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The year '''1995''' saw a number of significant events in '''radio broadcasting'''.

==Events==
* January 1 – [[KAEV]] in [[Lake Arrowhead, California]] changes to [[KHTI|KCXX]] with an [[alternative rock]] format.
* January 28 - The final original [[American Top 40]] airs internationally only. The final Long Distance Dedication is "Move On" by James Brown, from host [[Shadoe Stevens]] to the show's listeners.
* February 15 – After nine years as a "Pure Rock" station, [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]'s 105.5 [[KNAC]] flips to a [[Music of Mexico|Mexican music]] format as [[KBUE]] (Que Buena). KNAC was, however, resurrected in 1998 as the internet-based radio station knac.com.
* March – After several years of playing contemporary Christian music, [[KJOC (FM)|KQCS]] (93.5 FM) in [[Bettendorf, Iowa]] switches to an [[active rock]] format and adopts the call letters KORB.
* March – After 22 years as [[KCQQ|KRVR]] (106.5 FM), under a format that had evolved from [[beautiful music]] to a hybrid of beautiful, [[easy listening]] and [[adult contemporary]] and had been known to locals as "K-River," the call letters and format are changed for this [[Davenport, Iowa]] station. The new call sign is KCQQ and – known as Q106 and Q106.5 – the format is switched to [[classic hits]], eventually evolving to [[classic rock]].
* March 4- Partners For Christian Media signs Contemporary Christian station J103 on the air in Chattanooga TN.
* March 28 – [[KZJK|KJJO]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] flips to [[smooth jazz]] as KMJZ.
* May 12-  [[Mora, Minnesota]] gets its first radio outlet, as new FM station [[KBEK]] signs on with 25&nbsp;kW of power on 95.5&nbsp;MHz.
* June: [[WEAN-FM|WUAE]]/Providence signs on for the first time.
* July - Evergreen Media acquires Pyramid Broadcasting's 12 station group for $306.5 million; the sale closes the following January.
* August - Chancellor Broadcasting announces it will acquire [[Shamrock Broadcasting]]'s 19 station group for $365 million.
* September 27 – The [[BBC]] in the United Kingdom and [[Sveriges Radio]] in Sweden both begin [[Digital Audio Broadcasting]].
* September 30 – "SoundWave" (now known as [[96.4FM The Wave]]) – sister network to [[Wales]]'s first local commercial radio station [[Swansea Sound]] – goes on air.

==Debuts==
* July – Cigar Dave hosts the first broadcast of ''Smoke This!''
* August - ''[[DWRW|95.1 RW]]'' begins broadcast in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines.

==Closings==
* January 28 – Final broadcast of the original ''[[American Top 40]]''.
* October 6 — [[Ken Beatrice]]'s last show on [[WSBN|WMAL]] in Washington, DC.
* December 1 – Final broadcast of ''[[Chippie]]'', a German program on computer topics, produced by the [[Hessischer Rundfunk]] (Hessian Broadcasting).

==Deaths==
* [[Tom Clay]], 66, American radio personality and disc jockey.
* [[Bob Cruz]], 42, American Disc Jockey hired to replace Jay Reynolds at [[WABC (AM)]] in 1976.
* [[Gary Dee]], 60, pioneer in controversial talk radio, mostly in [[Cleveland, Ohio]].
* [[Gerald Durrell]], 70, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and radio and television presenter
*[[Simon Gellar]], 75, owner of WVCA: Gloucester, Ma. (now [[WNKC]]) on July 11.
* [[J. P. McCarthy]], 62, American radio personality
* [[Vivian Stanshall]], 51, English comedian, writer, artist, broadcaster, and musician (born 1943)
* 1 June, [[Dallas Townsend]], 76, an American [[broadcast journalist]] who worked for [[CBS Radio Network|CBS Radio]] and television for over 40 years.<ref name="coxotd">Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3848-8}}.</ref>
* 2 February, [[Willard Waterman]], 80, a [[character actor]] in films, TV and on radio, remembered best for succeeding [[Harold Peary]] as the title character of ''[[The Great Gildersleeve]]'' at the height of that show's popularity.<ref name=coxotd/> 
* [[Wolfman Jack]], 57, American disc jockey

==See also==
*[[Radio broadcasting]]

==References==
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