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The year 1999 in radio involved some significant events. ==Events== *January 4 – KOZN/Kansas City dropped its modern AC format and began stunting with ocean waves *January 5 – KOZN ends stunting and flips to adult contemporary, branded as "Star 102", and adopted the new call letters "KSRC." *April 5 – KHOT/Phoenix flips to Spanish Mexican music from Rhythmic Olides *May 13 - WXXM/Philadelphia flips from Modern AC "Max" to Rhythmic Oldies as WEJM, "Jammin' Gold" *August 6 – WWXY and WWYX (now WVIV-FM)/Chicago flip to an 80's hits format, branded as "The 80s Channel." *October - Clear Channel announces a nearly $16 billion merger with AMFM, creating America's largest radio group. The deal would close the following year after selling off surplus in multiple markets. This would be the largest broadcast deal in American history, a record that would stand until Clear Channel itself was bought out by private equity in 2007. *October 2 – 810 WHB/Kansas City flips to Sports Talk *November 4 – WYXR (now WRFF)/Philadelphia flips from Hot AC to "Rock Adult Contemporary", branded as "Alice 104.5" *December 1 – WZBA flips from Country music to Rock AC 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「1999 in radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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