The year 1965 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.
Events
*19 April:
WINS (AM)
WINS (1010 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to New York, New York, owned by Audacy, Inc. It features an all-news format known as 1010 WINS, with the call sign phonetically pronounced as "wins". WINS's studios are located ...
in
New York switches from Top 40 to all-news, with the slogan "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
*19 June: After a multi-year courtroom battle which involved
accusations of extortion, the FCC reversed a 1956 station ownership trade between
Westinghouse Broadcasting
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndicat ...
and
NBC
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. Westinghouse reclaimed their
original Philadelphia stations, while NBC was ordered to take over
their former owned-and-operated stations in
Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
. The KYW call letters originally went from
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
to Cleveland in 1956, and back to Philadelphia with the reversal, with NBC renaming the Cleveland stations
WKYC AM/
FM/
TV.
*18 August:
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; ...
appears in "The Child" for
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Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...
) begins broadcasting.
*12 December: New owner Westchester Broadcasting changes the call letters of WDOK (AM) in
). Their FM sister station retains the
format.
format.
).
.