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.