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The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2016. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, and station launches, closures and format changes, as well as information about controversies.

Notable events

January

Date Event
1 Classic Hits WMXJ/Miami relaunches with a 80s-based format as "102.7 The Beach."[1]
KBIU/Lake Charles, Louisiana drops AC for Rhythmic Top 40 as "Hot 103.3." The flip brings the format back to the market after it was dropped by Nash Icon sibling KQLK in September 2014.[2]
After dropping the "Nash Icon" format for Christmas music as "Warm 98.9", then stunted again with AC on December 26,[3] followed by a series of hints of yet another flip via Twitter, W255CJ in Atlanta flipped back to Alternative and revived the "99X" branding.[4]
4 The Denver radio market will see the number of Sports stations increase to 5, with the addition of former Oldies KRWZ (the flagship station of the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Rapids; the flip to take place April 5),[5][6][7] and former Talk KDSP & K300CP (the flagship station for the Denver Broncos).[8] KDSP will also take the Fox Sports Radio affiliation from KKFN and KEPN, the latter becoming a full-time affiliate of ESPN Radio on the same day.[9]
KFMB-FM/San Diego, which dropped the Adult Top 40 format and Jack FM branding after 10 years and began stunting with a wheel of formats on December 26, 2015, debuted a Mainstream Rock format, branded as "KFM-BFM 100.7."[10]
WFWI/Fort Wayne, Indiana relaunched with hybrid Classic Adult Hits as "Big 92.3."[11]
5 For the first time since sister station KTWN-FM flipped to Top 40 in 2010, the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market picks up a Rhythmic Top 40 outlet, as KNOF drops its longtime Christian Contemporary format to become "Go 95.3," with an emphasis on cutting edge artists and local content.[12]
6 The KFWB License Trust announces the sale of Sports Talk KFWB/Los Angeles to Mercury Capital Partners, who'll flip the station to brokered multicultural programming. The move will leave the LA Galaxy without an English-language radio station, forcing the team to resort to Internet-only game broadcasts; the Los Angeles Clippers' broadcasts will move to KEIB.[13]
7 Rhythmic-leaning Top 40/CHR KTFM/San Antonio is relanched with a new branding, adopting Alpha Media's "Energy" moniker.[14]
14 Pittsburgh Public Media acquires Rhythmic Oldies WZUM, which will flip to Jazz as a simulcast of WYZR, which is expected to sign on later this year.[15]
19 iHeart Media shuffles its cluster lineup in the Puget Sound region. KYNW/Centralia flips from Adult Top 40 to Alternative as "Alt 102.9," which in turn results in KBKS-FM/Tacoma shifting from Top 40/CHR to Adult Top 40, with the former format moving to 93.3 and relaunched as "Power 93.3" (new calls to be KPWK), which results in KUBE-FM/Seattle and its Rhythmic Top 40 format to relocate to 104.9, replacing KKBW/Eatonville-Tacoma's Active Rock format.[16]
27 WHTI/Richmond flips from AC to Classic Hits as "Star 100.9," giving the Virginia Capitol city its second Classic Hits outlet as it takes on WBBT-FM[17]

February

Date Event
1 WYVL/Youngsville, Pennsylvania and WTWT/Bradford, Pennsylvania both flip from classic Christian rock to contemporary Christian music.
5 CHIQ-FM Winnipeg rebrands from "Fab 94.3" to "94.3 The Drive" as it shifts from oldies/classic hits to classic hits with an emphasis on '70s and '80s music.[18]
11 The Mark Levin Show signs a "lifetime contract" with Westwood One that will see the show continue to be carried on the network through at least 2025.[19]
12 Top 40/CHR WKSZ/Green Bay adds a simulcast for Appleton and the Fox Cities, where sister station WKZY//Chilton replaces the Adult Hits simulcast of WKZG. In addition, WKSZ brings back the morning team of Doug & Mary to replace the duo of Precious & Nikki, the former going to nights, the latter to sales for owner Woodward Communications.[20]
17 & 18 Univision Radio swaps callsigns and formats on 2 of its stations in Dallas/Fort Worth. 99.1 now receives the KFZO callsign while 107.9 gets the KDXX call letters on February 17. The stations are now swapped to Regional Mexican as "La Jefa 99.1" and Latin pop as a simulcast of KESS-FM "Latino Mix" respectively the following day.[21]
24 After nearly 11 months as an Adult Top 40, WLDB/Milwaukee shifts back to AC and revives the "B93.3" moniker.[22]
25 Adult Alternative CKUL-FM Halifax flips to Adult Top 40 as "Mix 96.5," putting the station in direct competition with rival station CIOO-FM.[23]
26 CFXJ-FM Toronto goes jockless in anticipation to make an expected shift from classic hip-hop after just a little over a year. On February 29, the station flipped to Rhythmic AC as "93.5 The Move."[24]
29 WIVG/Memphis drops Classic Hip-Hop for Alternative as "i96."[25]
After a 22-month run with Adult Alternative, CHPK-FM Calgary flips to Country as "Wild 95.3," giving the market its second Country outlet as it takes on market leader CKRY-FM.[26]

March

Date Event
1 WSTK/New Bern, North Carolina drops its Urban Gospel format to simulcast Dance Top 40 WEGG[27]
Cumulus Media pulls the plug on KSJO/San Jose-San Francisco's Nash FM Country format and moves it to the HD2 subchannel of Classic Rock sister KSAN. KSJO replaced the format with Bollywood music using the moniker "Bolly 92.3."[28]
4 Reno picks up its second Classic Hip-Hop outlet, as KLCA-HD3 & K223AL drops Active Rock to become "Power 92.5."[29]
7 Sheridan Broadcasting announced that they are filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, as the Pittsburgh-based syndicator fights off a legal battle with Access 1 Communications (through its subsidiary NBN Broadcasting) over ownership of American Urban Radio Networks, which Sheridan owns a 51% stake in and is trying to buy out the remaining 49% that is being contested by Access 1.[30] On May 17, Access.1 acquired AURN as part of a settlement deal with Sheridan, who'll continue to own the news and sports operations with AURN handling core programming and affiliate sales.[31]
Just one year after relaunching with Adult Top 40 and changing owners, KNXR/Rochester, Minnesota flips to Classic Rock Hits as "Minnesota 97.5," and joins a crowded field that includes Oldies KVGO and Classic Rock KRCH.[32]
9 Univision Radio begins rebranding its Regional Mexican stations. KSCA/Los Angeles, KOND/Fresno and KISF/Las Vegas are monikered as "ZonaMX," KGBT-FM/McAllen, Texas adopts the "LaJefa" moniker, and "Que Buena" will become the identifier for WQBU-FM: New York City, KROM: San Antonio, KLNO: Dallas-Ft. Worth, KSOL/KSQL-FM: San Jose/San Francisco, KLQB: Austin, WOJO: Chicago, KHOT-FM: Phoenix and KLNV: San Diego.[33]
10 Premiere Networks announces the syndication of its first non-iHeartMedia produced program with the national distribution of the KQMV/Seattle morning show Brooke & Jubal, which already has four stations airing the program.[34]
11 After eight years of Oldies, WQKS-FM/Montgomery flips to AC as "Kiss 96.1."[35]
After a five-year run with Modern AC, KLCK-FM/Seattle drops the format and begins stunting and uses the Rickrolling ploy to keep everyone guessing. At Noon on March 16, The Hubbard Broadcasting station flipped to Mainstream Rock as KVRQ, "Rock 98.9," and joined a crowded field of Rock outlets that includes rival KISW, Alternatives KNDD and KFOO, and Classic Rock KZOK.[36]
15 CBS Radio returns the WNEW-FM calls to New York City and to its original home at 102.7 after a nine-year absence (CBS moved the calls to West Palm Beach and recently to Annapolis during that time).[37]
CBS Corporation confirmed reports that it is planning to spin off its CBS Radio division within the next year. The move would put 117 stations in 26 markets up for sale, making it attractive to buyers.[38]
16 KIKI/ Honolulu drops Conservative Talk to become a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, and will serve as the Hawaii affiliate for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tennessee Titans (the latter due to Honolulu-born Marcus Mariotta being the team's quarterback).[39]
18 After spending the last two years with Adult Top 40, WMIA-FM/ Miami returns to Rhythmic Hot AC, billed as "93.9MIA."[40]
21 Two rival classic hits stations in Central New York, WZUN/Phoenix, New York and WSEN-FM/Baldwinsville, New York, merge. The resulting station will occupy WZUN's license and frequency (102.1), use WSEN-FM's call sign and carry the music library and airstaff of both stations. WSEN-FM's former frequency of 92.1 was spun off to the religious Family Life Network,[41] who in turn traded the station to Craig Fox in exchange for WOLF-FM (105.1)/De Ruyter and WWLF-FM (96.7)/Oswego. WOLF's country music format and calls will then move to 92.1, with Family Life's programming moving onto 105.1 and 96.7, marking the first inroads into Central New York for the religious broadcaster.[42]
24 After three years with Top 40/CHR, WZJZ/Fort Myers, Florida shifts to Adult Top 40 with emphasis on 90s and Y2K recurrents.[43]
30 Emmis Communications' WQHT/New York City becomes the first radio station in the United States to license its annual concert series to another country, as Japan's Avex Live Creative will hold the inaugural "Hot 97 Summer Jam Tokyo" event on July 29 at Zepp Tokyo.[44]
31 In Salt Lake City, KUDD's Top 40 format migrates to KAUU, giving them better signal coverage. Rhythmic Top 40 sister KUUU is expected to move down from 92.5 to 92.3 once its greenlighted by the FCC.[45]

