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The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2024. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, station launches, closures, and format changes, as well as information about controversies and deaths of radio personalites.
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1 | DWOW-Mandaluyong City, a station in the Philippines, branding as All Radio 103.5, is officially launched as a Soft AC Format. | |
4 | KTFS/940-Texarkana, Texas, switches from its gospel format to sports as ESPN Radio. This change brings ESPN Radio back to the market after the former KTRG’s license was returned to the F.C.C. for cancellation on November 8, 2023. | [1] |
13 | Philippine Collective Media Corporation (PCMC) officially relaunches the FMR brand as "FM Radio". Coinciding with the relaunch, DYWF-Cebu returns on-air; this time branded as "FM Radio 93.1", to be operated by PCMC. | [ citation needed ] |
21 | Canadian broadcaster Meredith Shaw launches the Sunday morning program The Feel Good Brunch on CHFI-FM — Toronto and other adult contemporary radio stations owned by Rogers Radio across Canada. | [2] |
29 | The Canadian CBC Radio One network rebrands its national 6 p.m. newscast from The World at Six to Your World Tonight . | [3] |
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5 | Manila Broadcasting Company in the Philippines reverts from the FM radio brand Yes the Best to its original name Yes! FM. | [ citation needed ] |
6 | Linda Wertheimer announces her retirement from NPR after 53 years with the American public radio network. | [4] |
8 | iHeartRadio Canada, the radio division of Bell Media, announces the divestiture of 45 stations in rural and smaller markets, constituting nearly half of its station count, stating that the business of small market radio was failing. The stations will be split up among multiple, mostly independent, broadcasters. | [5] [6] |
24 | CBC Radio One in Canada introduces Just Asking , a Saturday afternoon call-in show hosted by Saroja Coelho. | [7] |
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31 | BBC Radio 4 stops broadcasting opt-outs on longwave and will permanently simulcast the FM service until the longwave transmitters get turned off for good. | [8] |
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9 | Local community station The Voice 2 begins broadcasting on DAB digital radio in North Devon, UK. | [9] |
15 | BBC Radio 4 turns off its mediumwave transmitters forever after they served as LW relays for areas with a weak LW signal. | [10] |
CBS Sports Radio rebrands as Infinity Sports Network, resurrecting the Infinity brand used by one of the predecessors to its owner, Audacy, Inc. The move comes four years after the originally planned expiration of a licensing agreement with CBS Sports. Audacy and CBS issued cease and desist orders to all Infinity affiliates to stop any further use of the CBS brand. | [11] | |
In Manila, Philippines, DWAV – broadcasting as Wave 89.1 – quietly made its final broadcast, and Adventist Media took over the station's operations, effectively reformatted as AWR Manila 89.1. | [12] | |
In Davao, Philippines, Brigada News FM transferred its broadcast from 91.5 (owned by Primax Broadcasting) to 93.1 (owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network). | [ citation needed ] | |
22 | Asian Sound Radio gets merged into Lyca Radio after they acquired Lyca Media acquired Asian Sound's license. Lyca Radio expands their mediumwave transmissions into Greater Manchester. | [13] [14] |
22 | Gow Media announces the closure of US radio network SportsMap, after 33 years of operation, with stations being switched to the betting-centric Vegas Stats & Information Network. | [15] |
30 | Gold turns off their final mediumwave transmitter in Manchester for good along with Smooth Radio's mediumwave transmitters in Kent and Hampshire. | [16] |
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5 | Genesis Communications Network ceases operations after 26 years. The broadcast syndication company, whose best-known hosts include Alex Jones and Michael Medved, will migrate its remaining programming to competing networks. | [17] |
20 | Wisconsin Public Radio realigns its statewide over-the-air services, with its "Ideas Network" and "NPR News & Music" networks retired in favor of one solely for NPR news and local and national talk programming (WPR News) and one devoted exclusively to classical and other music genres (WPR Music). | [18] |
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14 | USA Radio Network ends its hourly newscast service after several decades of operation. | [19] |
20 | DWAN-AM-Quezon City returns to operation with a full service format after 13 years of hiatus. | [20] |
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1 | Interactive Broadcast Media, owner of DWWW-Metro Manila, began operating DWHT, an FM radio station in Dagupan, Philippines; enacted as a relay station of DWWW. | [ citation needed ] |
9 | Iowa-based Coloff Media announces the purchase of Maquoketa, Iowa radio stations KMAQ (1320 AM) and KMAQ-FM (95.1 FM) from Dennis Voy. | [21] |
15 | Philippine radio station DZRH celebrates its 85th anniversary. | [ citation needed ] |
31 | Philippines radio station Mellow 94.7 under FBS Radio Network was ended for the past 51 years. | |
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14 | One month short of the station's 97th anniversary, owner Corus Entertainment suddenly shuts down CHML/Hamilton, Ontario. | [22] |
26 | Good Karma Brands moves New York City's ESPN Radio affiliation, which has been at FM 98.7 since 2012, to AM 880, changing its call letters to WHSQ. The move comes due to the end of Good Karma's local marketing agreement with 98.7 licensee Emmis Communications at the end of the month, with Good Karma striking a new LMA with WHSQ's owner Audacy, the owner of ESPN's rival WFAN. The move ends a 57-year run for 880 as New York's all-news radio station, and the end of the station's 96-year run as CBS Radio Network's flagship station, 78 of those years under the call sign WCBS. WCBS's remaining programming merged onto its sister station and erstwhile rival WINS beginning August 26. | [23] |
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7 | Westwood One will return its Saturday night classic country request program Country Gold, which has been on-air since the early 1990s, to its previous format with a professional radio disc jockey as host, as Steve Harmon takes over the program. For the previous 12 years, Country Gold (previously Country Gold Saturday Night) had been hosted by famous country musicians, as Randy Owen hosted from 2012 to 2016, followed by Terri Clark from 2016 to 2024. | [24] |
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30 | The Thistle & Shamrock , an NPR program devoted to Celtic music, will end its 43-year run as host Fiona Ritchie moves on to other endeavors. | [25] |
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