2003 in radio

The year 2003 in radio involved some significant events.

• October 10 – Facing an investigation surrounding allegations of illegal drug use, American right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh publicly admits that he is addicted to prescription pain killers, and will seek treatment.

• March 3 – Skratch 'N Sniff debuts on San Diego area alternative rock station XETRA-FM (91.1 FM, "91X").
• March 31 – "NBC News Radio," an hourly service of one-minute news updates anchored by NBC News and MSNBC personnel (but written by Westwood One staffers) is launched. Westwood One still maintains production of the unrelated five-minute long "NBC Radio News"-branded newscasts in morning drive (which had been produced and anchored by CBS Radio personnel since 1998) for one more year; they were one of a few remaining connections to the original NBC Radio Network.
• April – KJOC in Davenport, Iowa dumps its all-sports format and switches to talk, hoping to compete with the market's WOC. Some sports programming – mainly, the Chicago Cubs and Iowa State University athletics – are held over, and (except for a few brief interim periods with ISU sports) remain to this day.
• June 20 - KOCZ-LP in Opelousas, Louisiana, begins broadcasting as the third community radio "barnraising" initiative of the Prometheus Radio Project.
• October 12 – Billboard unveils the Hot Dance Airplay chart. "Just The Way You Are" by Milky is the first number one single on the published chart. Original panel: WKTU/New York City, KDLD/Los Angeles, KKDL/Dallas-Fort Worth, WQSX/Boston, WPYM/Miami, KCJZ/San Antonio, KPTI/San Francisco and KNRJ/Phoenix. All stations have since left the Dance format and panel.

• KMEO in Flower Mound, Texas beendete sein Memories- Format und begann sein Country-Format unter dem Namen KTYS .
• Art Bell zieht sich teilweise von Coast to Coast AM zurück , moderiert aber weiterhin die Wochenendsendung.

• 17. Januar - Richard Crenna , 77, US- amerikanischer Film- , Fernseh- und Radioschauspieler ^{[ 1 ]}
• 25. Januar – Robert Rockwell , 82, amerikanischer Bühnen-, Film-, Radio- und Fernsehschauspieler ^{[ 1 ]}
• 17. März – Alan Keith , 94, englischer Schauspieler und langjähriger Moderator klassischer Musik
• 4. Juli – Larry Burkett , 64, amerikanischer evangelikaler Autor und Radiomoderator
• 27. August - Jinx Falkenburg , 83, die (zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann Tex) das Talkshow-Format populär machte, zuerst im Radio und dann in den Anfängen des Fernsehens ^{[ 1 ].}
• 27. Oktober – Rod Roddy , 66, US-amerikanischer Top-40-Discjockey und Ansager, bekannt für seine Moderation von Fernseh-Spielshows

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