April

Date Event
4 After eight years of Spanish Religious, KOTK/Omaha returns to Conservative Talk and replaces the FM translator broadcast of Christian Preaching sister KCRO with a simulcast, billing themselves as "94.5/1260 The Answer."[46]
5 KGO/San Francisco relaunches its News/Talk format with a newly revamped direction and new lineup. The Cumulus Media outlet dismissed the entire air staff March 31 and began stunting in anticipation of the changeover. Originally, 40-year veteran Ronn Owens was expected to join Conservative Talk sister KSFO/560 for afternoons, remains with KGO due to a clause in his contract that prevents him from going to another station.[47]
6 A trio of Entercom's San Francisco Bay Area stations, Sports KGMZ, Urban AC KBLX-FM, and Classic Rock KUFX, will start simulcasting Oakland Raiders broadcasts as part of a extended deal. KGMZ, who had been the flagship station for the Raiders since 2012, will continue in that capacity.[48]
Northern Kentucky University announced that they are exploring a possible sale of WNKU/Highland Heights, Kentucky and satellite sisters WNKN/Middletown, Ohio and WNKE/New Boston, Ohio. The move comes in the wake of significant funding cuts from the state of Kentucky, as Governor Matt Bevin is proposing a 4.5% budget cut for Kentucky's colleges and universities, thus affecting the stations' future.[49]
7 Margaret Carole Bowen, a former General Sales Manager for CBS Radio's Country WKIS/Miami, files a lawsuit against the company for age discrimination, claiming that eight months after she was "Let Go" by CBS Radio after its acquisition of Beasley Broadcasting's Miami stations, retained the jobs of two GSMs who are younger than she is (both are in their 40s, including one that had been with the company after less than a year). Bowen, who is 59, also claims that two former employees, both 61 and 57, were also forced out in favor of younger personnel.[50]
13 KISQ/San Francisco's 19-year tenure with Rhythmic AC/Oldies comes to a end, as the iHeart Media outlet flips to AC as "98.1 The Breeze."[51]
WHBL/Sheboygan, Wisconsin launches an FM translator at 101.5, W268BR/Sheboygan, carrying its news/talk format with a minor rebranding to "1330 & 101.5, WHBL".[52]
18 KYWY/Cheyenne, Wyoming shifts from Adult Top 40 to AC as "Star 92.9."[53]
19 Davis Media sells one of its Columbia, South Carolina stations, WWNU, to Radio Training Network, who will flip the station to Christian AC in May. Davis was expected to move WWNU's Adult Alternative format to Country WWNQ,[54] but on May 25 announced that the latter would be sold to Midlands Media Group, who plans to retain the existing format.[55]
21 Soft AC KIFM/San Diego rebrands from "Easy 98.1" to "Sunny 98.1" and adjusts its direction to a broader current AC presentation.[56]
22 Educational Media Foundation adds another Air1 satellite affiliate to its lineup with the purchase of CP KIMI/Malvern, Iowa. The station will cover the Omaha market at the 107.7 frequency, which has been a subject of disputes between the previous two applicants and the Federal Aviation Administration over the signal itself.[57]
24 Nash FM formatted WRKN-FM: LaPlace/New Orleans repositions its branding to Adult-leaning Country as it expand its coverage to Baton Rouge due to the station's signal coverage.[58]
25 Community Wireless officially launches Adult Alternative "107.9 The Mountain" on the newly acquired KUMT/Randolph-Salt Lake City, but a dispute on May 5 resulted in Community Wireless terminating its deal with operator Mike Summers to oversee the station. Community Wireless will take over operations in the coming days.[59]
26 Wilks Broadcasting officially ceases as a company with the sale of its 3 Reno outlets to different operators. Country KWFP and Classic Rock KURK are sold to Reno-based Evans Broadcasting Company, while Lotus Broadcasting adds Adult Alternative KTHX to its six-station cluster in the market.[60]
27 iHeartMedia and the Los Angeles Dodgers restructure their ownership arrangement of KLAC/Los Angeles. The Sports outlet will be spun off into a new company, Los Angeles Radio Partners, with iHeart owning 51% and Dodgers-owned LARadioCo increasing its stake to 49%. As part of this deal, iHeart has agreed not to launch a competing Sports station in the Los Angeles market for the next 15 years without the Dodgers' consent.[61]
28 KDCO/Denver adds a FM translator at 104.7, allowing the "Mile High Sports" outlet to cover the areas not served by the AM.[62]
29 In a surprise prank posted on YouTube in which the general manager was about to fire the midday personality, it was actually a announcement to listeners from WTUG-FM/Tuscaloosa, Alabama that they are flipping from Urban AC to R&B/Hip-Hop on this day and the air staffer was promoted to PD effective with the flip.[63]

