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The year 1985 in radio involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Debuts 3 Closings 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 1 - CKLW Windsor, Ontario adopts the Music of Your Life format.
• March 28 - A Roger Waters concert is broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall. It is the first time that holophonics is used for a live radio broadcast.
• The year brings other significant changes in Detroit radio, as WDRQ flips from urban contemporary to soft AC as WLTI, and WCLS flips from AC to rock-based Top 40 as WDTX.

[edit] Debuts

• WZLX (100.7 FM) in Boston debuts with the classic rock format.
• Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich debuts with Bit, byte, gebissen, the first radio program on computer topics in Germany.
• In July, after stunting with Christmas carols, WKJJ-FM "Magic 100" Louisville, Kentucky flips from Adult Contemporary to CHR as WDJX.

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