The year 2007 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
*January 8: Nanci "
The Fabulous Sports Babe" Donnellan returns to radio after a six-year absence, filling in for local hosts in Florida.
*January 12: Entercom station
KDND in
Sacramento, California
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was sued after a participant in a "Hold Your Wee For a
Wii" contest held by the station's morning show died of
water intoxication
Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, hyperhydration, overhydration, or water toxemia, is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that can result when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe ...
.
*February 12: Two radio stations in
Guinea
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, FM Liberté and Radio Familia, are attacked and besieged by members of the presidential guard.
*February 5: In Baghdad,
Iraq
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i police find the murdered body of Abduirazak Hashim Ayal al-Khakani, a journalist employed by the news service of Jumhuriyat al-Iraq radio.
*February 12:
Rádio Trânsito begins broadcasting from
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
,
Brazil
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.
*March 2:
WMMS-HD2
WMMS-HD2 (100.7-2 FM broadcasting, FM) is a digital subchannel of WMMS, a commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, and features a classic hip-hop format as "Throwback 99.1" Owned by iHeartMedia, WMMS- ...
(100.7-2 FM), a digital subchannel of
Cleveland
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rock station
WMMS, launches with a "classic
alternative" format.
*March 3: A number of format changes are announced at
Cumulus Media-owned radio stations in the
Quad Cities
The Quad Cities is a region of five cities (originally Tri-Cities, later four, see #History, History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport, Iowa, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Bettendorf (the fifth to be included) in southeaster ...
.
WXLP (96.9 FM) begins using its former moniker, 97X, and is reborn as a
classic hits-leaning towards
classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on comm ...
format. The
active rock format that had been at WXLP since 2004 (as "97 Rock") is moved to
KBOB-FM (104.9 FM), which is rebranded "Rock 104.9." The 104.9 FM frequency's
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...
format, which had been there since 2000 and associated with the call letters KBOB since 1994, is abandoned, leaving Cumulus without a country music station in the Quad-Cities market.
*March 6:
Air America Radio restructures, with politician
Mark Green and his brother
Stephen
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at the helm. Among the changes (see also "Closures"):
**
Sam Seder discontinues his weekday show and moves to Sunday afternoons on Air America Radio.
**
Lionel moves from
WOR Radio Network to Air America Radio, joining the latter May 14.
*March 15:
Lánchíd Rádió, a privately owned radio station in
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
, begins broadcasting.
*March 22:
CHUM Radio-O&O
CKCE-FM
CKCE-FM (101.5 FM, ''101.5 Today Radio'') is a radio station in Calgary. Owned by the Jim Pattison Group, it broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format with some segments of hot talk and listener interaction.
CKCE's studios are located on 58th ...
/
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...
signs on as "Energy 101.5" with a
Hot AC
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, ...
format.
* April 4: On ''
Imus in the Morning'': talk show host
Don Imus refers on-air to the
Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...
women's
basketball
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team as "nappy-headed
hos" and starts a national controversy about
racism
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and
free speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recognise ...
during
comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.
Origins
Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...
.
* April 12: The ''
Imus in the Morning'' talk show is canceled by
MSNBC
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, and host
Don Imus is fired for remarks made about the
Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...
women's basketball team. The controversy evolved into firing as a violation of the civil rights of free speech.
*June 12:
Citadel Broadcasting
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's purchase of most ABC Radio assets closes, and restructuring takes place.
*June 22:
WKBF (1270 AM) of
Rock Island, Illinois
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, flips from
Christian
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talk (as "Truth 1270") to "La Pantera," a Spanish and Mexican music format, following the frequency's sale from Quad Cities Media to La Jefa Latino Broadcasting. The station's new format allows WKBF to become the first full-time
Spanish-language
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radio station in the Quad Cities and stabilizes the station's format, which had changed several times since 1995.
*June 29:
Tom Kent
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resigns as host of his programs on the TKO Radio Network, the network he launched as a 24-hour network in the same year; he maintains ownership of the network and is replaced behind the microphone by
John Landecker and Marty Thompson.
*July 1:
Art Bell retires (again) from his weekend hosting gig at ''
Coast to Coast AM''.
*July 12:
WCBS-FM 101.1 FM New York drops its
Jack format after two years and returns to
Oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
Since 2 ...
.
*July 16: ''
Mike and the Mad Dog'' becomes "nationally syndicated" with its first
affiliate outside
New York State
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,
WQYK in
Tampa, Florida
Tampa ( ) is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. Tampa's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and t ...
. According to host
Mike Francesa, more affiliates are in the works.
*July 30: ''
Pardon the Interruption'' returns to
ESPN Radio
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.
