2024 in radio


The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2024. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, station launches, closures, and format changes, as well as information about controversies and deaths of radio personalities.

Notable events

August

December

DateEventSource
2Zone Corp, a broadcaster serving the Bangor, Maine region, announces the pending shutdown of all of its radio stations after the withdrawal of its major financial backer, horror novelist Stephen King. The company had never been profitable and had largely been subsidized by King's other ventures, something he stated he was no longer willing to do as he approached old age and needed to stabilize his own financial situation. WKIT, in part due to its stronger ratings and market position, would later be spared from closure when a local business partnership operating under the name Rock Lobster Radio agreed to purchase the station from King.
3Sage Alerting Systems announces it will no longer manufacture the 3644 ENDEC, one of only three Emergency Alert System encoders available in the United States and the only such encoder built primarily for radio. Sage cited the existing encoders' durability and long usage life, increasing difficulty in acquiring replacement parts, and a "bursty" sales market that peaked mainly during low-power broadcast license expansion windows. The Federal Communications Commission requires every AM and FM radio station licensed in the United States to have an EAS encoder.
31Salem Media Group announces the divestiture of The Fish, its contemporary Christian music radio network, and all of the owned-and-operated stations in said network to rival Christian broadcaster Educational Media Foundation, which will dissolve the network into its own brands, K-Love and Air1, upon closure of the sale in 2025.

Deaths