The year 1954 in radio involved some significant events.

Contents Events Debuts Closings Births Deaths

Events

• 1 February: KECA and KECA-FM, both in Los Angeles, change call letters to KABC and KABC-FM, reflecting their owners, ABC-United Paramount Theaters.
• 1 April: ABC-United Paramount Theaters, owners of WENR-Chicago, purchases time-share counterpart WLS-Chicago from Sears, Roebuck and Co., and merges both stations under the WLS calls (their FM sister station would keep the WENR calls until 1965).
• 17 November: WJW (AM) in Cleveland, Ohio (today WKNR) is sold by William M. O'Neill to Storer Broadcasting.

Debuts

• January 3: WSTN debuts as a 1 kW daytimer at St. Augustine, Florida.
• January 20 - The National Negro Network is formed.

Closings

• March 30 - Rocky Fortune, a half-hour detective drama starring Frank Sinatra, aired its final episode on NBC.
• September 25 - Escape ends its run on CBS.

Births

• January 12 - Howard Stern, shock jock radio personality
• August 22 - Kurt Andersen, American novelist, columnist and public radio host
• September 8 - Joe Cipriano, American voice over actor and radio personality
• November 20 - Steve Dahl, has been an American radio personality
• December 5 - Peter Arbogast, American sportscaster

Deaths

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