*August 10: ABC Radio discontinues
syndication of
Larry Elder; his show continues on
KABC in
Los Angeles
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and reverts to a local show. All other affiliates are switched over to
Mark Levin's show, also syndicated by ABC in the same time slot.
*August 16:
Ocean FM, broadcasting in the
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located so ...
, loses its operating licence.
*August 17:
Dan Patrick leaves his position at
ESPN Radio
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.
*September 3: West German radio (
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
(; "West German Broadcasting Cologne"), shortened to WDR (), is a German public broadcasting, public-broadcasting institution based in the States of Germany, Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a const ...
) programme ''Mozaik'' commemorates the 50th anniversary of
Heinrich Böll's ''
Irisches Tagebuch''.
*September 4:
Russia
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's government appoints a new prosecutor to take forward the trial of the murderers of journalist
Anna Politkovskaya the previous year.
*October 1: Patrick returns on
KLAC in Los Angeles and syndicated through the ''Content Factory''.
*October 5: Long-time
Pittsburgh
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CHR station "B94", returns to the air after flipping to
rock (and later "male" talk) in 2004.
*October 8:
**
WEXM (formerly WNOU) in
Indianapolis
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,
Indiana
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changes to
Christmas music
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, the first station in the country to do so, as a "stunt format" for the next three months. The first non-
stunting stations to change over were
KCKC in Kansas City and
KOSY-FM in
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...
, for the second year in a row, on the evening of October 31, among several other stations.
**
WZOO flips from CHR to
Classic Hits with a new branding, "Magic 102.5."
*October 11: Government-run newspaper ''The New Light of
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
'' blames US-sponsored
Radio Free Asia for inciting violent protest.
*October 12: 99.3 and 104.5 Kiss FM, a Hot Adult Contemporary simulcast in Northwest PA operated by Forever Media, flips to Majic 99.3 and 104.5 - a jockless Variety Hits format. The call letters switch from WOXX to
WHMJ (99.3) and WXXO to WXMJ (104.5)
*October 26: It was announced that on November 3,
WFUN would flip to ESPN Sports.
*October 29:
**
Astral Media
Astral Media Inc. was a Canadian media conglomerate. It was Canada's largest radio broadcaster, with 84 radio stations in eight provinces. Astral was also a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, with 23 specialty channel ...
takes over almost all of the former broadcasting assets of Standard Broadcasting in
Canada
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.
**San Diego's
KLSD
KLSD (1360 AM) is a commercial radio station in San Diego, California, United States, broadcasting a conservative talk radio format branded as "The Patriot." It is owned by iHeartMedia with studios on Granite Ridge Drive. Programming is also ...
flips from
Talk to Sports Talk.
*October 31:
**
The Greaseman resigns as host of
WMET's morning show to focus on Internet ventures.
**
WWFT flips from Talk to Christmas music stunting until the end of the year.
*November 3:
**
WFUN flips from talk to ESPN Sports.
**
Roger Hedgecock assumes a position as the host of a national weekly talk show.
*November 7: Atlanta's
WQXI opened their own sports bar in downtown Atlanta.
*November 16: The
bNet NZ Music Awards are held for the 10th and last time, at the Hopetoun Alpha in Auckland, New Zealand, hosted by
Matt Heath and
Chris Stapp.
*November 19:
WIAU transforms from
Classic Hits to Talk introducing
syndicated hosts such as Dr. Laura.
*November 27: Colorado West Broadcasting, Inc. sells
KGLN to MBC Broadcasting for $250,000.
*November 30:
**
WMRN changes dial position from 106.9 to 106.7 at 12PM.
**
Entravision Communications
Entravision Communications Corporation is an American media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic community ...
buys
WNUE from Mega Communications for $24 million.
*December: In the run-up to the
2007 Kenyan general election
General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. Voters elected the President of Kenya, President, and members of the National Assembly (Kenya), National Assembly. They coincided with the 2007 Kenyan local elections.
Incumbent Mwai Ki ...
, the
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation continues to campaign for the incumbent president,
Mwai Kibaki
Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki (15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022) was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013.
He served in various leadership positions in Kenya's government including ...
, as do Citizen FM and other radio stations owned by Kibaki's associate, S. K. Macharia.
*December 3: ''
Imus in the Morning'' is revived on
WABC and the ABC Radio network.
*December 5: Controversial radio host
J. R. Gach leaves the Internet and the airwaves after a lawsuit involving comments he made in February 2006 is settled for nearly a million dollars.
*December 21:
Gary Burbank
Gary Burbank (born Billy Purser, July 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio personality. He was heard daily on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, from June 15, 1981, until December 21, 2007, and nationally as the voice of his fictional character, ...
,
WLW
WLW (700 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial news/talk radio station city of license, licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, WLW is a clear-channel station, often identifying itself as "The Big One". Its studios ...
radio personality and voice of
Earl Pitts, retires.
