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|In a [[Local marketing agreement|time brokerage agreement]] with [[RM Broadcasting]], [[KCXL]]—[[Liberty, Missouri]]/[[Kansas City Metropolitan Area|Kansas City]] began airing [[Radio Sputnik]] six hours a day, which will run until December 31, 2022. The arrangement is already being criticized by local media for allowing a Russian-associated entity to broadcast programs that is considered propaganda to a Midwestern market.

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|[[iHeartMedia]] announces a major corporate restructuring, resulting in a round of mass layoffs nationwide, mainly in small and mid-sized markets, affecting hundreds of positions.

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|[[World Radio Day]]: A team from [[William Paterson University]] broadcasts a three-hour show from the former home of [[Guglielmo Marconi]] in [[Bologna]], Italy.

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|The [[Oakland Athletics]] abandon radio for a team exclusive channel on [[TuneIn]], exiting their deal with [[KTRB]] to broadcast the team's games after one season and complaints from fans over poor promotion and flow from the station's [[conservative talk radio]] format. Athletics games in the Bay Area market will be heard exclusively on TuneIn instead of radio, a first in [[Major League Baseball]] and the team will go without a flagship station. On July 30, less than a week into the pandemic-shortened [[2020 Oakland Athletics season|2020 season]], the Athletics voided its agreement with TuneIn and signed with [[iHeartMedia]], who will air games on [[KNEW (AM)|KNEW]]—[[Oakland, California|Oakland]].

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|Talk [[KTBL]]—[[Albuquerque]] switches to active rock as "The Pit", relayed over translator K233CG ({{Frequency|94.5|FM}}), which previously relayed [[KKOB (AM)|KKOB]].

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!March 25

|<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mukherjee|first=Senjuti|date=1 January 2021|title=Echoes of Resistance: How Radio Quarantine builds solidarity in difficult times|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/media/radio-quarantine-solidarity-difficult-times|access-date=2021-01-04|website=[[The Caravan]]|language=en}}</ref>

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!June 13

|[[American Public Media]] abruptly cancels ''[[Live from Here]]'', unceremoniously ending a 46-year streak for old-time radio revival programming on the network (including the show and its predecessors ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' and ''The American Radio Company of the Air''). The cancellation is among several cuts at APM and parent organization [[Minnesota Public Radio]], which faced a "rapid loss of revenue" and diverted its remaining resources to news programming such as ''[[Marketplace (radio program)|Marketplace]]''.

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!June 27

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|Serbian singer, former Eurovision contestant

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!February 5

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|American actor (radio appearances on ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]'', ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' and ''[[Screen Directors Playhouse]]'')

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!February 7

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|American actor and radio host (was with [[CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks|Cable Radio Network]] from 2008 to 2019)

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!February 14

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|American country singer and radio host (aired a daily show on [[KXBL]] from 1997 until his death, member of the ''[[Grand Ole Opry]]'')

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|[[Manuel Adolfo Varas]]

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|Irish-born media entrepreneur ([[Radio Caroline]])

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|Mike Elliott

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|American baseball player and country musician, first black singer to become a member of the ''Grand Ole Opry''

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