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1959 in radio

Index 1959 in radio

The year 1959 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. [1]

35 relations: Adventures in Good Music, American football, Ancestry.com, Backstage Wife, Beaumont, Texas, Buddy Holly, CBS, Clear Lake, Iowa, Cris Collinsworth, Danny Bonaduce, Detroit, Jerry Springer, Joe Bevilacqua, Karl Haas, KNEW (AM), KVI, KZZB, Len Doyle, Matthew Casey, Michigan, Mr. District Attorney, Mutual Broadcasting System, Our Gal Sunday, Playwright, Radio broadcasting, Randi Rhodes, Ritchie Valens, Seattle, Sports commentator, The Big Bopper, The Day the Music Died, The Kate Smith Show, Tulane University, WJR, WTUL.

Adventures in Good Music

Adventures in Good Music, hosted by Karl Haas, was radio's most widely listened-to classical music program, aired nationally in the U.S. from 1970 to 2007.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Backstage Wife

Backstage Wife is an American soap opera radio program that details the travails of Mary Noble, a girl from a small town in Iowa who came to New York seeking her future.

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Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Clear Lake, Iowa

Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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Cris Collinsworth

Anthony Cris Collinsworth (born January 27, 1959) is a former professional American football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, all with the Cincinnati Bengals, during the 1980s.

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Danny Bonaduce

Dante Daniel "Danny" Bonaduce (born August 13, 1959) is an American radio/television personality, comedian, professional wrestler, and former child actor.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Jerry Springer

Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is an American television presenter, former lawyer, politician, news presenter, actor, and musician.

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Joe Bevilacqua

Joe Bevilacqua (born January 2, 1959) is an American actor, voice actor, producer, director, author, dramatist, humorist, cartoonist, and documentarian.

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Karl Haas

Karl Haas (December 6, 1913February 6, 2005) was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and popularization of classical music.

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KNEW (AM)

KNEW (960 AM) is an American business talk radio station licensed to Oakland, California, which serves the San Francisco Bay Area.

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KVI

KVI (570 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Seattle, Washington.

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KZZB

KZZB (990 AM, 107.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Beaumont, Texas.

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Len Doyle

Len Doyle (February 2, 1893 - December 6, 1959) was an American actor on stage and in old-time radio.

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Matthew Casey

Matthew Casey is a fictional character on the NBC drama Chicago Fire, portrayed by actor Jesse Spencer.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Mr. District Attorney

Mr.

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Mutual Broadcasting System

The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network; corporate name Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc.) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999.

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Our Gal Sunday

Our Gal Sunday was an American soap opera produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, network broadcast via CBS from March 29, 1937, to January 2, 1959, starring Dorothy Lowell and, after Lowell's 1944 death, Vivian Smolen in the title role.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is transmission by radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.

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Randi Rhodes

Randi Joyce Robertson (née Bueten; January 28, 1959), better known by her air name Randi Rhodes, is an American progressive political commentator, activist and talk radio host.

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Ritchie Valens

Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Ritchie Valens, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sports commentator

In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer, sportscaster or play-by-play announcer) gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense.

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The Big Bopper

Jiles Perry "J.

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The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.

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The Kate Smith Show

The Kate Smith Show is a half-hour variety program which aired on CBS television from January 25 to July 18, 1960.

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Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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WJR

WJR (760 AM) is a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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WTUL

WTUL is a progressive/alternative FM radio outlet in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, operating at 91.5 MHz with an ERP of 1,500 watts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_radio

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