February 12: Two radio stations in Guinea, FM Liberté and Radio Familia, are attacked and besieged by members of the presidential guard.[2]
February 5: In Baghdad, Iraqi police find the murdered body of Abduirazak Hashim Ayal al-Khakani, a journalist employed by the news service of Jumhuriyat al-Iraq radio.[3]
March 3: A number of format changes are announced at Cumulus Media-owned radio stations in the Quad Cities. WXLP (96.9 FM) begins using its former moniker, 97X, and is reborn as a classic hits-leaning towards classic rock format. The active rock format that had been at WXLP since 2004 (as "97 Rock") is moved to KBOB-FM (104.9 FM), which is rebranded "Rock 104.9." The 104.9 FM frequency's country music format, which had been there since 2000 and associated with the call letters KBOB since 1994, is abandoned, leaving Cumulus without a country music station in the Quad-Cities market.[6]
March 6: Air America Radio restructures, with politician Mark Green and his brother Stephen at the helm. Among the changes (see also "Closures"):
Sam Seder discontinues his weekday show and moves to Sunday afternoons on Air America Radio.
April 12: The Imus in the Morning talk show is canceled by MSNBC, and host Don Imus is fired for remarks made about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. The controversy evolved into firing as a violation of the civil rights of free speech.
June 12: Citadel Broadcasting's purchase of most ABC Radio assets closes, and restructuring takes place.
June 22: WKBF (1270 AM) of Rock Island, Illinois, flips from Christian talk (as "Truth 1270") to "La Pantera," a Spanish and Mexican music format, following the frequency's sale from Quad Cities Media to La Jefa Latino Broadcasting. The station's new format allows WKBF to become the first full-time Spanish-language radio station in the Quad Cities and stabilizes the station's format, which had changed several times since 1995.
June 29: Tom Kent resigns as host of his programs on the TKO Radio Network, the network he launched as a 24-hour network in the same year; he maintains ownership of the network and is replaced behind the microphone by John Landecker and Marty Thompson.
August 10: ABC Radio discontinues syndication of Larry Elder; his show continues on KABC in Los Angeles and reverts to a local show. All other affiliates are switched over to Mark Levin's show, also syndicated by ABC in the same time slot.
September 4: Russia's government appoints a new prosecutor to take forward the trial of the murderers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya the previous year.[10]
October 1: Patrick returns on KLAC in Los Angeles and syndicated through the Content Factory.
October 5: Long-time PittsburghCHR station "B94", returns to the air after flipping to rock (and later "male" talk) in 2004.
October 8:
WEXM (formerly WNOU) in Indianapolis, Indiana changes to Christmas music, the first station in the country to do so, as a "stunt format" for the next three months. The first non-stunting stations to change over were KCKC in Kansas City and KOSY-FM in Salt Lake City, for the second year in a row, on the evening of October 31, among several other stations.
October 11: Government-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar blames US-sponsored Radio Free Asia for inciting violent protest.[13]
October 12: 99.3 and 104.5 Kiss FM, a Hot Adult Contemporary simulcast in Northwest PA operated by Forever Media, flips to Majic 99.3 and 104.5 - a jockless Variety Hits format. The call letters switch from WOXX to WHMJ (99.3) and WXXO to WXMJ (104.5)
October 26: It was announced that on November 3, WFUN would flip to ESPN Sports.[14][15]
October 29:
Astral Media takes over almost all of the former broadcasting assets of Standard Broadcasting in Canada.
December 5: Controversial radio host J. R. Gach leaves the Internet and the airwaves after a lawsuit involving comments he made in February 2006 is settled for nearly a million dollars.
January: Nepal Chautari, a topical live show, is launched, transmitted live through 58 FM Radio Stations across Nepal using the Ujyalo Satellite Channel of Communication Corner and CIN Channel.
February 20: The Tony Kornheiser Show. This is the day that Kornheiser returned to radio on WTWP (now WWWT) and XM 144 after his first stint on Monday Night Football. The show will go on hiatus June 30 as Kornheiser returns for one more season on MNF.
May 17: San Francisco classic hits station KFRC is revived on 106.9 FM. The format had previously been on 99.7 FM until it switched to the Movin' format in September 2006.
June 25: The Phil Hendrie Show. Initially intended to be a more political and issues oriented program, the show quickly reverted to a format similar to its previous format.
August 23: Bob Grant. Grant's sudden return to the network came one day after the official announcement of his rehiring.
John Batchelor. October 7. Replaces Brian Whitman on WABC and returns to radio after his daily show, also on WABC (and later syndicated by ABC Radio), was cancelled in September 2006. Batchelor also debuts another three-hour show on KFI, dealing with the same topics, immediately after the WABC show.
WWVA Jamboree/Jamboree USA'. January 6. The long-running country music show, which had aired since 1933 on WWVA/Wheeling, West Virginia, is canceled as the station streamlines its focus on its talk radio format. It will be revived in 2009 by crosstown talk station WKKX as WWVA's then-sister property Live Nation spins off the program - now renamed the Wheeling Jamboree - to a non-profit organization.
The Al Franken Show. February 14. Franken left his show on Air America Radio to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
Free FM. In a series of moves beginning in May 2007, CBS Radio phased out the hot talk network by changing several stations' formats and rebranding most others.
Classical music station WFMR in Milwaukee ends 51 years on the air when the station flips to a Smooth jazz format as WJZX June 26
Adventures in Good Music: Producer and distributor WCLV announced "with great regret" that it would broadcast and syndicate its last encore episode of Adventures in Good Music with Karl Haas on June 29, 2007.
July 1: Art Bell announces his retirement from weekend hosting, effective immediately, but will host occasional shows in the future.
July 2: Utawarerumono Radio, Japan's first Internet radio show, ends its run on the broadcast station Oto Izumi.[citation needed]
August 17: Greenstone Media. Women's talk network folds after slightly over a year on the air. The network only gained 8 affiliates in its short life.
Washington Post Radio. September 19. The short-lived attempt at a long-form commercial all-news radio station in the style of NPR, run by The Washington Post, ended as Bonneville switches its network of stations to 3WT Talk Radio.
Matt Drudge's Sunday night show. September 30. Drudge left the timeslot; Premiere Radio Networks replaced him with Bill Cunningham.
ABC News & Talk. September 24. Closed by ABC Radio in restructuring.
Doug Hoerth. December 3. Renda Broadcasting, owners of WPTT in Pittsburgh, announce they are not renewing Hoerth's contract after a ten-year run as the station's morning and later afternoon host.
December 20 - After three years as "Diva 92.3" WDVW in New Orleans flips from Rhythmic/Dance to Adult Top 40 as "Mix 92.3."
John London's Inferno. December 25. The show failed in syndication due to a lack of affiliates.
Deaths
3 January: János Fürst, 71, Hungarian violinist and conductor, former member of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra[38]
^Carmen Cagnoni (September 15, 2007). "As marcas no dial". Portal de Comunicação (in Portuguese). UOL. p. 1. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
