2025 in radio
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The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2025. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, station launches, closures, and format changes, as well as information about controversies and deaths of radio personalities.
Notable events
January
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Finnish DJ Yotto broadcasts his first hour-long show, "Yotto's Odd World", on Europe's One World Radio. | [1] |
| 10 | Mexican radio station XEQI-AM surrenders its licence to broadcast. | [2] |
| 30 | Spanish variety radio station WYKO, based in Puerto Rico, canceled its licence to broadcast. | [3] |
February
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | Westwood One signs a rights deal with the United States Soccer Federation to be the official radio network of the men's national team and women's national team. | [4] |
March
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In retaliation for escalating tensions between U.S. president Donald Trump and Canada, Canadian broadcaster Corus Entertainment stations of all formats devote all of their playlists for the day to Canadian content. | [5] |
| 3 | Cumulus Media begins the process of closing down underperforming terrestrial radio stations, consisting mainly of FM rimshot signals and AM stations without translators. | [6] |
| 13 | WIRY Plattsburgh, New York closes after 75 years of operation, blaming its own inability to hire salespeople, music royalty increases and changes in music listening patterns that diverted listeners away from local, independently owned full-service stations such as WIRY. | [7] |
| 14 | U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reduce the functions of several agencies including the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which owns the international broadcaster Voice of America (VOA), to the minimum required by law. The next day, all employees could not access VOA headquarters, and many VOA foreign language broadcasts replaced news and other regularly scheduled programming with music. Several international broadcasters which uses the shortwave radio transmitter facilities of VOA are also affected. | [8][9][10] |
Future events
November
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | The Grand Ole Opry is scheduled to reach 100 years on air, the first American radio program to reach that milestone. | [11] |
Unknown Dates
| Event | Source |
|---|---|
| 99.5 Play FM, owned by Real Radio Network was set to Cease operations and it was rebranded as XFM Mega Manila under Y2H Broadcasting Network. | [12] |
Deaths
- January 2 – Bernie Constantin, Swiss songwriter and radio show host, 77[13]
- January 3 – Willem van Kooten, Dutch businessman and DJ (Joost den Draaijer), 83[14]
- January 12 – Arnold Frolows, Australian music director and radio personality, 74 (liver cancer)[15]
- January 13 – Buck White, American mandolinist and Grand Ole Opry member, 94[16]
- January 16 – Bob Uecker, American baseball announcer (Milwaukee Brewers Radio Network from 1971 to 2024), 90[17]
- January 22 – Pete Medhurst, American football announcer (Navy Midshipmen football), 55[18]
- January 29 – Max Schautzer, Austrian-born German television and radio presenter, 84[19]
- January 30 – Leif "Loket" Olsson, Swedish television and radio host and singer, 82[20]
- February 2 – John Crosse, British radio and TV announcer, 83[21]
- February 11 – Philip Brady, Australian radio broadcaster (3AK, 3AW), 85[22]
- February 16 – Reymund Tinaza, Philippine radio broadcaster and correspondent (Abante Radyo, Bombo Radyo Philippines), 42[23]
- February 24 – Al Trautwig, American sportscaster (New York Apollo radio broadcasts), 68[24]
- March 11 – Bob Rivers, American radio host and parody musician, 68[25]
- March 13 – John Feinstein, American sportswriter (NPR, CBS Sports Radio), 69[26]
- March 20 – Bob Davis, American sportscaster (Kansas Jayhawks), 80[27]
- March 22:
- Bill Mercer, American sportscaster (Dallas Cowboys, CBS Radio, Mutual Broadcasting, among many others), 99[28]
- Andy Peebles, British radio DJ and presenter (BBC Radio 1), 76[29]
- March 30 – Jim Quinn, American shock jock and conservative talk radio host, 82[30]
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