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In the year 1977, significant events in radio broadcasting included the President of the United States participating in a call-in radio program.

Events

January – WRSQ-FM (104.9) signs on the air in Geneseo, Illinois, United States, as a sister station to WGEN-AM (1500 AM). The station's first call letters are short-lived, as the station will quickly adopt the callsign WGEN-FM. The initial format is country music with a community focus.
February 18 – Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) is founded and takes over responsibility for public-service radio broadcasting in the German language in Belgium.
March 5 - President Jimmy Carter participates with Walter Cronkite in the Dial-a-President radio program on CBS.
May 12 - WTIC-FM in Hartford, Connecticut switches from classical music to a new Top 40 format designed by consultant Mike Joseph. This successful new approach will later be termed Hot Hits.
July 1 - CKO (a Canadian all news radio network) begins broadcasting.
August 16 - Radio and television stations nationwide interrupt regular programming to report the death of Elvis Presley.
September 1 -- Dave Lingafelt begins airing "The Whacky Wake Up Crew" on WNNC-AM in Newton, North Carolina. He has been on the air for more than 35 years and has since purchased another AM station as well as 95.7 WXRC "The Ride."

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KSTP-FM in St. Paul, Minnesota adopts its long-running soft rock format.

Debuts

5 February: Adventure Theater (a children's program, not to be confused with Adventure Theater , a 1956 anthology series on NBC) debuts on CBS.^[1]

Closings

29 May: NBC Radio's all-news "News and Information Service" ceases operations, citing a low number of affiliates. Most stations switch to different formats, but KQV in Pittsburgh launched a locally based production for its all-news format, which it maintains to the present day.

Births

September 3 - DJ Envy, American DJ and host of The Breakfast Club
November - Heidi Cortez, American model, writer, and radio host

Deaths

February 17 - Quincy Howe, 76, American radio broadcast journalist
April 15 - Bud Ballou, 34, American radio disc jockey
May 2 - Sid Collins, 55, American broadcaster best known as the radio voice of the Indianapolis 500 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network from 1952 to 1976
June 14 - Alan Reed, 70, American actor
October 14 - Bing Crosby, 74, American singer, actor and early radio personality
November 8 - Ted Ray, 71, English comedian

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References

↑ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3 . Retrieved 2019-09-27.

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[dunningota-1] Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3 . Retrieved 2019-09-27.

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