2009 in radio

• January 1: Kurdish TV starts broadcasting in Turkey.{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL2352569 | work=Reuters | title=Turkey's Kurdish TV channel opens to mixed reviews | first=Ibon | last=Villelabeitia | date=January 2, 2009| access-date= 4 January 2009 }}
• March 9: ABC Kinglake Ranges, a temporary radio service, makes its first broadcast from Kinglake, Victoria, Australia, to areas in the Shire of Murrindindi affected by the Black Saturday bushfires, using a makeshift transmitter on 97.1FM.{{cite news |title=Introducing ABC Kinglake Ranges |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/03/12/2514740.htm |access-date=5 February 2019 |work=774 ABC Melbourne |date=12 March 2009}}
• March 24: The Ray D'Arcy Show on commercial radio station Today FM, covers the Brian Cowen nude portraits story. Producer Will Hanafin claims that a friend of the artist e-mailed photographs of a similar painting to him in January. Hanafin is approached by the Garda and warned he could be charged if he refuses to give up the e-mails.{{cite web|url=http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/idqlqleysn/|title=Today FM producer brands reaction 'crazy'|newspaper=Irish Examiner|date=26 March 2009|access-date=28 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302224032/http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/idqlqleysn/|archive-date=2 March 2015}}
• April 6: Antena Sarajevo is launched in Bosnia, as an urban radio service for Sarajevo.{{cite web|title=Počela s radom Antena Sarajevo (in Bosnian)|url=http://www.gracija.ba/novost/17889/pocela-s-radom-antena-sarajevo-|work= www.gracija.ba|publisher= www.gracija.ba|access-date=29 July 2013}}
• May 11: Kerrang! Radio wins Station Of The Year 1,000,000+ at the Sony Awards.
• June: Radio Erena, a Paris-based radio station broadcasting news in the Tigrinya and Arabic languages to Eritrea, is launched by journalist Biniam Simon.{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2016/06/24/radio-erena-la-voix-de-l-erythree-en-plein-paris_4957644_3212.html|title=Radio Erena, la voix de l’Erythrée en plein Paris|last1=Lepidi|first1=Pierre|date=24 June 2016|work=Le Monde|access-date=6 August 2017|language=fr}}
• June 25: American musician Michael Jackson dies. Radio stations around the world play his music in the months following as a tribute.{{Cite web |last=Trust |first=Gary |date=2009-06-26 |title=Radio Remembers Michael Jackson |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/radio-remembers-michael-jackson-268271/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Billboard |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=2009-06-29 |title=Michael Jackson's Hits Post Huge Radio Numbers, Nielsen Reports |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/michael-jacksons-hits-post-huge-radio-numbers-nielsen-reports-98172/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}
• July 4 and July 5: After a 50+ year career, 39 of those years as host of syndicated countdown shows, Casey Kasem hosts his final weekly countdown show. American Top 20 and American Top 10 were spinoffs of his original show, American Top 40, which continues with host Ryan Seacrest.
• July 6–12 – Australian Radio station Triple J holds its 'Hottest 100 of All Time' with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" coming in first for the third consecutive time a 'Hottest 100 of All Time' has been held 1991, 1998 and 2009. This is the largest music poll in the world with more than half a million people voting.
• August 13: Kiss FM (Sri Lanka) is launched, broadcasting to the Colombo, Kandy and Coastal regions{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymirror.lk/entertainment/music/5960-kiss-turns-one.html |title=Colombo experiences its First Kiss |date=20 August 2010 |newspaper=The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110135226/http://www.dailymirror.lk/entertainment/music/5960-kiss-turns-one.html |archive-date=10 November 2013 }}
• November 24: Virgin Radio Jordan 93.7 is launched at City Mall in Amman, Jordan.{{cite web|url=http://www.virginradiojordan.com/aboutvirgin.aspx |title=About Virgin |publisher=Virgin Radio Jordan |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918215212/http://virginradiojordan.com/aboutvirgin.aspx |archive-date=September 18, 2010 }}
• December 18: After 27 years, Irish broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan presents his final breakfast show on the UK's BBC Radio 2.{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8420157.stm|title= Sir Terry Wogan bids farewell to show|publisher= BBC News|date=December 18, 2009|access-date=December 18, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091224064256/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8420157.stm| archive-date= 24 December 2009 | url-status= live}}{{cite news|url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/entertainment/After-27-years-Sir-Terry.5925343.jp|title=After 27 years, Sir Terry Wogan has left the building|publisher=The Scotsman|date=December 19, 2009| access-date= 9 July 2010 }}

