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The year 1985 in radio involved some significant events.

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Closings
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

January 1 - CKLW Windsor, Ontario adopts the Music of Your Life format.
March 28 - A Roger Waters concert is broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall. It is the first time that holophonics is used for a live radio broadcast.
The year brings other significant changes in Detroit radio, as WDRQ flips from urban contemporary to soft AC as WLTI, and WCLS flips from AC to rock-based Top 40 as WDTX.

Debuts

WZLX (100.7 FM) in Boston debuts with the classic rock format.
Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich debuts with Bit, byte, gebissen, the first radio program on computer topics in Germany.
In July, after stunting with Christmas carols, WKJJ-FM "Magic 100" Louisville, Kentucky flips from Adult Contemporary to CHR as WDJX.

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