May

Date Event
2 Entercom scores a major deal to broadcast San Diego Padres games for the next five years on Alternative KBZT, starting with the 2017 season, ending XEPRS-AM's 12-year run with the National League West franchise, which ends this year.[64]
KABQ-FM: Bosque Farms/Albuquerque drops Classic Hits for 1980s' music.[65]
KLLE: Fresno drops Hispanic Rhythmic for Regional Mexican as "Zona MX 107.9," with sister KOND now skewing older material.[66]
4 After 33 years, "Coach" Larry Price announced that he will no longer serve as co-host of Perry & Price on AC KSSK-FM/Honolulu, as he will return to doing sports broadcasting as a host of a weekly show on sister station KIKI. Michael W. Perry, his long time partner, will continue as a solo host at KSSK.[67]
11 The Active Rock format of WTFX-FM: Louisville relocates to the HD2 sub channel of WQMF, whose main HD1 channel also flips from Classic Rock to Mainstream Rock effective with the change. Later on the same day, WTFX flipped to urban as "93.1 The Beat" to challenge Alpha Media's WGZB, who is taking overall market share away from WTFX's sister stations WHAS (AM) and WAMZ.[68]
12 Educational Media Foundation expands its presence in the Boise market with the purchase of Oldies KKOO and Spanish Adult Hits KTRP. Both stations will become K-Love affiliates and sister stations to Air1 affiliate KARO.[69]
19 The Miami Dolphins switch flagship stations for the 2016 season as it signs a long term contract with WQAM and WKIS to carry its games after six years with WBGG-FM. This will be the third time that the NFL franchise has associated with the stations, having carried its broadcasts from 1997 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2009.[70]
20 WZRR: Birmingham is the latest Nash Icon station to drop the format, as it temporarily flipped to hybrid Americana/Country Rock as "99.5 The South."[71] It turned out to be a stunt however; on May 24, WZRR officially flipped to Talk as "Talk 99.5."[72]
25 iHeartMedia makes another adjustment in its Louisville cluster, as Adult Top 40 WLGX is rebranded as "100.5 Kiss FM".[73]
27 At 3 pm (PT), after playing "Ignition" by R. Kelly, Adult-leaning Rhythmic Hot AC KSSX: San Diego officially made the transition to Urban-leaning Rhythmic Contemporary, relaunching as "Jam'n 95.7," with an emphasis on Hip-Hop and R&B Hits.[74] This brings the Rhythmic Top 40 format back to San Diego after XHITZ made the transition to Top 40/CHR in February 2014.
Another station owned by Cumulus Media drops the Nash Icon Country format, as KRRF: Oxnard/Ventura flips to Classic Hip-Hop as "Spin 106.3."[75]