• January 5: De Cock Late Night, talk radio show on the Flemish radio MNM presented by Tom De Cock (ended in 2012)Cock, Tom De (2001) De Openbaring, een profetie, Houtekiet, Antwerpen, {{ISBN|9052405980}}
• February 13: Club Nation, weekly show hosted by the Croatian/Dutch DJ duo Tezija & Keyra, launched on Splash FM.
• March 13: Inquilaab – The Story of Junoon, one-off documentary broadcast on City FM 89 in Pakistan.[http://www.cityfm89.com/website/citycastpostview.aspx?pid=199 City FM 89 – Inquilaab, The Story of Junoon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705175735/http://www.cityfm89.com/website/citycastpostview.aspx?pid=199 |date=2011-07-05 }} Retrieved on March 19, 2011
• April: 96.3 Easy Rock begins broadcast in Pasay, Philippines under Manila Broadcasting Company.
• August 14: The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, a radio musical written by Sparks and commissioned by Sweden's national broadcasting service, Sveriges Radio, is broadcast for the first time.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sparks+fly+in+new+musical.-a0207725620|title=Sparks fly in new musical|last=Sloan|first=Billy|date=2009-09-13|work=Sunday Mail (Scotland)|access-date=2009-12-29}}
• December 14: Jeder Rappen zählt, charity fundraiser on Swiss radio and television
• date unknown: A hely ("The Place"), a programme that experiments with the presentation of events, phenomenon, places and professions from a very insider perspective, is launched on Kossuth Rádió in Hungary.

• date unknown: Newsreader Bob Leahy gives up reading the news on New Zealand's Radio Network.
• 96.3 W Rock is ended for almost 21 years.

• January 13: Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and radio producer, 83[http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/6D6AF90060A4937EC225753D00365645?OpenDocument Naharnet article "Lebanese Composer Mansour Rahbani Dies at 83"]
• February 3: Jorge Serguera, former President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, 76{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-beatles-idUSTRE51300220090204|title=Cuban who banned Beatles has died|date=4 February 2009|access-date=7 January 2018|agency=Reuters}}
• April 26: Barbara Birdfeather, American radio DJ, 69{{cite news| url=https://variety.com/2009/scene/people-news/dj-barbara-birdfeather-dies-at-69-1118003038/ | work=Variety | title=DJ Barbara Birdfeather dies at 69 | date=April 30, 2009}}
• April 26: Geir Hovig, Norwegian radio presenter, 64{{cite web |url=http://www.fosna-folket.no/incoming/article1240400.ece |title = Mr. Blues er g tt bort - Fosna-Folket |access-date=May 3, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501084048/http://www.fosna-folket.no/incoming/article1240400.ece |archive-date=May 1, 2009 }}
• July 2: Pasquale Borgomeo, director of Radio Vatican, 76{{cite web|url=http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=299722|title=Vatican Radio|first=Vatican Radio -|last=Webteam|publisher=radiovaticana.org|access-date=August 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722174928/http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=299722|archive-date=July 22, 2009|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
• July 16: D. K. Pattammal, Indian Carnatic musician who began her career on radio, 90{{cite news|title=Front page: Pattammal passes away|work=The Hindu|date=17 July 2009|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/17/stories/2009071757880100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719091301/http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/17/stories/2009071757880100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 July 2009|access-date=11 April 2015}}
• July 21: Gangubai Hangal, Indian classical singer and All India Radio performer, 96{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wade |first=Bonnie C. |editor=Sadie, Stanley |encyclopedia=The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians |title=Hangal, Gangubai |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rH8DQAAACAAJ |edition=2nd |year=2001 |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |volume=17 |location=London |isbn=0-333-60800-3 |page=820}}
• October 4: Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer who began her career on radio, 74{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/6259898/Mercedes-Sosa.html|title=Mercedes Sosa: Obituary|date=4 October 2009|access-date=5 October 2009|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}
• October 9: Dré Steemans, Belgian television and radio host, 55 (cardiac arrest){{cite web|url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20091009_012|title=Felice overleden aan hartinfarct|first=mcu|last=avb}} (Dutch)
• October 31: Tim Bickerstaff, New Zealand broadcaster who pioneered talkback radio, 67{{cite web|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/talkback-personality-tim-bickerstaff-dies-3105959|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604081306/http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/talkback-personality-tim-bickerstaff-dies-3105959|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2010|title=Radio talkback personality Tim Bickerstaff dies |date=4 June 2010}}
• November 7: Vic Davies, Australian radio presenter, 55 (lung cancer){{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/club-veg-radio-host-loses-cancer-battle-20091108-i3d5.html|title=Club Veg radio host loses cancer battle|date=8 November 2009|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=9 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091109221853/http://www.smh.com.au/national/club-veg-radio-host-loses-cancer-battle-20091108-i3d5.html|archive-date=9 November 2009|url-status=dead|agency=AAP}}
• November 20: Roman Trakhtenberg, Russian actor, television and radio presenter, 41 (heart attack){{Cite web|url=https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2009/11/21/roman-trakhtenberg/81856|title=Roman Trakhtenberg dies at 41|date=21 November 2009|website=Aysor.am|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117150344/https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2009/11/21/roman-trakhtenberg/81856|archive-date=17 January 2018|url-status=live|access-date=17 January 2018}}
• December 11: Ciarán Mac Mathúna, Irish radio presenter and music collector, 84{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1211/macmathuna.html |title=Broadcaster Ciarán Mac Mathúna dies |date=11 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116174356/http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1211/macmathuna.html |archive-date=16 January 2010 }}

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