2004 in radio

The year 2004 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

Events

• 30 October - In the UK a 163-metre-high radio mast at Peterborough collapses in a fire.

Debuts

• 1 January - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk's cultural channel MDR Kultur is relaunched as MDR Figaro.
• 5 January – The Ed Schultz Show is launched.
• 31 March - Launch of Air America Radio, with affiliates in New York (WLIB), Chicago (WNTD), Los Angeles (KBLA), San Bernadino (KCAA), Portland (KPOJ), West Palm Beach, Florida (WJNO), and Minneapolis (WMNN).
• 19 April - Alex Bennett launches his new show on Sirius Left.
• 30 June - Pittsburgh radio station WBZZ, "B94", drops its 23-year old Top 40/CHR format for active rock as "93-7 K-Rock" WRKZ.
• 1 July - KRBV in Dallas, TX drops its Top 40 format as "Wild 100.3" and change to Jack FM with KJKK as the station's new callsign.
• September - The Stephanie Miller Show
• 18 November - WCKW, New Orleans, Louisiana drops Adult Contemporary for Rhythmic/Dance as WDVW ("Diva 92.3").
• october 28-Eminem Radio Channel Shade 45 debuts

Closings

• May - Westwood One ends production of "NBC Radio News"-branded morning-drive newscasts, produced by CBS Radio personnel, one of the few remaining links to the original NBC Radio Network. The move came a year after the launch of the non-related "NBC News Radio" in an arrangement with NBC and Westwood One (that service would be expanded to a round-the-clock basis on April 1, 2012). Usage of the NBC Radio "Hotline" satellite chirp was also retired.
• 27 February - I.E. America Radio Network ends operations,
• 15 December - Brian Beirne retires from KRTH.

Deaths

• Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality
• David Brudnoy, 64, Boston radio talk show host, cancer
• Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer
• Dennis R. ("Dick") Covington, 77, American radio broadcaster, KYW, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer
• John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling"
• Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest
• David Grierson, 49, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television host
• Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality
• Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
• Chuck Niles, 76, only jazz disc jockey to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• John Peel, 65, British radio disc jockey
• Bill Randle, 81, Cleveland and New York disc jockey; presenter of the first Elvis Presley concert north of the Mason-Dixon Line (in Brooklyn, Ohio).
• Norman Rose, 87, radio and TV actor, All My Children voice of Juan Valdez
• Molly Weir, 94, Scottish TV and radio actress

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