1978 in radio

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The year 1978 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting .

Events [ edit ]

February 8 ? Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. ^[1]
April 8 ? Proceedings of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are broadcast on radio regularly for the first time.
May 6 ? Bob Kingsley , producer of the syndicated " American Country Countdown ," takes over as host. He replaces Don Bowman, who had hosted for the first 4½ years. Kingsley will helm the program for 27 years.
July ? WHTT of Moline, Illinois but with studios in Davenport, Iowa switches call letters to WXLP and changes its format from country to album-oriented rock . The station adopts the nickname "97X."
September 18 ? In television , American situation comedy WKRP in Cincinnati (1978?1982), featuring the misadventures of the staff of a struggling radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio .
October 7 ? " American Top 40 " expands from three to four hours. Several new features are added to the program, which is reaching its peak in popularity.

Likely fall ? WEMO (101.3 FM) of East Moline, Illinois switches its adult contemporary/MOR format to country music , and changes its call letters to WZZC. The new station, an ancestor to WLLR , stabilizes an FM country music format, which ? except for a brief run in 1977-1978 on WHTT-FM (96.9 FM) ? had been absent from the Quad Cities market for more than five years.
Bill Ballance leaves KGBS for KFMB in San Diego , where he is to remain for fifteen years.

8 March ? The first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the radio series later to be turned into a book, a television programme, a game, and a film - is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
3 July ? The radio play Pearl by John Arden is first performed.
24 December ? In Sweden , pirate radio station Radio FM in Stockholm goes on air.

29 January ? Adventure Theater (a children's program, not to be confused with Adventure Theater , a 1956 anthology series on NBC ) ends its run on network radio. ^[2]
31 December ? In Sweden , Frukostklubben ends.

March 23 ? Simon Gardenfors , Swedish cartoonist and radio host
May 18 ? Carolina Bermudez , radio personality on the syndicated Elvis Duran and the Morning Zoo program originating from New York on WHTZ (Z100)
June 8 ? Imad Kotbi , Moroccan radio presenter and DJ
June 29 ? Charlamagne tha God , American radio personality on The Breakfast Club
July 18 ? Annie Mac (Manus), Irish-born radio DJ
October 31 ? Ella McSweeney , Irish broadcast producer and journalist
December 25 ? Paula Seling , Romanian singer and radio DJ

January 19 ? Donald McCullough , British broadcaster (b. 1901)
March 27 ? Wilfred Pickles , English radio presenter (b. 1904)
April 28 ? Walter Fischer , Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official (b. 1901) ^[3]
June 29 ? Bob Crane , American actor, drummer, radio host and DJ (b. 1928 )

^ "Advice and Consent: The Panama Canal Treaties" . archives.gov . Retrieved 2018-06-16 .
^ Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3 .
^ "Walter Fischer, 1901?1978" . UeLEX .

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