1984 in radio

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The year 1984 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

June 18 - Controversial KOA/Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg gunned down in driveway of his home.
Sports writer Ralph Barbieri joined KNBR to host his own sports talk show.
In October, CKLW-AM in Windsor, Ontario, the former "Big 8" Top 40 giant plagued by falling ratings for years, fires 79 staffers and goes mostly automated in preparation for a format change to Music of Your Life on January 1, 1985. CKLW's FM sister station CFXX experiments with a Top 40/Rock hybrid format called "94 Fox FM" in some dayparts, but its application to make "The Fox" a full-time format is denied by the CRTC and the experiment lasts only a few months.

Jim Bannon, 73, actor in radio and Hollywood western films during the 1940s and 1950s.
Alan Berg, 50, Denver, Colorado-based liberal radio talk show host and former attorney.