1954 in radio
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The year 1954 in radio involved some significant events.
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Events[edit]
- 1 February: KECA and KECA-FM, both in Los Angeles, change call letters to KABC and KABC-FM, reflecting their owners, ABC-United Paramount Theaters.
- 1 April: ABC-United Paramount Theaters, owners of WENR-Chicago, purchases time-share counterpart WLS-Chicago from Sears, Roebuck and Co., and merges both stations under the WLS calls (their FM sister station would keep the WENR calls until 1965).
- 17 November: WJW (AM) in Cleveland, Ohio (today WKNR) is sold by William M. O'Neill to Storer Broadcasting.
Debuts[edit]
- January 3: WSTN debuts as a 1 kW daytimer at St. Augustine, Florida.
- January 20 - The National Negro Network is formed.
Closings[edit]
- March 30 - Rocky Fortune, a half-hour detective drama starring Frank Sinatra, aired its final episode on NBC.
- September 25 - Escape ends its run on CBS.
Births[edit]
- January 12 - Howard Stern, shock jock radio personality
- August 22 - Kurt Andersen, American novelist, columnist and public radio host
- September 8 - Joe Cipriano, American voice over actor and radio personality
- November 20 - Steve Dahl, has been an American radio personality
- December 5 - Peter Arbogast, American sportscaster
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