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The year 1959 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• May 11 - At 10AM, KROW 960 AM in San Francisco switched call letters to KABL. The KABL name stayed with the station until September 2004.

[edit] Debuts

• German-American musicologist Karl Haas started Adventures in Good Music at WJR in Detroit, Michigan.

[edit] Closings

• January 2 - CBS ends Our Gal Sunday, This is Nora Drake, Backstage Wife, and Road of Life.

[edit] Births

• January 27 - Cris Collinsworth, former American football player and radio and television sportscaster.
• April 30 - Matt Casey, American radio personality.
• June 3 - John Carlson, American conservative talk radio host on KVI in Seattle.
• August 13 - Danny Bonaduce, American comedian, actor and radio and television personality.
• Joe Bevilacqua, award-winning voice actor, radio producer, dramatist, humorist, and documentary film producer.

[edit] Deaths

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