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The year 1989 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.
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Events
- KSJN (AM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota becomes KNOW.
- KMEZ breaks away from its FM sister station to adopt a business-oriented news/talk format as KDBN.
- ABC Radio has acquired Satellite Music Network. This division is now known as "ABC Music Radio".
- 13 November – London Greek Radio, one of the United Kingdom's first all-ethnic radio stations, begins broadcasting.
- December – Kayla Satellite Network purchases Chuck Harder's Sun Radio Network (forerunner to I.E. America Radio Network. Harder's show was soon dropped from the network and he later started a new radio network, the Peoples Radio Network.
Debuts
- March – Mark Belling joins WISN in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada offers Art Bell a five-hour radio talk show time slot in the middle of the night, which later evolved into Coast to Coast AM.
Closings
Births
Deaths
- Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
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