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The year 2003 in radio involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Closings
4 Deaths

Events

October 10 - Facing an investigation surrounding allegations of illegal drug use, American right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh publicly admits that he is addicted to prescription pain killers, and will seek treatment.

Debuts

March 3 - Skratch 'N Sniff debuts on San Diego area alternative rock station XETRA-FM (91.1 FM, "91X").
March 31 - "NBC News Radio," an hourly service of one-minute news updates anchored by NBC News and MSNBC personnel (but written by Westwood One staffers) is launched. Westwood One still maintains production of the unrelated five-minute long "NBC Radio News"-branded newscasts in morning drive (which had been produced and anchored by CBS Radio personnel since 1998) for one more year; they were one of a few remaining connections to the original NBC Radio Network.
October 12 - Billboard unveils the Hot Dance Airplay chart. "Just The Way You Are" by Milky is the first number one single on the published chart. Original panel: WKTU/New York City, KDLD/Los Angeles, KKDL/Dallas-Fort Worth, WQSX/Boston, WPYM/Miami, KCJZ/San Antonio, KPTI/San Francisco and KNRJ/Phoenix. All stations have since left the Dance format and panel.

Closings

KMEO in Flower Mound, Texas ended their Memories format and began their Country format as KTYS.
Art Bell semi-retires from Coast to Coast AM, remains hosting weekends

Deaths

Larry Burkett, 64, American evangelical Christian author and radio personality.
Rod Roddy, 66, American top-40 disc jockey and announcer (better known for his work announcing television game shows).

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