96 Trent FM, now reverted to Trent FM) beings broadcasting to the Nottingham area^[1]
16 September: Pennine Radio (now The Pulse) begins broadcasting to the Bradford area; the station extends its coverage to Huddersfield in 1984^[1]
14 October: Radio Victory begins broadcasting to the Portsmouth area^[1]
28 October: Radio Orwell (later merged with Saxon Radio to form SGR FM) begins broadcasting to the Ipswich area^[1]

Closings

26 January: The last broadcast of NBC Radio's Monitor aired;^[2] the final two 'communicators' were Big Wilson and John Bartholomew Tucker.

Births

13 January - George Duran, American chef, television host and radio personality
11 March - Eric the Midget, member of the Wack Pack from radio's The Howard Stern Show
17 March - Ebro Darden, American DJ and host of Ebro in the Morning
31 July - Stephanie Hirst, British radio presenter
23 September - Chris Hawkins, British radio presenter
2 December - Sam Bromley, news anchor and reporter for WSAR in Fall River, Massachusetts, and WFNR/WPSK in Radford, Virginia

Deaths

3 January - Bess Johnson, c.72, American actress
12 January - Les Mitchel, 70, American radio and film producer, director and actor^[3]^[4]
3 April - Jacques Brown, 74, British radio comedy producer
28 April - Tom Donahue, 46, American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio disc jockey and freeform rock pioneer
16 May - Al Helfer, 63, American Major League Baseball announcer
5 August - James Jewell, 69, American radio actor, producer and director
10 November - William Hardcastle, 57, British radio news presenter

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors) Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine ; accessed 28 April 2008
↑ 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.
↑ Armstrong, Alice Catt (1950). Who's Who in Los Angeles County . Los Angeles, CA: Who's Who Historical Society. p. 145. ISSN 0508-6930.
↑ "Obituaries: Les Mitchel". Variety. January 22, 1975. p. 94. ProQuest 1401273197. Les Mitchel, former actor and motion picture-radio director, died Jan. 12 in Sacramento, where he had made his home since 1971. In recent years, he had been active in church work, starting in 1961 and headquartering variously in Oklahoma City, Cleveland and Alburquerque.

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[transdiffusion.org-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors) Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine ; accessed 28 April 2008

[coxotd-2] 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.

[3] Armstrong, Alice Catt (1950). Who's Who in Los Angeles County . Los Angeles, CA: Who's Who Historical Society. p. 145. ISSN 0508-6930.

[4] "Obituaries: Les Mitchel". Variety. January 22, 1975. p. 94. ProQuest 1401273197. Les Mitchel, former actor and motion picture-radio director, died Jan. 12 in Sacramento, where he had made his home since 1971. In recent years, he had been active in church work, starting in 1961 and headquartering variously in Oklahoma City, Cleveland and Alburquerque.

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