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In the year 1977, significant events in radio broadcasting included the President of the United States participating in a call-in radio program.

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Closings
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

18 February – Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) is founded and takes over responsibility for public-service radio broadcasting in the German language in Belgium.
March 5 - President Jimmy Carter participates with Walter Cronkite in the Dial-a-President radio program on CBS.
May 12 - WTIC-FM in Hartford, CT switches from classical music to a new Top 40 format designed by consultant Mike Joseph. This successful new approach will later be termed Hot Hits.

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Births

November - Heidi Cortez, American model, writer, and radio host

Deaths

Bud Ballou, radio disc jockey
Sid Collins, (55, American broadcaster best known as the radio voice of the Indianapolis 500 on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network from 1952-1976.
Bing Crosby, 74, American singer, actor and early radio personality.

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