Overview of the events of 1971 in radio
The year 1971 in radio involved some significant events.
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).[ 1]
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 .[ 2]
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 W hite P ort & L emon J uice
KABC-FM in Los Angeles becomes KLOS , for Los Angeles.
KGO-FM in San Francisco becomes KSFX, for S an F rancisco (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 D etroit A uto I ndustry; 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.[ 3]
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 .[ 4]
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.[ 5]
15 July: DXDB Radyo Bandilyo, an AM radio station owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Malaybalay, is launched in the Philippines.[ 6]
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.[ 7]
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 WHKW ); WGAR replaces him with fellow shock jock John Lanigan .
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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 .[ 9]
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 .
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Births
January 9 – Angie Martinez , American radio personality
January 20 – Pixie McKenna , Irish doctor, radio and TV presenter
April 16
May 20 – Chris Booker , American radio and television personality.
May – Frank Brinsley , host of The Frank Show
June 10 – Kyle Sandilands , Australian radio presenter
June 23 – Alan Cox , American comedian and radio personality, currently on WMMS in Cleveland, Ohio
July 21 – Nuno Markl , Portuguese comedian and radio host
July 30 – Tom Green , Canadian comedian and talk show host
August 23 – Hugh Douglas , former NFL player, regular personality on Philadelphia sports radio station WIP
August 26 – Thalía , Mexican singer, actress and radio presenter
October 13 – Billy Bush , radio personality, co-host of TV show Access Hollywood George W. Bush
October 20 – Dannii Minogue , Australian singer and radio presenter[ 11]
December 17 – Alan Khan , South African radio DJ
Deaths
January 7 – Richard Kollmar , 60, actor and Broadway producer.[ 12]
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 [ 13]
July 6 – Louis Armstrong , 69, African-American jazz musician, actor, singer, radio and TV personality[ 14]
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 [ 15]
References
^ Brochand, Christian, Histoire générale de la radio et de la télévision en France , tome 2, Paris, Documentation française, 1994, p. 379
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^ Donnelley, Paul (November 1, 2005). Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries . Omnibus Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-1-84449-430-9 ^ Meckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.
^ Sean Williams; Lillis Ó Laoire (14 April 2011). Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man ISBN 978-0-19-532118-0