*December 13:
**
WFTK drops the
talk format, stunting the entire day with
construction
Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...
sounds. The next day, they debuted an
alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...
format branded as 96 Rock.
**
WMRN changed formats from theme song stunting (before
stunting, WMRN's format was
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...
) to alternative rock as "Radio 106.7" at 12PM.
*December 26:
WIBC in
Indianapolis
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,
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
moves its
news
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/
talk format to 93.1 FM. The station's AM frequency flipped to
sports
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as
WFNI.
*''date unknown'':
Global Radio
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is founded by
Ashley Tabor-King, backed by his father
Michael Tabor, and purchases a network of FM stations, including the
Heart
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and
Capital networks,
Classic FM, XFM, Choice FM, Gold and Chill
Debuts
*
Casey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably ''American Top 40'', as well as the weekly syndicated televi ...
's ''
American Top 40
''American Top 40'' (abbreviated to ''AT40'') is an internationally radio syndication, syndicated, independent song countdown radio programming, radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds, and Ron Jacobs (broadcaster), Ron Jaco ...
: The 70s'' (January 1) and ''The 80s'' (April 8). Terrestrial
syndication debut after several months exclusively on
XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XM) was one of the three satellite radio ( SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings. It provided pay-for-service radio, analogous to subscription cable ...
.
*February 20: ''
The Tony Kornheiser Show''. This is the day that Kornheiser returned to radio on WTWP (now
WWWT) and
XM 144 after his first stint on
Monday Night Football
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. The show will go on hiatus June 30 as Kornheiser returns for one more season on MNF.
*March: ''
Filipinas, Ahora Mismo
''Filipinas, Ahora Mismo'', or ''Pilipinas, Ora Mismo'' (English language, English translation: ''Philippines, Right Now''), was a broadcast syndication, nationally syndicated, 60-minute, cultural radio magazine program in the Philippines bro ...
'', daily cultural magazine show in
Spanish
*March 26: ''The
Dennis Miller Show'', syndicated by
Westwood One.
*April 1: ''
Calendrier Sportif'', 24-hour,
French-language
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sports information radio station on
XM Satellite Radio
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.
*April 2: ''Wil & Lehmo'', afternoon drive time radio program broadcast nationally on Triple M in Australia.
*April 6: ''Tiësto's Club Life'', weekly show hosted by Netherlands, Dutch disc jockey, DJ Tiësto on Radio 538.
*April 12: ''The Keith Sweat Hotel'',
syndicated by Premiere Networks, Premiere Radio Networks.
*April 16: ''Q (radio show), Q'', Canadian arts magazine show, broadcast on CBC Radio One.
*April: Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik begins hosting a talk radio program, ''Lighting the Fires of Liberty'' on the We the People radio network.
*Steve Malzberg. May 7. Returned to the airwaves in national syndication thanks to the
WOR Radio Network.
*May 17: San Francisco
classic hits station KFRC-FM, KFRC is revived on 106.9 FM. The format had previously been on 99.7 FM until it switched to the Movin' format in September 2006.
*June 25: ''The Phil Hendrie Show''. Initially intended to be a more political and issues oriented program, the show quickly reverted to a format similar to its previous format.
*August 23: Bob Grant (radio host), Bob Grant. Grant's sudden return to the network came one day after the official announcement of his rehiring.
*September 4: Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton in the Morning. Permanent replacement for Imus at WFAN (AM), WFAN.
*''The Mike Tirico Show.'' September 20. Replacement for
Dan Patrick on
ESPN Radio
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''.''
*John Batchelor. October 7. Replaces Brian Whitman on
WABC and returns to radio after his daily show, also on WABC (and later syndicated by ABC Radio), was cancelled in September 2006. Batchelor also debuts another three-hour show on KFI, dealing with the same topics, immediately after the WABC show.
*''Live on Sunday Night'' with Bill Cunningham (talk show host), Bill Cunningham. October 7. Replaces Matt Drudge on Premiere Networks, Premiere Radio Networks.
*Michael Jackson (radio commentator), Michael Jackson. October 29. Debuts on KMZT (AM), KGIL in
Los Angeles
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in his former time slot.
Endings
*''WWVA Jamboree/Jamboree USA. January 6. The long-running country music show, which had aired since 1933 on WWVA (AM), WWVA/Wheeling, West Virginia, is canceled as the station streamlines its focus on its talk radio format. It will be revived in 2009 by crosstown talk station WKKX as WWVA's then-sister property Live Nation spins off the program - now renamed the ''Wheeling Jamboree'' - to a non-profit organization.
