1979 in radio

none thumb | right | alt=Print ad for radio station WMMS/Cleveland | Print ad for radio station WMMS/Cleveland 1979 radio television music film The year 1979 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. Events March 25: Prokofiev's opera Maddalena receives its world premiere as a BBC Radio 3 broadcast (from a studio recording) in the UK, with Jill Gomez in the title role.Adam, Nicky Jill Gomez Who's Who in British Opera Scolar Press Aldershot 1993 September: KDWB-FM in Minneapolis, Minnesota breaks away from their Top 40 AM sister, becoming album-oriented rock as "K101". October 8-November 3: The engineers and airstaff of WCCO-AM-FM-TV go on strike. October 22: A Pittsburgh court receives a $7 million libel lawsuit from county politician Cyril Wecht over remarks the city controller made of him during a radio interview.James O'Toole Charlie Dietrich Wecht no stranger to controversy 2006-01-21 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06021/641949.stm 2007-03-03 2007-09-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20070929132818/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06021/641949.stm dead Undated: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, long time rocker KRST flips to country music, becoming the city's first FM country radio station. KRST continues playing country music. Debuts February 5: Sears Radio Theater debuts on CBS in the United States.https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22The+Sears+Radio+Theater,+dramatic+anthology%22&pg=PA603 Dunning John John Dunning (detective fiction author) On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1998 Oxford University Press New York, NY 978-0-19-507678-3 603 Revised 2019-09-27 May 31: RTÉ Radio 2 signs on the air in the Republic of Ireland as a national pop music station: "Like Clockwork" by The Boomtown Rats is the first song on air, played by Larry Gogan.http://www.rte.ie:80/2fm/infocentre/history.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080309162332/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/infocentre/history.html dead RTÉ 2fm 2008-03-09 Rte.ie 2026-06-21 November 5: The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio in the United States. Undated: WIXK-FM signs on the air in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Endings November 4: KUAC ends AM after 12 years. It is replaced by Morning Edition (see above in Debuts). Births May 4: Wes Butters, English broadcaster. July 23: Peter Rosenberg, American radio personality. Deaths April 9: Staats Cotsworth, 71, American actor perhaps best known for playing the title role in Casey, Crime Photographer. September 27: Gracie Fields, 81, English wartime singer, actress and broadcaster on BBC and Radio Luxembourg.Colin Larkin The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music https://books.google.com/books?id=_JdGAAAAMAAJ 1995 Guinness 978-1-56159-176-3 1443 October 27: Charles Coughlin, 88, Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest who used radio to reach a mass audience during the 1930s. This radio program included praises of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. References Category:Radio by year