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The year 1996 in radio involved some significant events. ==Events== *President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which greatly increased the number of stations one could own per market, into law. *Geneseo, Illinois radio stations WGEN (1500 AM) and WGEN-FM (104.9) are sold to Connoisseur Communications, owner of KJOC, KQCS, WXLP and KBOB with studios in Davenport, Iowa. The FM signal is simply a repeater of KJOC's signal, which has an all-sports format, while the AM signal repeats KBOB (at the time, located at 99.7 FM with a country format) as Connoisseur was considering future plans for the two stations. *February 5–9 – WYNY ends its country format at 6 AM and began to simulcast its sister stations outside New York, WRCX in Chicago on February 5, KKBT in Los Angeles on February 6, WLUP-FM in Chicago on February 7, KIOI in San Francisco on February 8, and WXKS-FM in Boston on February 9. *March 8 – KZZP in Phoenix flips back to Top 40/CHR *March 25 - KCIN/Seattle flips from country to Rhythmic AC, branded as "Kiss 106", after a week of simulcasting sister stations and a stunt loop of various sound effects *May 31 - WEDJ/Charlotte rebrands to "Kiss 95.1", bringing the "Kiss" moniker back to the market for the first time in 2 years, when it was formerly carried on 101.9 FM (now WBAV-FM) *June 20 - Westinghouse/CBS Radio announced its merger with Infinity Broadcasting. The $3.9 billion deal would be the biggest deal in radio history until Clear Channel's acquisition of AMFM in October 1999. *July 29 – WWWE in Cleveland, Ohio (long nicknamed "3WE") reverts to their original WTAM call letters, now branded as "WTAM 1100." *August 15 – Adult Complementary-formatted KHHT/Denver (now KQKS) flips to Top 40 as "K-HITS 107.5" *October – Radio4all.net is founded. *October 30 – KPTY debuts as Arizona's Party Station after stunting with various genres of music *November 18 – Radio Disney begins broadcasting. *WBOB and KQQL, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota are sold to Chancellor Communications. *The United Auto Workers invest in United Broadcasting Network, which later became I.E. America Radio Network. UAW's president at the time, Stephen Yokich, saw UBN as a way to promote the union's ideals and counter conservative radio talk show hosts. *KILT in Houston, Texas flips to sports. *River City FM is sold to The Radio Network. 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「1996 in radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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