1967 in radio

Years in film:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Years in television:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Years in radio:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970

[edit] Events

January 22: first day of broadcasting of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). The network paired with American Public Media in 2004 and is now the second largest producer of public radio programming in the United States, following National Public Radio.
August 14: The British Marine Broadcasting Offences Act was passed, making it an offense to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This resulted in the closure of all of Britain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline.
August 28: WCBS begins all-news programming.
September 30: The BBC introduced its national pop station Radio 1, modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London. The old BBC Light, Third and Home channels became Radios 2, 3 and 4 respectively.
September 30: Radio Ceylon becomes the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation.
November 7: The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 leads to the start of National Public Radio in the United States.
November 8: BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.
University Radio York becomes Britain's first student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.
3AW becomes Australia's first talkback radio station.

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