1967 in British radio

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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This is a list of events in British radio during 1967.

Events

14 August - The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act is passed, making it an offense to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This results in the closure of all of Britain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline, which moves its supply operation to the Netherlands.

17 September - First broadcast of The World This Weekend on the BBC Home Service.

30 September - BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and middle of the road Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4. Radio 1 is launched at 7:00 am with Tony Blackburn's Daily Disc Delivery show (theme tune: Johnny Dankworth's "Beefeaters") and the first track played is The Move's "Flowers in the Rain".

8 November - BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.

22 December - Panel game Just a Minute is first aired on Radio 4 with Nicholas Parsons as chairman (initially as a temporary stand-in); it will still be running 48 years later with the same chairman.

Unknown - University Radio York obtains a testing and development licence as "Radio Heslington"; it becomes the United Kingdom's first student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.