Deaths
- February 7 - Eugene "Rock" Brown, Philanthropist, DJ and Account Executive at WCKX/Columbus, Ohio (gunshot during a misunderstanding at a local bar innocent bystander)
- February 12 - Bill Currie, Radio and TV sportscaster (Sports anchor at KDKA-TV; voice of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball; nicknamed "Mouth of the South")
- February 13 - Jess Cain, morning host at WHDH-AM (at 850; now WEEI) /Boston from 1958 to 1991
- February 27 - Myron Cope, radio play by play commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- March 4 - Fred Horton, program director at multiple stations in New York State
- March 22 - Big Jack Armstrong, disc jockey at over 20 stations in California, Pittsburgh and at WWKB in Buffalo, among others
- March 26 - Wally Phillips, (born 1925), American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years
- April 8 - Gib Shanley, radio play by play commentator for the Cleveland Browns
- May 3 - Lynne Cooper Aurandt, better known as "Angel Harvey," radio producer and writer, wife of radio personality Paul Harvey.
- June 13 - Tim Russert, host of the radio/TV show Meet the Press.
- July 12 - Tony Snow, former talk show host on Fox News Talk and White House Press Secretary
- July 28 - Khia Edgerton, better known as K-swift, DJ/mix-show personality at WERQ/Baltimore, Maryland
- August 8 - Ragan Henry, African-American radio station group owner
- August 9 - Isaac Hayes, recording artist, TV/Film actor, voice actor, Radio DJ
- September 12 - George Putnam, 94, at the time of his death the oldest nationally syndicated talk radio host in the United States. Putnam was hosting Talk Back on CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks and KCAA.
- September 23 - Ron Allen, 71, long running disc jockey and sports commentator for WARM in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- September 24 - Dick Lynch, radio color commentator for the New York Giants
- September 28 - John Harden Norris, 88, owner of WGCB-TV. Norris was the center of a dispute over the Fairness Doctrine, one that he eventually lost, in 1964. (see: Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission)
- October 27 - Dean Barnett, 41, conservative commentator, blogger, occasional fill-in host for Hugh Hewitt.
- November 29 - Bill Drake, 71, Radio programmer, executive, DJ, and co-creator of the "Boss Radio" Top 40 format with partner Gene Chanault.
- December 2 - Edward Samuel Rogers, 75, owner of the Canadian Rogers Communications radio, television and cable empire.
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“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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