*''The Al Franken Show''. February 14. Franken left his show on Air America Radio to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
*Free FM. In a series of moves beginning in May 2007, CBS Radio phased out the hot talk network by changing several stations' formats and rebranding most others.
*CHUM Limited absorbed into Bell Media, CTVglobemedia June 22
*Classical music station WFMR (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), WFMR in Milwaukee ends 51 years on the air when the station flips to a Smooth jazz format as WJZX June 26
*''Adventures in Good Music'': Producer and distributor WCPN, WCLV announced "with great regret" that it would broadcast and syndicate its last encore episode of ''Adventures in Good Music'' with Karl Haas on June 29, 2007.
*July 1:
Art Bell announces his retirement from weekend hosting, effective immediately, but will host occasional shows in the future.
*July 2: ''Utawarerumono Radio'', Japan's first Internet radio show, ends its run on the broadcast station Oto Izumi.
*August 17: Greenstone Media. Women's talk network folds after slightly over a year on the air. The network only gained 8 affiliates in its short life.
*Washington Post Radio. September 19. The short-lived attempt at a long-form commercial all-news radio station in the style of NPR, run by ''The Washington Post'', ended as Bonneville switches its network of stations to 3WT Talk Radio.
*Matt Drudge's Sunday night show. September 30. Drudge left the timeslot; Premiere Radio Networks replaced him with Bill Cunningham (talk show host), Bill Cunningham.
*ABC News & Talk. September 24. Closed by ABC Radio in restructuring.
*October 18: WPEP at Taunton, Massachusetts has its license canceled so WUBG (AM), WNSH-Beverly, Massachusetts can increase to 30 Watt, kW. They were on the same frequency: 1570 Hertz, kHz.
*''Satellite Sisters''. November 9. Cancelled by ABC Radio in restructuring.
*''Wake Up with Whoopi, Wake Up With Whoopi''. November 30. The show, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, was cancelled by WKTU in New York City after low ratings.
* Doug Hoerth. December 3. Renda Broadcasting, owners of WGBN, WPTT in
Pittsburgh
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, announce they are not renewing Hoerth's contract after a ten-year run as the station's morning and later afternoon host.
*December 20 - After three years as "Diva 92.3" WZRH, WDVW in New Orleans flips from Rhythmic/Dance to Adult Top 40 as "Mix 92.3."
*John London's Inferno. December 25. The show failed in
syndication due to a lack of Network affiliate, affiliates.
Deaths
*3 January: János Fürst, 71, Hungarian violinist and conductor, former member of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra
*8 January: Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canada, Canadian actress
*2 February: Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian composer, works include an opera for radio
*6 February: Frankie Laine, 93, US singer and radio performer
*9 February: Benedict Kiely, 87, Republic of Ireland, Irish writer and broadcaster
*April: Vida Jane Butler, 84, radio announcer, voice-over artist, also known as "Janie Joplin"
*12 March: Betty Hutton, 86, actress and singer, radio star
*1 April: Herb Carneal, 83, American sportscaster, radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball, MLB team, Heart failure, congestive heart failure
*14 April: Mike Webb (radio host), Mike Webb, 41. American radio host at KIRO (AM), KIRO, known for his extreme liberal viewpoints. Killed by an axe murderer.
*12 June: Ann Colone, 77, Fort Wayne, Indiana Television presenter, broadcaster
*13 June: Sir David Hatch, 68, BBC Radio producer and comedian
*12 July: Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster, 60
*20 July: Pete Wilson (broadcaster), Pete Wilson, 62, long-serving talk show host at KGO (AM), KGO.
*13 August: Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, Hall of Fame inductee and sports broadcaster, pneumonia
*30 August: K. P. H. Notoprojo, 98, Javanese gamelan player and composer
*9 September: Paul Sullivan (radio), Paul Sullivan, 50, overnight host at WBZ (AM), WBZ
*11 September: Joe Zawinul, 75, Austrian jazz musician and member of Cannonball Adderley's group
*15 September: Aldemaro Romero, 79, Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor
*24 September: Geoff Cannell, 65, Isle of Man, Manx Member of the House of Keys and sports broadcaster, stroke
*1 October
**Chris Mainwaring, 41, Australian footballer for the West Coast Eagles, television and radio sports journalist
**Ned Sherrin, 76, British broadcaster and theatre producer
*2 October: Tawn Mastrey, 53, American radio disc jockey (KNAC), hepatitis C
*30 October: Robert Goulet, 73, French-Canadian singer, actor and former radio announcer
*15 November: Joe Nuxhall, 79, American baseball player and broadcaster (Cincinnati Reds), pneumonia and multiple cancers.
*5 December: Karlheinz Stockhausen, German avant-garde composer and frequent radio performer, 79
*25 December: Pat Kirkwood (actress), Pat Kirkwood, 86, British actress and singer
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