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The year 1976 in radio involved some significant events.

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Closings
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

Events

September - Fairchild Industries sells WYOO-FM and AM in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The AM becomes WAYL and the FM station becomes a simulcast of KDWB
KXOL in Dallas, Texas flips from Top 40 to country music

Debuts

March 8 - Radio 210 (now 2-Ten FM) begins broadcasting to the Reading area.^[1]
March 16 - Downtown Radio, the first Independent Local Radio in Northern Ireland, begins broadcasting to the Belfast area.^[1]
April 12 - Beacon Radio (was Beacon Radio, Beacon Radio 303) begins broadcasting to the Wolverhampton area; this is the final station in the first wave of Independent Local Radio stations to begin transmission.^[1]

Closings

Births

October 21 - Lindsay Brien, American radio personality in Atlanta, Georgia, entertainment reporter for Headline News, and part of MTV's The Real World Seattle season in 1998.
December 21 - Clarence Black, Detroit, Michigan sports radio personality and contestant on Survivor Africa.
Brody, American radio personality on WDGC-FM in Raleigh, North Carolina

Deaths

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Radiomusications: Radio Reference: Independent Local Radio Stations (TBS Editors); accessed 28 April 2008

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