The station was purchased in January 1980 by Minnesota Public Radio ( MPR ), while WLOL-FM transitioned to a pop music format before eventually being sold off to another company.

The AM station was sold to MPR in 1980.

The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.

The MRTA originated in 1980 from the merging of the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Socialist Party and the militant faction of the Revolutionary Left Movement, MIR El Militante ( MIR-EM ).

In March 2004 it was suggested that the unique Kaidun meteorite, which landed in Yemen on March 12, 1980, may have originated on the Martian moon of Phobos.

According to fandom historian Fred Patten, the concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a character drawing from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics started a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels.

* Salim ( Sandy ) Bonnor Lewis, born January 27, 1939, moved with his family to Essex in 1980, an American investment banker, arbitrageur, merger-maker, founded in 1980 a general partnership, S B Lewis & Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, originated and closed, negotiating for both sides, the tax free merger of American Express and Shearson Loeb Rhodes, received a presidential pardon from President Clinton on his last day in office-the only pardon of an NYSE member firm chief executive in Wall Street history, see http :// sblewis. net, known for litigation that forced the Adirondack Park Agency to contribute $ 71, 690. 28 to the farm's litigation cost for government behavior deemed unworthy by Acting Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Meyer in a series of decisions now bedrock in New York State law that allows a farm within the park to build to house farm workers without Park Agency involvement.

The Astra name originated with Vauxhall's 1980 model, though the car had originally been launched almost a year earlier as the Opel Kadett D. This model replaced the Vauxhall Viva in the UK, along with some versions of the Vauxhall Chevette.

One of the earliest pen-and-paper games to reference the term was Gamma World published by TSR in 1980 ( the same company that originated Dungeons and Dragons )., while its predecessor Metamorphosis Alpha, published in 1976 is classified as science fiction, highlighting some of the confusion between the two genres.

Blockbusters was created by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions and originated as an American series in 1980, but had a more successful run in the UK, where it lasted over eleven years ( between 1983 and 1994 ) with the host Bob Holness ( 1928 – 2012 ).

It originated in Australia between 1976 and 1980, and appears first in the literature in a series of six InDepth articles by the same name published by US Computerworld in May-June 1981.

DataFlex is a relational database management system, self-described as an applications development database, originated around 1980.

( known prior to 1980 as Anthym ) was a rock band that originated in Fairfax High School in California and would play numerous shows along the coast of California.

The plan, which originated with Republican leaders, was an important campaign plank of Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, who advocated a larger military and strategic confrontation with the Soviet Union.

OMON originated in 1979, when the first group was founded in preparation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, to ensure that there were no terrorist attacks like the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

The team originated as the Detroit Lightning, which joined the MISL as an expansion team in the 1979 – 1980 season.

Jackson Guitars originated in 1980 when guitarist Randy Rhoads approached Charvel with an idea for an individualized guitar.

Government Issue originated in 1980 as The Stab, from which lead singer John Schroeder derived his pseudonym John Stabb.

It is said to have originated in Australia between 1976 and 1980, and appears first in the literature in 1981 in the Savant Institute publication Information Engineering by James Martin and Clive Finkelstein.

The descriptor " Finite-difference time-domain " and its corresponding " FDTD " acronym were originated by Allen Taflove in a 1980 paper in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.

In April, 1980, she originated the role of nurse Lyla Montgomery on As The World Turns.

It is also featured in an episode of Taxi ( performed by Marilu Henner ) and the Broadway musical 42nd Street, originated by Jerry Orbach playing Julian Marsh in the 1980 original Broadway cast.

The Camel Trophy originated in 1980 with three Jeep-equipped German teams exploring the Amazon.

* List of Peabody Award winners ( 1980 – 1989 )

* George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award, 1980, for Archie Alone episode, Archie Bunker's Place

* Red Barber ( 1980 – 1992 ; won a Peabody Award in 1990 for his Friday-morning conversations with Edwards )

A four-time Emmy Award winner and three-time Peabody Award winner, Hockenberry has worked in media since 1980.

