2001 in radio
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The year 2001 in radio involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- December 31 - Cox Communications flips the format and call letters of Classical radio station WTMI/Miami, Florida to Dance Music as WPYM ("Party 93.1, South Florida's Pure Dance Channel"). The news would make headlines in the trades and in the Dance Music community. The station would last three years and three months.
[edit] Debuts
- The 2 Live Stews debut on WQXI in Atlanta, Georgia
[edit] Closings
- Sports Fan Radio Network dismisses The Fabulous Sports Babe in January, network folds in May.
[edit] Deaths
- Perry Como, 88, American crooner and radio personality.
- Milton William Cooper, 58, American writer and shortwave broadcaster.
- Morton Downey, Jr., 68, controversial and influential American television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash talk show" format.
- Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, 39, American radio personality and actor
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