1993 in radio

The year 1993 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

• WIBF debuts its modern rock in Jenkintown/Philadelphia
• March 13: Eagle 106 WEGX becomes WJJZ Smooth Jazz 106.1 and featured Smooth Jazz format. the final song played for Eagle 106 was I Will Remember You by Amy Grant. the station was now WISX.
• April 30: Virgin Radio, originally called Virgin 1215 was launched nationally in the United Kingdom on 1215 kHz at 12.15pm by Richard Branson. It has since become the most listened to online radio station in the world.

Debuts

• November 1: Flagler College's WFCF/88.5 begins broadcasting with a 12-hour per day schedule and a power level of 6 kilowatts (later to be upped to 10 kW)
• Art Bell begins national syndication of his late night talk show.

Closings

• Bill Ballance retires from radio after more than 50 years in the industry.
• September — Final broadcast of Bit, byte, gebissen, a German program on computer topics, produced by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting).

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