1980 ), Emmy Award-winning actor ; NYPD Blue and L. A. Law

Her second collection, The Trouble with You Earth People ( Donning / Starblaze, 1980 ) contains " The Trouble with You Earth People ", " The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl ", " Syndrome Johnny ", " Trouble with Treaties " ( with Tom Condit ), " The Origin of the Species ", " Collision Orbit ", " The Fittest ", " These Truths ", " Contagion ", " Brain Wipe " and her Nebula Award-winning " The Missing Man ".

His other successful films ( critically and / or financially ) were the 1978 Academy Award-winning California Suite, the 1980 Golden Globe-nominated slasher film Dressed to Kill, the 1981 war film Escape to Victory, the 1982 film Deathtrap, and the 1986 Academy Award-nominated Mona Lisa.

Her best-selling 1976 autobiography was made into an Academy Award-winning film, Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones, in 1980.

* Lin-Manuel Miranda ( born 1980 ), actor, and Tony Award-winning composer, and lyricist, best known for writing and acting in the Broadway musical In the Heights.

* Ryōko Hirosue ( born 1980 ) is an actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures.

Deryck Jason Whibley ( born March 21, 1980 ) is a Canadian musician and producer, best known for his work as the guitarist, lead vocalist, songwriter and producer of the Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated rock band Sum 41.

He is best known for co-writing, producing and directing the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter and writing and directing the infamous 1980 film Heaven's Gate.

Rheostatics was a Genie Award-winning Canadian indie rock band, active from 1980 to 2007.

* Tom Woodruff, Jr. ( 1980 ) Academy Award-winning special effects designer

He was featured in Grigori Chukhrai's Clear Skies ( 1961 ), Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace ( 1966-67 ), TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring ( 1973 ) and D ' Artagnan and Three Musketeers ( 1978 ), the Academy Award-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears ( 1980 ), Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov ( 1981 ) and Dark Eyes ( 1986 ), and the mock ostern A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines ( 1987 ), among others.

He was first introduced to the public in 1980 when appearing on the TV show That's Incredible !.

Devo made two appearances on the TV show Fridays in 1980, as well as on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert, American Bandstand, and other shows.

* 1980 – Neleh Dennis, American reality show contestant

In the United Kingdom, a study by Flynn ( 2009 ) found that tests carried out in 1980 and again in 2008 show that the IQ score of an average 14-year-old dropped by more than two points over the period.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

He left the show in 1980.

In February 1980 Mobile Suit Gundam was aired in Italy, the first country to broadcast the show abroad of Japan.

* In the 1980 children's novel The Magicians of Caprona, by Diana Wynne Jones, a Punch and Judy show is a part of an important series of events.

* Quango name ' source of ridicule ', files from 1980 show

P & G-produced soaps Another World and Guiding Light both went to St. Croix in 1980, the former show culminating a long-running storyline between popular characters Mac, Rachel and Janice, and the latter to serve as an exotic setting for Alan Spaulding and Rita Bauer's torrid affair.

On December 3, 1980, an over-sold Starwood hosted a final live show of the reunited band, including drummer Don Bolles.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

In April 1980, ZZ Top made their first appearance in Europe, performing for the German music television show Rockpalast.

In 1980, the ITV company ATV picked up the series and produced a solo show starring Alf-titled The Thoughts of Chairman Alf at Christmas-transmitted on 26 December.

NED unveiled the newly improved Synclavier II at the AES show in May 1980, where it became an instant hit.

Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns.

From 1980 to 1981 he had a second television variety show, the eponymous Tom Jones, that was produced in Vancouver, Canada and lasted for 24 episodes.

Since the first production of Sesame Street Live on September 17, 1980, 48 million children and their parents have seen the show performed, across the world.

Wilson appeared on the show again in 1980.

The song received crucial airplay on BBC Radio 1 and DJ John Peel's evening show, and Bauhaus was subsequently asked to record a session for Peel's show, which was broadcast on January 3, 1980.

The syndicated show abolished the Secret Square upon expansion to 5 days a week in 1980.

The daytime show aired its 3, 536th and last episode on June 20, 1980.

In 1980, the groundbreaking show Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art and visited London, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, as well as San Francisco and Chicago.