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1971 in radio

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The year 1971 in radio involved some significant events.

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Events

  • 2 January: A ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States.
  • 3 January: Open University begins broadcasts on the BBC in the United Kingdom.
  • 5 January: FIP (France Inter Paris) begins broadcasting from Paris on 514 m (585 kHz).Brochand, Christian, Histoire générale de la radio et de la télévision en France, tome 2, Paris, Documentation française, 1994, {{p.|379}}
  • 19 January: Moscow Radio broadcasts criticism of the Sultan of Oman in Arabic. One of the accusations against him is that he allowed the setting up of a radio station called "Voice of the Free South" in opposition to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.{{cite book|title=Problems of Communism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iI4qAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA37|year=1972|publisher=Special Materials Section, United States Information Agency|pages=37}}
  • 14 February: All of ABC Radio's FM stations change call letters, all on the same day:
  • WABC-FM in New York becomes WPLJ, for White Port & Lemon Juice.
  • KABC-FM in Los Angeles becomes KLOS, for Los Angeles.
  • KGO-FM in San Francisco becomes KSFX, for San Francisco (now KOSF).
  • KQV-FM in Pittsburgh becomes WDVE, for a D o V E, the symbol of peace.
  • WXYZ-FM in Detroit becomes WRIF, for a guitar "R I F F" (legend goes that the calls were meant for WLS-FM to symbolize the cities' jazz scene).
  • WLS-FM in Chicago becomes WDAI (supposedly meant for WXYZ-FM to celebrate the Detroit Auto Industry; it had no meaning in Chicago).
  • KXYZ-FM in Houston becomes KAUM (today KHMX), meaning "Aumm", in Meditation terms; corresponding to Hippie meditative actions.
  • 20 February: The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning; many radio stations just ignore it, while WOWO in Fort Wayne takes it seriously and interrupts programming for 20 minutes.
  • 2 March: 8HA is launched in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
  • 18 March: Prambors FM is launched in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • 26 March: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares Bangladesh's independence in a radio message.{{cite book|author=Dr. Hemant Kumar Pandey & Manish Raj Singh|title=India's Major Military & Rescue Operations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nn5IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|date=1 August 2017|publisher=Horizon Books (A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd)|isbn=978-93-86369-39-0|pages=125}}
  • 1 April: Bayern 3, a public radio station owned and operated by Bayerischer Rundfunk, is launched in West Germany.
  • 10 May: Members of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) interrupt a live radio broadcast on France's RTL, in which controversial presenter Menie Grégoire is introducing a phone-in on the subject of homosexuality.{{cite book|author=John Mowitt|title=Radio: Essays in Bad Reception|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oNEyZ9UjQ4C&pg=PA105|date=7 December 2011|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95007-8|pages=105–6}}
  • 24 May: U.S. Senator Clifford Case introduces Senate Bill 18, to remove funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from the CIA's budget.{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations|title=Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: Hearing Before ... 92-1 on S. 18, and S. 1936, May 24, 1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2xFEha_ihwC&pg=PP3|year=1971|pages=24}}
  • 15 July: DXDB Radyo Bandilyo, an AM radio station owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malaybalay, is launched in the Philippines.[http://www.claretianpublications.com/index.php/catholic-directory/diocese/diocese-of-malaybalay/107 Diocese of Malaybalay]
  • 19 September: MBC FM4U, South Korea's second FM station, is launched.
  • 2 November: Radio Waikato begins broadcasting in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 954 kHz AM.{{cite book|title=The New Zealand Official Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iaYrAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Government Printer|page=268}}
  • 19 November: Triple M Central Coast begins broadcasting from Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, under the name 2GO.
  • December: WNBC in New York lures Don Imus and his Imus in the Morning program away from WGAR (AM) in Cleveland (now WHKW); WGAR replaces him with fellow shock jock John Lanigan.
  • date unknown
  • Radio Malaysia becomes the first radio station in Malaysia to broadcast 24 hours a day, nationwide.
  • The FM- and TV-mast Helsinki-Espoo, the third highest structure in Finland, begins transmission.
  • WLOL-FM and KSJN, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota, participate in "quadcast" (quadraphonic) experiments.
  • Sergiu Celibidache becomes conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra.{{cite book|author=Randel Don|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA148|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|pages=148}}
  • David McCallum Sr. ends his tenure as leader of Mantovani's orchestra.

Debuts

  • January 18 – La Case Trésor, presented by Guy Lux, is broadcast for the first time in France (runs until 1976).
  • May 3 - All Things Considered, NPR's flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.
  • October – Odd Grythe begins hosting Husker du..., an entertainment show for the elderly, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Odd Grythe|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Hans Fredrik|last=Dahl|authorlink=Hans Fredrik Dahl|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Odd_Grythe/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=20 October 2010}}
  • November 7 – WCCI-FM in Savanna, Illinois signs on at 100.1 FM. The station will later move to 100.3 FM.
  • December – KOEL-FM, licensed to Oelwein, Iowa, signs on the air at 92.3 FM. Its initial format is country music.
  • date unknown
  • Bill Ballance begins hosting the Feminine Forum radio show on KGBS in Los Angeles
  • The Music of the NOW Man is launched on the American Forces Network in the Far East.{{cite book|author=John Eliot Groh|title=Air Force Chaplains, 1971-1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xhadhNp9u0C&pg=PA238|year=1986|publisher=Office, Chief of Air Force Chaplains|pages=238}}
  • KRWC 1360 AM in Buffalo, MN signs on for the first time.

Births

Deaths

  • January 7 – Richard Kollmar, 60, actor and Broadway producer.Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3848-8}}.
  • January 13 – Henri Tomasi, 69, French composer and conductor, one of the first radio conductors and a pioneer of "radiophonic" music
  • March 16 – Bebe Daniels, 70, US actress, writer, producer and radio personality (Life with the Lyons){{cite book |last=Donnelley |first=Paul |title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries |publisher=Omnibus Press |date=November 1, 2005 |pages=301 |isbn=978-1-84449-430-9}}
  • July 6 – Louis Armstrong, 69, African-American jazz musician, actor, singer, radio and TV personalityMeckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.
  • July 11 – Carleton G. Young, 64, American radio and television actor
  • October 3 – Seán Ó Riada, 40, Irish composer, former music director at Radio Éireann and presenter of Our Musical Heritage{{cite book|author1=Sean Williams|author2=Lillis Ó Laoire|title=Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXMQSIwXxFEC&pg=PA30|date=14 April 2011|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-532118-0|pages=30}}

References

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