Scheduled future events

July

Date Event
2 Garrison Keillor, after alternating hosting duties for much of the previous season with Chris Thile, will host his final episode of A Prairie Home Companion, the show he created in 1974. When the show returns on October 15 with Thile as sole host, it will no longer include several of the series' signature old-time radio sketches, such as "News from Lake Wobegon," "Guy Noir, Private Eye" and "Dusty and Lefty, the Lives of the Cowboys."[76]

December

Date Event
31 The Rush Limbaugh Show's contract with Premiere Networks (which took effect in 2008) is set to expire,[77] as is a bulk carriage agreement with approximately 35 Cumulus Media stations that dates to 2013.[78] If he does not renew with Premiere, Limbaugh's last day on the network will likely be no later than December 23, as he typically takes the period between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day off.

Debuts

Date Event
February 5 Just eight years after it left the air due to economic conditions, KBDS/Bakersfield, California returns to the air with its Rhythmic Contemporary format, this time branding itself as "103.9 The Beat," and adding to a increasing Top 40 war as they face Rhythmic rival KISV and Mainstream rivals KKXX-FM and KLLY.[79]
March 21 The Maryland Transit Administration becomes the first transit agency in the United States to operate a low-power radio station with the launch of WTTZ-LP in Baltimore, which carries traffic information during rush hours and smooth jazz at other hours.[80]

Closings

Date Event
January 31 Live365 officially ceases operations on this date due to the increased fees placed into effect by the Copyright Royalty Board and the expiration of the Webcasters Settlement Act of 2009, which saw its investors withdraw their stake in the internet broadcaster.[81]
February 13 After 12 years, Sirius XM discontinues the LGBT-focused channel OutQ on this date, with online streaming ending on February 18. The move also leaves most of its lineup (Michael Musto, Lance Bass, Frank DeCaro, and Keith Price) displaced, although Larry Flick will stay at Sirius XM as part of Entertainment Weekly radio and Studio 54 Radio.[82]
March 11 After 36 years as a air staffer and programmer, Norm Winer leaves Adult Alternative WXRT/Chicago to pursue other opportunities.[83]
March 23 After 36 years as a fixture on Toledo radio (at WSPD, WKKO, and WRVF), citing a planned retirement with her husband, and battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Mary Beth Zolik broadcasts her last morning program as part of Mary Beth & Rick on WRVF.[84]
March 30 After 12 years broadcasting a Christian AC format across the state of Florida via 24 translators and 4 HD2 sub channels, Calvary Chapel of Ft. Lauderdale closes operations of Reach-FM, which was based at flagship station WREH. The ministries will leave the programming automated until WREH and the properties are sold off.[85]
March 31 William Bennett, host of Salem Radio Network's national morning show Morning in America for the past decade, retires from radio, with Salem hiring Larry Elder to replace Bennett in a three-way move that will see Hugh Hewitt's show moved into Bennett's time slot and Elder returning to his previous West Coast afternoon drive time slot that he previously hosted for ABC.[86]
April 21 After a nine-year run, Radio One cancels Yolanda Adams' syndicated morning show after the company decides not to renew the Grammy Award-winning Gospel singer's contract.[87]
April 28 After a 32-year run on radio, Drew Pinsky announces that Loveline will air its final broadcast on this date.[88] Pinsky and co-host Mike Catherwood will continue to be heard on a local daytime show on KABC, with Matt Pinfield replacing Loveline in syndication.
May 14 Definitely Not the Opera airs its final original episode on CBC Radio One. DNTO, which had aired on the network since 1994 and was hosted by Sook-Yin Lee since 2002, was a Saturday afternoon mix of music, pop culture, interviews, and storytelling features.[89]
June 25 Whad'Ya Know? will air its final live broadcast. Distributed by Public Radio International, the Saturday morning comedy/interview/quiz program has been hosted by Michael Feldman and produced by Wisconsin Public Radio since its launch in 1985.[90]

Deaths

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