19 January: Moscow Radio broadcasts criticism of the Sultan of Oman in Arabic. One of the accusations against him is that he allowed the setting up of a radio station called "Voice of the Free South" in opposition to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.[2]
14 February: All of ABC Radio's FM stations change call letters, all on the same day:
KABC-FM in Los Angeles becomes KLOS, for Los Angeles.
KGO-FM in San Francisco becomes KSFX, for San Francisco (now KOSF).
KQV-FM in Pittsburgh becomes WDVE, for a D o V E, the symbol of peace.
WXYZ-FM in Detroit becomes WRIF, for a guitar "R I F F" (legend goes that the calls were meant for WLS-FM to symbolize the cities' jazz scene).
WLS-FM in Chicago becomes WDAI (supposedly meant for WXYZ-FM to celebrate the Detroit Auto Industry; it had no meaning in Chicago).
KXYZ-FM in Houston becomes KAUM (today KHMX), meaning "Aumm", in Meditation terms; corresponding to Hippie meditative actions.
20 February: The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning; many radio stations just ignore it, while WOWO in Fort Wayne takes it seriously and interrupts programming for 20 minutes.
July 6 – Louis Armstrong, 69, African-American jazz musician, actor, singer, radio and TV personality[14]
July 11 – Carleton G. Young, 64, American radio and television actor
October 3 – Seán Ó Riada, 40, Irish composer, former music director at Radio Éireann and presenter of Our Musical Heritage[15]
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^Problems of Communism. Special Materials Section, United States Information Agency. 1972. p. 37.
^Dr. Hemant Kumar Pandey & Manish Raj Singh (1 August 2017). India's Major Military & Rescue Operations. Horizon Books (A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd). p. 125. ISBN 978-93-86369-39-0.
^John Mowitt (7 December 2011). Radio: Essays in Bad Reception. University of California Press. pp. 105–6. ISBN 978-0-520-95007-8.
^United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations (1971). Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: Hearing Before ... 92-1 on S. 18, and S. 1936, May 24, 1971. p. 24.
^John Eliot Groh (1986). Air Force Chaplains, 1971-1980. Office, Chief of Air Force Chaplains. p. 238.
^Destra Media. "Dannii Minogue". Trove/NLA. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
^Cox, Jim (2008). This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
^Donnelley, Paul (November 1, 2005). Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries. Omnibus Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-1-84449-430-9.
^Meckna, Michael; Satchmo, The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, Connecticut & London, 2004.
^Sean Williams; Lillis Ó Laoire (14 April 2011). Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man. OUP USA. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-19-532118-0.