1929 in radio

Events

• 8 January – CBS purchases New York City radio station WABC from the Atlantic Broadcasting Company.
• 10 January – WTFF in Mt. Vernon, Virginia changes its call letters to WJSV. While the call letters were claimed to stand for "Jesus Saves Virginia," it actually stood for James S. Vance, a Grand Wizard in Virginia and publisher of the station's owner, "The Fellowship Forum". Vance arranges an affiliation deal with CBS Radio, which also involved operations and programming for WJSV.

  Debuts

• - The Chase and Sanborn Hour debuts on NBC.
• 14 January – Empire Builders debuts on NBC-Blue.
• 17 January – Aunt Jemima debuts on CBS.
• January – George Gershwin's An American in Paris
• 15 July – Music & the Spoken Word on KSL and the CBS radio network, the longest-running continuous network radio program in the US.
• 19 August – Amos 'n Andy debuts on the NBC Blue radio network.
• 1 October – Blackstone Plantation debuts on CBS.
• 24 October – Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, starring Rudy Vallee, debuts on NBC.
• 6 November – Week in Westminster debuts on the BBC Home Service; it will still be running more than 90 years later.
• 20 November – The Rise of the Goldbergs, starring Gertrude Berg, debuts on NBC.

  Births

• 23 January – Myron Cope, American sports journalist, radio personality and sports broadcaster best known for being the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 14 March – Bob Grant, American conservative talk radio host.
• 27 April – Derek Chinnery, British radio controller.
• 20 August – Tom Clay, American radio personality and disc jockey.
• 25 September – Ronnie Barker, English comic actor.
• 25 November – Tim Gudgin, English sports results announcer.
• 29 November – Derek Jameson, English newspaper editor and broadcaster.
• 30 November – Dick Clark, American television and radio personality, game show host and businessman, chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions.
• 5 December – Richard Beebe, American radio personality and comedian.
• 28 December – Brian Redhead, English radio news presenter.