March 24: The Ray D'Arcy Show on commercial radio station Today FM, covers the Brian Cowen nude portraits story. Producer Will Hanafin claims that a friend of the artist e-mailed photographs of a similar painting to him in January. Hanafin is approached by the Garda and warned he could be charged if he refuses to give up the e-mails.[3]
June: Radio Erena, a Paris-based radio station broadcasting news in the Tigrinya and Arabic languages to Eritrea, is launched by journalist Biniam Simon.[5]
June 25: American musician Michael Jackson dies. Radio stations around the world play his music in the months following as a tribute.[6][7]
July 4 and July 5: After a 50+ year career, 39 of those years as host of syndicated countdown shows, Casey Kasem hosts his final weekly countdown show. American Top 20 and American Top 10 were spinoffs of his original show, American Top 40, which continues with host Ryan Seacrest.
July 6–12 – Australian Radio station Triple J holds its 'Hottest 100 of All Time' with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" coming in first for the third consecutive time a 'Hottest 100 of All Time' has been held 1991, 1998 and 2009. This is the largest music poll in the world with more than half a million people voting.
date unknown: A hely ("The Place"), a programme that experiments with the presentation of events, phenomenon, places and professions from a very insider perspective, is launched on Kossuth Rádió in Hungary.
