The year 1978 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.
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- Likely fall – WEMO (101.3 FM) of East Moline, Illinois switches its adult contemporary/MOR format to country music, and changes its call letters to WZZC. The new station, an ancestor to WLLR, stabilizes an FM country music format, which – except for a brief run in 1977-1978 on WHTT-FM (96.9 FM) – had been absent from the Quad Cities market for more than five years.
- Bill Ballance leaves KGBS for KFMB in San Diego, where he is to remain for fifteen years.
- 29 January – Adventure Theater (a children's program, not to be confused with Adventure Theater, a 1956 anthology series on NBC) ends its run on network radio.[2]
- 31 December – In Sweden, Frukostklubben ends.
- January 19 – Donald McCullough, British broadcaster (b. 1901)
- March 27 – Wilfred Pickles, English radio presenter (b. 1904)
- April 28 – Walter Fischer, Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official (b. 1901)[3]
- June 29 – Bob Crane, American actor, drummer, radio host and DJ (b. 1928)
Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.