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The year 1986 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting. ==Events== *January 18 – The syndicated "American Country Countdown" expands from three to four hours. Much like "American Top 40" had more than seven years earlier, several new features are added, including a weekly recap of three No. 1 hits from the 1970s and playbacks of an artist's older hits. *February 14 - Philippines's Magic 89.9 started regular operations. *March 28 – More than 6,000 radio stations of all format types play "We Are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. *June 2 – KOFM in Oklahoma City changed their calls to KMGL and flipped formats from a Top 40 (CHR) format to an Easy Listening/Adult Standards format under Transtar's Format 41. *June 6 – Canada's premier Top 40 station, CHUM-AM Toronto, drops its hit format after almost 30 years and changes to "Favourites of Yesterday and Today." CHUM's corporate owner, CHUM Ltd., also switches several of its other major Top 40 stations, including CKGM in Montreal, CFRA in Ottawa, and CFUN in Vancouver, to AC formats during the year. *July 22 - Philippines's DZMM, an AM station of ABS-CBN returns to the air, 6 months after the successful People Power Revolution, which led to the presidency of Corazon Aquino. *August 11 – KFRC 610 AM in San Francisco drops its top 40 radio format after twenty years at 6 AM, and changes to a 1940s Big Band format, redubbing itself as "Magic 61". *October 22 – WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed in helicopter crash while live on air. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1986 in radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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