The year 2002 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
- KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada fires Doug Basham, despite receiving the highest ratings of any other host on the station including nationally syndicated ones, allegedly for spending "too much time bashing the president."
Debuts
Closings
Deaths
- Joe Allison, 77, - Songwriter, radio and television personality, record producer, and country music business executive
- Jack Buck, 77, American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.
- Wayne Cody, 65, radio and television sportscaster who spent the bulk of his career in Seattle, Washington at KIRO.
- Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960
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