Several events are expected to occur in radio in 2008.
Events
- January 18: Music of Your Life changes hands from Jones Radio Networks to Concierge Technologies.
- January 21: XM Sports Nation begins airing both The Dan Patrick Show and The Tony Kornheiser Show. Kornheiser's show returns to air on the same date after a seven-month hiatus.
- January 28: Tony Bruno leaves Sporting News Radio.
- February: Mike McConnell's weekday show is pulled from syndication; it will continue as a local show, and his weekend show will remain syndicated.
- February 21: Air America Radio changes hands for the second time in less than a year; Pendulum Media purchases the network from Mark J. Green.
- March 1: Citadel Broadcasting announces a large loss of revenue and jettisons several staffers. Among the notable names dismissed were John R. Gambling of WABC, Chris Core of WMAL and Peter Tilden of KABC. Melanie Morgan of KSFO, while not laid off, did not have her contract renewed. Meanwhile, Curtis Sliwa is promoted to midmornings at WABC, and a massive rollout of Imus in the Morning and The True Oldies Channel commences.
- March 1: Rollye James discontinues syndication of her show and continues the show as a satellite-only program.
- April: Triton Media Group purchases Waitt Radio Networks and plans to consolidate its networks into its Dial Global brand.
- April 1: WRNO-FM in New Orleans, Louisiana switches format to "Rush Radio" and all-day replays of The Rush Limbaugh Show in a stunt that lasts six days. Limbaugh had previously been heard on crosstown rival WWL.
- April 3: Randi Rhodes is suspended from Air America Radio and quits the network a week later, joining Nova M Radio on April 14.
- April 11: Don Geronimo, of Don and Mike, retires from radio.
- April 14: Reports surface that Sean Hannity will part ways with ABC Radio at the end of his contract on June 12, immediately one year after Citadel Broadcasting took over the network.]
- April 14: WQNR is rebranded as 99.9 Kate FM with a variety hits format.
- April 22: Drew Lane leaves his morning radio show Drew and Mike.
- April 23: Steve Shannon leaves the nationally syndicated Steve and DC Morning Show to take a job at WERC in Birmingham. The show continues with D.C. Chymes as host, under the title of "D.C. and the Family."
- April 30: AOL and XM Satellite Radio ended their partnership.
- May 15: WYSP/Philadephia morning host Kidd Chris and PD John Cook are fired by CBS Radio after learning that a parody song that was performed live on Chris' show, "Schwoogies" by Lady Gash, contained racial slurs and content.
- June 10: AOL adds the streaming links from all of CBS Radio's 150 O&O stations to its online service.
- June 11: Smooth Jazz returns to Denver and Honolulu full time via KKHI (FM) and KORL-FM, respectively.
- June 20: Triton Media Group purchases Jones Radio Networks and plans to consolidate its networks into its Dial Global brand.
Debuts
Closings
Deaths
- February 7 - Eugene Brown, Philanthropist,DJ/account executive at WCKX/Columbus, Ohio (gunshot during an misunderstanding at a local bar)
- February 12 - Bill Currie, Radio and TV sportscaster (Sports anchor at KDKA-TV; voice of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball; nicknamed "Mouth of the South")
- February 13 - Jess Cain, morning host at WHDH-AM (at 850; now WEEI) /Boston from 1958 to 1991
- February 27 - Myron Cope, radio play by play commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- March 4 - Fred Horton, program director at multiple stations in New York State
- March 22 - Big Jack Armstrong, disc jockey at over 20 stations in California, Pittsburgh and at WWKB in Buffalo, among others
- March 26 - Wally Phillips, (b. 1925), American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years
- April 8 - Gib Shanley, radio play by play commentator for the Cleveland Browns
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