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The year 1998 in radio involved some significant events. ==Events== *January 2 – A gunman shoots Antario Teodoro Filho, Brazilian politician and radio presenter, during a broadcast.〔http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/onstage.htm〕 *January 21 – Big 105 debuts with a Hot AC format (WBIX, now WWPR-FM) *March – Davenport, Iowa stations WLLR-FM (101.3 FM, a country station) and KUUL (103.7 FM, an oldies station) swap dial positions. *March 9 – Washington, D.C. stations WTEM 570-AM and WWRC 980-AM swap dial positions. Two weeks prior, WWRC, a former NBC Radio owned-and-operated station, switched to a business news format, and the 980-AM facility was upgraded to a 50,000 watt day/5,000 watt night signal. *March 28 — "American Top 40" returns to the airwaves, once again with Casey Kasem as the host. The show is actually the renamed "Casey's Top 40", which Kasem had hosted since its premiere in 1989. Kasem will remain with the program until December 2003. *May 31 — Nick Digilio broadcast his first program as part of The Nick D. & Garry Lee Show on WGN Radio. Nick had been reviewing movies with WGN Radio legend Roy Leonard since 1985. *August 13 — Jacor Communications completes a $620 million merger with the 17-station Nationwide Communications chain, all of which are spun off from the insurance company of the same name. The TV stations are sold to Young Broadcasting. *September 4 – KGLQ dropped its classic hits format and began stunting with a ticking clock. At 3PM that day, "Mix 96.9" debuts with a Hot AC format. *October 8 — Clear Channel Communications announces a $2.8 billion merger with Jacor Communications; the deal is approved the following May. *October 12 – Groove 103.1 KBCD and KACD sign off and become a simulcast of KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. *October — WMMS in Cleveland engages in "The Death of the Buzzard", a month-long event celebrating the station's legendary past, with a plethora of vintage airchecks, interviews and sounders. Rumors had the station retiring the WMMS call letters, rock format and Buzzard mascot in favor of the KISS-FM Top 40 format. This turns out in the end to be merely a stunt; only the airstaff is replaced, but the call letters, format and mascot remained. *November 2-After a goodbye weekend, WRCX/Chicago drops its 7-year old rock format for urban oldies, branded as "The Beat." New call letters WUBT were implemented on December 21. 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「1998 in radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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