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The year 1955 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.
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Events
- 2 May - Opening at Wrotham, Kent, of the United Kingdom's first VHF/FM transmitters.
- 22 September – The character Grace Archer dies in the BBC radio serial The Archers, a spoiler for the launch of ITV on the same day.
- 17 November – Creation of the Communauté des radios publiques de langue française (CRPLF) - an association of the French-language public broadcasters of France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Canada, later to become, in 2002, les Radios francophones publiques (RFP).
- 26 November - In Sweden, the national public broadcaster Radiotjänst (now Sveriges Radio) begins transmission, via FM, of its second radio channel in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, and Örebro.
Debuts
Closings
- March 10 – The Silver Eagle broadcasts its last episode.
- March 23 – The Big Story ends its run on NBC.
- May 22 – The Jack Benny Program airs its last radio episode and moves solely to television.
- June 7 – Lux Radio Theater ends its run on CBS.
Births
- February 10 - Jim Cramer, American television personality, former hedge fund manager and best-selling author.
- February 23 - Tom Bodett, American author, voice actor, radio host and current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6.
- October 4 - Dale Connelly, co-host (with Tom Keith, a.k.a. Jim Ed Poole) of The Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio.
Deaths
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