The following events occurred in radio in 2010.
Events Date Unknown: CHOI/Quebec City flips from Alternative Rock to News/Talk. January 4: KJCS/Lufkin, Texas, goes silent. January 5: Melanie Morgan quits her job as host of the nationally syndicated newsmagazine America's Morning News. The show will continue with the remainder of the show's staff. January 6: KTTB/Minneapolis-St. Paul drops Rhythmic contemporary for Top 40 and adopts the "Now" moniker. January 7: John Lynch's Broadcast Company of the Americas acquires the programming operations of Rhythmic XHITZ, Alternative XETRA-FM and Rhythmic AC XHRM/Tijuana-San Diego from Finest City Broadcasting in a foreclosure sale after Finest City was forced to sell its assets to pay off a massive debt. January 8: WDUQ/Pittsburgh is put on the selling block by Duquesne University. January 21: Air America Radio files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceases operations effective immediately; WNYZ-LP/New York City ends its simulcast of WPTY/Long Island due to its planned conversion to ASTC digital. January 28: Radio Disney takes six outlets silent as parent company Walt Disney prepares to sell the stations off to different owners. January 29: The FCC Media Bureau adopts news rules that will allow FM stations to increase their digital IBOC signals' power up to 10% of their analog power. February 1: CBS Radio places KFWB/Los Angeles in a trust. February 1: Doug Stephan joins United Stations Radio Networks. February 11: KYZZ/Monterey drops Rhythmic for Oldies February 12: CBS Radio announces that it will no longer have its radio station webcasts stream outside the United States due to royalty issues. This also include their news, sports and talk outlets as well February 14: Classic Hits WRAK/Albany, Georgia, is the latest Clear Channel O&O to jump on the "Gen X" 1980s-1990s hits format. February 15: KSTP-AM/Minneapolis-St. Paul drops Talk for ESPN Radio February 15: WBZW/Pittsburgh drops Top 40 for the second time in its history for Sports Talk as "93.7 The Fan." Sister station WZPT, currently an Adult Top 40 station, will merge its playlist and airstaff with the former WBZW. February 15: WRCE/Watkins Glen, New York, returns to the air at low power after its tower was destroyed in December. February 15: WCDV/Baton Rouge drops AC for the "Gen X" format, the first non-Clear Channel O&O to do so. February 15: J. D. Hayworth, a talk show host on KFYI/Phoenix, Arizona, announces his entry into the United States Senate election in Arizona, 2010, against incumbent John McCain. February 15: Citadel Media shuts down its "Timeless" satellite feed 2 days later than scheduled due to a decline in affiliates and advertisers. February 22: KSTN-FM/Stockton, California, drops its regional Mexican format, after having carried it for at least some of its broadcast day since 1963, and switches to the K-LOVE network. February 22: WWMM/Birmingham drops Triple-A for Talk, as it picks up the latter's format from sister station WAPI February 26: A pair of surprise format flips takes place, with WYCL/Pensacola, Florida, dropping AC for Rhythmic Hot AC and adopts "The Groove" moniker, while WZMR/Albany, New York, drops Active Rock for Country March 3: KSSJ/Sacramento drops Smooth AC for Alternative as "Radio 94.7." March 5: The culmination of a massive shuffling of radio formats takes place in Central New York: WLTI/Syracuse, a Citadel station, drops AC for mixed talk on March 3, competing with WFBL and WSYR, adopting the call sign WXTL three weeks later. Delilah is picked up by former rival WYYY (WYYY and the rights to Delilah's show are both owned by Clear Channel), displacing John Tesh from the market. WFBL responds by dropping its lone local host, Jon Alvarez. The Central New York-based The Game (WIXT/WRNY/WTLB) radio network affiliates with ESPN Radio and expand into the Syracuse and Oswego markets via WTLA and