2011 in radio
The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2011. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, and station launches, closures and format changes, as well as information about controversies.
Events
January
February
March
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July
August
September
October
November
December
Debuts
Endings
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source | - |
| January | Doug Hoerth | 66 | Talk radio host at WTAE, KDKA, WWSW and WPTT in Pittsburgh; died "several days" prior to January 25 | - | |
| January 11 | David Nelson | 74 | American television/radio actor and producer | - | |
| January 15 | Royal Marshall | 43 | Producer and sidekick for nationally syndicated host Neal Boortz | - | |
| January 20 | Liz Dribben | 73 | Radio and television host in Buffalo and New York City | - | |
| February 10 | Jon Petrovich | 63 | Former executive with the Associated Press broadcast unit and with CNN | - | |
| February 11 | Ludlow Porch | 76 | American radio humorist | - | |
| February 25 | Eneas Perdomo | 80 | Venezuelan popular singer who began his career in radio | - | |
| March 11 | Danny Stiles | 87 | American radio host; was on four stations at the time of his death | - | |
| March 12 | Derry Brownfield | 79 | Agriculture-oriented radio host and businessman | - | |
| March 17 | Terry Preston | 85 | 1940s and 1950s era DJ in Bakersfield, California and in Missouri; better known as a country singer under his birth name, Ferlin Husky | - | |
| March 21 | Kjeld Tolstrup | 45 | Danish radio disc jockey | - | |
| March 26 | Corey McGriff | 32 | Radio DJ/remixer and former airstaffer at WQHT/New York City who went by the alias "DJ Megatron" | - | |
| March 31 | Tom Whalen | 88 | Longtime broadcaster at WBEN | - | |
| April 7 | Coyote McCloud | 68 | Nashville radio host | - | |
| April 21 | Tine Bryld | 71 | Danish social worker, writer, radio host and letters editor | - | |
| April 21 | Dave Michaels | 60 | Midday host/program director on Classic Hits Radio | - | |
| April 27 | Joseph Mazza | 68 | Nationally syndicated overnight radio host | - | |
| April 27 | Jim Mandich | 62 | Miami Dolphins player, sportscaster | - | |
| April 27 | Harry Thuillier | 85 | Irish Olympic fencer and radio presenter | - | |
| May 1 | Osama bin Laden | 54 | Saudi-born leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks, including the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City, which resulted in several radio and television broadcasting antennas being destroyed along with the buildings in the attacks; killed by Navy SEALs; Bin Laden's death was an immediate topic on most radio shows in the United States | - | |
| May 8 | Charles McPhee | 49 | Syndicated radio host "Dream Doctor" who was known to help people understand their dreams | - | |
| May 20 | John Cigna | 74 | Former KDKA on-air host for 30 years | - | |
| May 26 | Tom Land | 51 | VP of Programming for Journal Communications | - | - |
| May 30 | Tillmann Uhrmacher | 44 | German DJ, music producer and radio host | - | |
| June 1 | Jaehoon Ahn | 70 | North Korean-born American journalist and researcher, founding director of Radio Free Asia Korean language service | ||
| June 2 | Willem Duys | 82 | Dutch radio and television presenter and record producer | - | |
| June 2 | Keith Smith | 93 | Australian radio and television personality | - | |
| June 3 | Papa Joe Chevalier | 62 | Las Vegas-based sports talk radio host | - | |
| June 13 | Romeo Olea | 49 | Filipino radio journalist | - | |
| July 31 | Rick Buckley | unknown | Owner of Buckley Broadcasting | - | |
| August 1 | Jevon "Hollywood" Hotchkiss | 34 | On-air personality at WDTW/Detroit | - | |
| August 6 | Fred Imus | 69 | Host of the Trailer Park Bash on Sirius XM Radio, brother of Don Imus and frequent guest on Imus in the Morning | - | |
| September 22 | Chuck Collier | 64 | Radio personality best known for years in Cleveland, Ohio on WGAR from 1970 to 1990 and WGAR-FM from 1986 to 2011; originally an adult contemporary host on a lineup that had Don Imus, "Emperor Joe" Mayer, Bob Vernon and Norm N. Nite, he stayed with WGAR after a 1984 format switch to country music; inducted into the Country Music Radio Hall of Fame in 2009; voice-tracked middays at sister classic hits WMJI; worked for WCBS-FM in New York in the late 1970s | - | |
| October 18 | Norman Corwin | 101 | American radio writer-producer | - | |
| October 30 | Tom Keith | 64 | Public radio sound effects man for A Prairie Home Companion | - | |
| November 4 | Andy Rooney | 92 | Radio and television writer, commentator and humorist | - | |
| December 11 | Phillip Cottrell | 43 | British born New Zealand journalist | ||
| December 17 | Cesária Évora | 70 | Cape Verdean singer-songwriter, career launched on radio | ||
| December 24 | Lynn Samuels | 69 | Pioneering liberal talk radio host; originally at WABC, then later with Sirius XM Radio | - |