August 28 – US radio station WAKS/Tampa flips formats from Top 40/CHR to hot AC as "Mix 100.7";[7] the station assumes the WMTX calls, while the WAKS calls are transferred to the former WZLE/Lorain.[6]
October 4 – Clear Channel announces a nearly $23.5 billion merger with AMFM, creating America's largest radio group. The deal would close the following year after selling off surplus in multiple markets. This would be the largest broadcast deal in American history, a record that would stand until Clear Channel itself was bought out by private equity in 2007.
April 17 – The Mutual Broadcasting System name was retired by owner Westwood One, with remaining affiliates switching to CNN Radio in a deal with Turner Broadcasting. On that same day, "NBC Radio"-branded newscasts (by this point, "Mutual" and "NBC" newscasts were produced and anchored by CBS Radio personnel) were also limited only to 5 a.m. – 10 a.m. on weekday mornings, with CNN Radio newscasts airing at all other times.
Deaths
January 11 – Frank Parker, 95, American singer and television personality[10]
January 30 – Ed Herlihy, 89, American radio and television announcer for NBC[10]
April 16 – Regis Cordic, 72, American radio personality and actor
May 9 – Shirley Dinsdale, 72, American ventriloquist and television and radio personality of the 1940s and early 1950s
December 15 – George Elrick, 95 Scottish bandleader and DJ
Laure Leprieur (Madame Leprieur d'Agon-Coutainville), c.80, French radio quiz-setter[11]
Ted Mallie, 74, American radio and television announcer
1 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. ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
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