October 10 – Facing an investigation surrounding allegations of illegal drug use, American right-wing radio hostRush Limbaugh publicly admits that he is addicted to prescriptionpain killers, and will seek treatment.
March 31 – "NBC News Radio," an hourly service of one-minute news updates anchored byNBC News andMSNBC personnel (but written byWestwood One staffers) is launched. Westwood One still maintains production of the unrelated five-minute long "NBCRadio News"-branded newscasts in morning drive (which had been produced and anchored byCBS Radio personnel since 1998) for one more year; they were one of a few remaining connections to the originalNBC Radio Network.
April –KJOC inDavenport, Iowa dumps its all-sports format and switches to talk, hoping to compete with the market'sWOC. Some sports programming – mainly, theChicago Cubs andIowa State University athletics – are held over, and (except for a few brief interim periods with ISU sports) remain to this day.
October 12 –Billboard unveils theHot Dance Airplay chart. "Just The Way You Are" byMilky is the first number one single on the published chart. Original panel:WKTU/New York City,KDLD/Los Angeles,KKDL/Dallas-Fort Worth,WQSX/Boston,WPYM/Miami,KCJZ/San Antonio,KPTI/San Francisco andKNRJ/Phoenix. All stations have since left the Dance format and panel.
August 27 -Jinx Falkenburg, 83, who (with her husband, Tex) popularized the talk-show format, first on radio and then in the early days of television[1]
October 27 -Rod Roddy, 66, American top-40 disc jockey and announcer, better known for his work announcing television game shows
^abcCox, Jim (2008).This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.ISBN978-0-7864-3848-8.
