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The year 1983 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

• August 2 - WHTZ (Z100) in New York City debuts, soon becoming one of the most influential CHR stations in the US.
• KABG in Cambridge, Minnesota becomes KXLV
• KDWB-FM in Minneapolis, Minnesota flips from album-oriented rock to CHR, a format it still carries today.
• Emmis Broadcasting purchases CHR-formatted WLOL in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• WCCO-FM in Minneapolis, Minnesota flips from adult contemporary to CHR, then back again (as WLTE) later that year.
• December - KYA moves to 93.3 FM, AM station becomes KOIT

Debuts

• April 15 - American Public Radio is founded (becomes Public Radio International in 1994).
• Joe Castiglione joins the Boston Red Sox broadcast team, teamed with Ken Coleman
• Jam Radio, the University of Hull's student radio station becomes the first student station to obtain a medium wave license.

Closings

• March 16 - The Transmitter Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.
• KMEL ends its weekly countdown show, hosted by 78-year old Ruth Bennett, mother of the station's former morning host Alex Bennett.

Births

• August 16 - Colin Griffiths, TV presenter and DJ
• October 10 - Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ

Deaths

• March 16 - Arthur Godfrey, 27-year host of Arthur Godfrey Time on CBS, as well as host of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (on radio from 1946-1956; on TV from 1948-1958). One of history's most influential broadcast personalities.

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