1955 in radio

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The year 1955 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

Events

2 May – Opening at Wrotham, Kent, of the United Kingdom's first VHF/FM transmitters.
22 September – The character Grace Archer dies in the BBC radio serial The Archers; a spoiler for the launch of ITV on the same day.^[1]
20 October – WERE (AM)-Cleveland disk jockey Bill Randle is the key presenter of a concert at Brooklyn High School in Brooklyn, Ohio, featuring Pat Boone and Bill Haley & His Comets. Elvis Presley is the opening act; it is not only his first performance north of the Mason-Dixon line, but was also Elvis' first filmed performance, for a documentary on Randle titled The Pied Piper of Cleveland.
17 November – Creation of the Communauté des radios publiques de langue française (CRPLF) - an association of the French-language public broadcasters of France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Canada, later to become, in 2002, les Radios francophones publiques (RFP).
26 November – In Sweden, the national public broadcaster Radiotjänst (now Sveriges Radio) begins transmission, via FM, of its second radio channel in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, and Örebro.

March 10 – The Silver Eagle broadcasts its last episode.
March 23 – The Big Story ends its run on NBC.
May 22 – The Jack Benny Program airs its last radio episode and moves solely to television.
June 7 – Lux Radio Theater ends its run on CBS.

February 10 – Jim Cramer, American television personality, former hedge fund manager and best-selling author.
February 23 – Tom Bodett, American author, voice actor, radio host and current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6.
October 4 – Dale Connelly, co-host (with Tom Keith, a.k.a. Jim Ed Poole) of The Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio.