1979 in radio

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The year 1979 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

Events

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: 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.

Undated: WIXK-FM signs on the air.
February 5: Sears Radio Theater debuts on CBS.^[1]
November 5: The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
Undated: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, long time rocker KRST flips to country music, becoming the city's first FM country radio station. KRST is still playing country music.

November 4 - KUAC Ends AM after 17 years. It's replaced by Morning Edition (see Above in Debuts)

April 9: Staats Cotsworth, 71, actor perhaps best known for playing the title role in Casey, Crime Photographer.
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.

^ Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 603. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-09-27. The Sears Radio Theater, dramatic anthology.

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