WSGO, along with two AM-to-FM translators. WNSS/Syracuse, WLTI's sister station and the former ESPN affiliate for Syracuse, changes its call sign to WSKO and adopts the branding "The Score" in late February. On March 5, the station picks up Citadel's Imus in the Morning (at the time on WHEN) and affiliates with Sporting News Radio. WHEN, already running Fox Sports Radio for dayparts other than Imus, replaces Imus with Fox Sports Radio's morning show. WNRS/Herkimer (which had held the ESPN affiliation for the Mohawk Valley, including Utica and Rome) switched to a mix of Fox Sports Radio, Imus, and Bloomberg Radio. March 5: The studios of Urban contemporary outlet KJMZ/Lawton, Oklahoma, became a crime scene as the station's computers, monitors, television sets, webcams and two transmitter tubes (which were used to get the station back to full power following a series of severe winter storms in the area which crippled the station's tower) were stolen from the property in the early morning hours. March 7: Retiring Congressman Eric Massa, just days after announcing his resignation, takes to the airwaves on WKPQ to accuse national Democrats of forcing him out of office. March 8: WXKS/Boston will dump its Regional Mexican format and replace it with all-talk "Rush Radio;" it swaps callsigns with sister station WKOX a week prior. The station began stunting the week prior with a sound collage of clips from the shows it was going to air and Ronald Reagan speeches. March 8: Another Albany, Georgia station makes a format switch, as WKZZ returns to the airwaves as an Adult Top 40 after stunting for 72 hours with "The Wheel of Formats." March 11: "Psycho Mike" Catherwood is named the permanent co-host of Loveline. March 12: KPMZ/Dallas-Ft. Worth dumps its oldies format and begins stunting with "Reagan Radio" in preparation for a format change to news/talk as a simulcast of WBAP on March 15. March 12: Oldies KCAR-FM/Joplin, Missouri, flips to an all-comedy radio format. Though AM stations have used the format in the past, this is first time ever that a full-time Comedy format has appeared on the FM band in the United States. Incidentally, Ronald Reagan clips will also be part of this format. March 16: National Geographic Radio moves from Salem Radio Network to United Stations Radio Networks. March 17 Kansas City picks up a new Active Rock outlet, as Cumulus Media launches "103.7 The Dam." The signal, which is actually a Class-A translator, is also the HD2 subchannel of Classic Rock sibling KCFX. March 19: WAOB/Pittsburgh returns to the air with a new "Catholic Radio" format. March 19: WIHB/Charleston, South Carolina, drops Top 40/CHR for Urban as "92.5 The Box." March 26: XM/Sirius station MLB Home Plate was rebranded to MLB Network Radio, and will simulcast some of TV channel MLB Network's shows such as MLB Tonight.MLB Rebrands XM Radio Channel to MLB Network Radio - Extending television brand, programs to satellite radio service Broadcasting & Cable March 26, 2010 March 26: Just 10 months after dropping Smooth Jazz for Country, WDSJ/Dayton, Ohio, flips formats again, this time to Classic Hits March 29: Big Boy's Neighborhood, having ended its run on Citadel Media on March 26, moves to Dial Global. March 31: WWPW/Louisville ends its simulcast of WAY-FM Network affiliate WRVI to go Urban as "104.3 The Beat"; Hot AC WKIM/Memphis takes the "Gen X" format April 1: After 9 months of FM Talk, KPWT/San Antonio silences the format in anticipation of a flip to adult album alternative on April 5. (See also April 15 below) April 2: Clear Channel takes a pair of outlets and flips them to Top 40/CHR; Rhythmic WLWD/Lima, Ohio and Country WIBL/Augusta, Georgia April 15: Coinciding with tax day, KRPT/San Antonio, Texas, drops its all-Texas country format for syndicated talk as "92.5 The Patriot." The lineup is almost identical to KPWT's former lineup, with all programming from Cox Radio and Talk Radio Network (see April 1 above). April 20: After 14 years as a Triple-A outlet, KENZ/Salt Lake City become the latest Citadel O&O to flip to the "Gen X" format April 22: Longtime Hot AC WMXB/Richmond flips to a hybrid Alternative/Hot AC direction as "103.7 The River." April 27: Just seven days after KENZ/Salt Lake City flipped to the "Gen X" format, Classic Rock KYLZ adopts a Triple-A leaning Modern AC format to pick up some of KENZ's displaced listeners April 29: Another Richmond, Virginia outlet switches formats as Alternative WDYL flips to Rhythmic Top 40 as "Hot 100.9." WDYL is also the sister station of WMXB, who in turn dropped Hot AC for Alternative a week earlier"Alternative Y101 Now Top 40/Rhythmic Hot 100.9/Richmond" from All Access (April 29, 2010) April 30: KKHI/Denver moved its Smooth Jazz format to the internet. With this move, KKHI becomes the fourth station in Denver to drop the Smooth Jazz format. April 30: Corus Entertainment sells all of its stations in Quebec, including four in Montreal, one in Quebec City, and one outside Ottawa, to Cogeco. May 3: Regent Communications changes its name to Townsquare Media May 3: The home of the Grand Ole Opry is flooded due to the Cumberland River in Nashville overflowing its banks, resulting in the Opry moving most of its performances back to the Ryman Auditorium (the Opry's winter home and its regular home from 1943 to 1974) and the rest to the War Memorial Auditorium (an even earlier Opry venue, used from 1936 to 1943). May 4: KSYU/Albuquerque, New Mexico, drops Rhythmic AC for adult contemporary. May 11: In the Chico, California, market, KZAP "The Pig" has flipped from the Adult album alternative format to News/Talk. The almost-all syndicated "Bold Talk" lineup will include Glenn Beck from 7 to 10 am, followed by Laura Ingraham from 10 to 12noon. There will be local programming from 12 to 1 pm including news, and then the syndicated Jerry Doyle airs from 1 to 3 pm, with Mark Levin from 3 to 6 pm, followed by Jason Lewis and Phil Hendrie. May 11: Lexington, Kentucky's Clear Channel-owned WMKJ (105.5) keeps the 1970s & 1980s music, but rebrands as "Rewind 105.5." The station drops the former branding "Magic 105.5". May 14: After 8 years as an Urban, WMIB/Miami, Florida, flipped to Spanish Adult Contemporary format at noon. The news was announced via airstaffers through their Twitter pages. May 17: Salem Communications flips WWRC from business talk to conservative talk. Salem News/Talk VP Tom Tradup says "we are thrilled to extend SRN's 'footprint' in our nation's capital." In addition to WWRC, Salem also owns Christian teaching WAVA-FM (105.1) in the Washington market. May 18: KZBD/Spokane, Washington, drops Alternative for Top 40/CHR and adopts the "Now" moniker. This is the first time since KZZU flipped to Adult Top 40 in 2005 that Spokane had a Mainstream Top 40 outlet"KZBD Flips From Alternative To Top 40" from All Access (May 18, 2010) May 26: 6 New Northwest Broadcasters stations could possibly be sold in the near future. KBBO, KJOX, KHHK, KARY, KXDD, KRSE have been placed under receivership in attempt to prevent station bankruptcy. Principal of Revitalization Partners, Alan Davis says "The stations are on the air; it's business as usual. I can only tell you there appears to be demand for the stations." May 27: The Milwaukee radio dial became the latest radio market to see a surprise shakeup in two days: At noon on 27th, WJZX flipped from Broadcast Architecture's syndicated satellite feed Smooth AC "Smooth Jazz Network," to stunting as "Tiger Radio, Music For Cheaters & The Ones They Have Cheated On" playing cheating songs."Hold That Tiger.... Smooth Jazz WJZX Stunting" from All Access (May 27, 2010) The station is expected to flip to Rhythmic Top 40 after stunting and will retain its airstaff. The new station changed their call letters to WNQW standing for "Now."