1980 in radio

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The year 1980 in radio involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• March 20 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline sinks.

[edit] Debuts

• Alex Bennett returned to his native San Francisco, California to host a comedy-oriented morning show for album-oriented rock station KMEL. The show would last for the next 17 years on three different area radio stations.

[edit] Closings

[edit] Births

• October 9 - Sarah X Dylan, radio and television personality in Portland, Oregon, United States, where she produces The Rick Emerson Show on KCMD

[edit] Deaths

• July 24 - Peter Sellers, English actor, comedian and radio personality (b. 1925)