1960 in radio

none January 2012 September 2014 1960 radio television music film The year 1960 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. __TOC__ Events 25 January – The National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C. reacts to the payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records. 8 February – Congressional investigations begin into payola in the radio and record industries. 29 February – The radio program At Your Service debuts on St. Louis radio station KMOX. The program is believed to be the first locally produced radio talk show, and helps launch the talk radio format in the US.http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/stlmediaarchivep7.htm Archived copy 2016-02-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185851/http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/stlmediaarchivep7.htm March 3, 2016 26 September – Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the first ever presidential debate. The debate is broadcast on both radio and television with most radio listeners preferring Nixon's performance and TV viewers favoring Kennedy's.2023-04-25 The Kennedy-Nixon Debates - 1960, Analysis & TV vs. Radio https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/kennedy-nixon-debates 2023-12-04 HISTORY en (date unknown) – KFMA (1580 AM) of Davenport, Iowa switches its call letters to KWNT. By now, the format is full-time country music and the station is the only one in the Quad Cities market to devote itself exclusively to the genre. Debuts 15 May – WFVA-FM debuts. 19 June – The Associated Broadcasting Corporation (later TV5 Network, Inc.) is the founded in the Philippines makes the first radio station through DZMT begins broadcasting from its first studios in Pasong Tamo in Makati. Endings 1 January – The NBC Radio Theater ends its run on network radio (NBC).Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. 978-0-7864-3848-8. p. 6. 23 March – The Second Mrs. Burton ends its run on network radio (CBS). 27 August – The Louisiana Hayride puts on its final show. 25 November – The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on the CBS radio network. https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Ma+Perkins,+soap+opera%22&pg=PA420 Dunning John John Dunning (detective fiction author) On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1998 Oxford University Press New York, NY 978-0-19-507678-3 420–422 Revised 2019-09-27 Births 3 January – Liz Kershaw, UK radio presenter 13 February – Delilah, nationally syndicated US love-song request-and-dedication host 10 March – Anne MacKenzie, Scottish broadcast journalist 1 August – Chuck D, American rapper, composer, actor, author, radio personality and producer 17 September – Steve Scully, American broadcast journalist References Category:Radio by year