The year 2007 in radio involved some significant events.
Events
January 8: Nanci "The Fabulous Sports Babe" Donnellan returns to radio after a six-year absence, filling in for local hosts in Florida. January 12: Entercom station KDND in Sacramento, California was sued after a participant in a "Hold Your Wee For a Wii" contest held by the station's morning show died of water intoxication. February 12: Two radio stations in Guinea, FM Liberté and Radio Familia, are attacked and besieged by members of the presidential guard. February 5: In Baghdad, Iraqi police find the murdered body of Abduirazak Hashim Ayal al-Khakani, a journalist employed by the news service of Jumhuriyat al-Iraq radio. February 12: Rádio Trânsito begins broadcasting from São Paulo, Brazil. March 2: WMMS-HD2 (100.7-2 FM), a digital subchannel of Cleveland rock station WMMS, launches with a "classic alternative" format. March 3: A number of format changes are announced at Cumulus Media-owned radio stations in the Quad Cities. WXLP (96.9 FM) begins using its former moniker, 97X, and is reborn as a classic hits-leaning towards classic rock format. The active rock format that had been at WXLP since 2004 (as "97 Rock") is moved to KBOB-FM (104.9 FM), which is rebranded "Rock 104.9." The 104.9 FM frequency's country music format, which had been there since 2000 and associated with the call letters KBOB since 1994, is abandoned, leaving Cumulus without a country music station in the Quad-Cities market. March 6: Air America Radio restructures, with politician Mark Green and his brother Stephen at the helm. Among the changes (see also "Closures"): Sam Seder discontinues his weekday show and moves to Sunday afternoons on Air America Radio. Lionel moves from WOR Radio Network to Air America Radio, joining the latter May 14. March 15: Lánchíd Rádió, a privately owned radio station in Hungary, begins broadcasting. March 22: CHUM Radio-O&O CKCE-FM/Calgary signs on as "Energy 101.5" with a Hot AC format. April 4: On Imus in the Morning: talk show host Don Imus refers on-air to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" and starts a national controversy about racism and free speech during comedy. April 12: The Imus in the Morning talk show is canceled by MSNBC, and host Don Imus is fired for remarks made about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. The controversy evolved into firing as a violation of the civil rights of free speech. June 12: Citadel Broadcasting's purchase of most ABC Radio assets closes, and restructuring takes place. June 22: WKBF (1270 AM) of Rock Island, Illinois, flips from Christian talk (as "Truth 1270") to "La Pantera," a Spanish and Mexican music format, following the frequency's sale from Quad Cities Media to La Jefa Latino Broadcasting. The station's new format allows WKBF to become the first full-time Spanish-language radio station in the Quad Cities and stabilizes the station's format, which had changed several times since 1995. June 29: Tom Kent resigns as host of his programs on the TKO Radio Network, the network he launched as a 24-hour network in the same year; he maintains ownership of the network and is replaced behind the microphone by John Landecker and Marty Thompson. July 1: Art Bell retires (again) from his weekend hosting gig at Coast to Coast AM. July 12: WCBS-FM 101.1 FM New York drops its Jack format after two years and returns to Oldies. July 16: Mike and the Mad Dog becomes "nationally syndicated" with its first affiliate outside New York State, WQYK in Tampa, Florida. According to host Mike Francesa, more affiliates are in the works. July 30: Pardon the Interruption returns to ESPN Radio. August 10: ABC Radio discontinues syndication of Larry Elder; his show continues on KABC in Los Angeles and reverts to a local show. All other affiliates are switched over to Mark Levin's show, also syndicated by ABC in the same time slot. August 16: Ocean FM, broadcasting in the Cayman Islands, loses its operating licence. August 17: Dan Patrick leaves his position at ESPN Radio. September 3: West German radio (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) programme Mozaik commemorates the 50th anniversary of Heinrich Böll's Irisches Tagebuch. September 4: Russia's government appoints a new prosecutor to take forward the trial of the murderers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya the previous year. October 1: Patrick returns on KLAC in Los Angeles and syndicated through the Content Factory. October 5: Long-time Pittsburgh CHR station "B94", returns to the air after flipping to rock (and later "male" talk) in 2004. October 8: WEXM (formerly WNOU) in Indianapolis, Indiana changes to Christmas music, the first station in the country to do so, as a "stunt format" for the next three months.