1967 in radio
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The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
Events
- Fall: St. Louis radio station KSHE flips from female-oriented rock to progressive rock, becoming the first progressive rock radio station in the US.
- 14 August: The British Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 was passed, making it an offence 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.
- 30 September: Radio Ceylon becomes the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation.
- 31 October: WNEW-FM in New York City adopts a progressive rock format, the first station to do so in the Metromedia chain.
- 7 November: The National Public Radioin the United States.
Debuts
- 22 January: first day of broadcasting of National Public Radio.
- c. 1 April: top-40 format, eventually taking on the name "The Big 8" by the end of the year and soon becoming one of the most influential radio stations in North America.
- 30 June: WCPR (AM) 1450 went on the air in Coamo, Puerto Rico.
- 27 June: KNEI 1140 went on the air in Waukon, Iowa.
- 28 August: WNBC (AM)'s shared broadcast tower. The station still carries Arthur Godfrey's mid-morning program, and music programming during the overnight hours.
- 17 September: First broadcast of The World This Weekend.
- 30 September: The BBC scraps its outmoded Home Service and replaces it with the all-speech BBC Radio 4. The Light Programme is divided between a new national pop station Radio 1, modeled on the successful pirate station Radio London, and BBC Radio 2. The Third Programme is renamed Radio 3.
- 19 September: WPJX 1660 went on the air as WZBN in Zion, Illinois.
- 2 October: A one of popular radio program of Japan, Kanto region, later, this program listen area in nationwide Japan.[citation needed]
- 8 November: BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.
- 15 November: KPQ-FM 102.1 went on the air in Wenatchee, Washington.
- 22 December: chaired by Nicholas Parsons first transmitted on BBC Radio 4; Parsons continues to chair the show until shortly before his death in 2020.
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- University Radio York becomes Britain's first student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.
- talkback radiostation.
Closings
- 13 October: House Party ends its run on network radio (CBS).[1]
- 31 December: ABC Radio ceases operations as one network; it would be divided into four specialized networks (Information, Entertainment, Direction and Contemporary) on New Year's Day 1968. This is due to some of ABC's owned-and-operated stations (WABC, WLS, WXYZ, KQV) airing Top 40 formats that directly conflicted with ABC Radio's long-form, entertainment programming, in addition for ABC's desire to gain more than one affiliate in a market. The Breakfast Club and Paul Harveywould transfer to the American Entertainment Network, extended news blocks would move to the American Information Network, and the aforementioned ABC O&Os became affiliates of the American Contemporary Network.
Births
- 7 January – Mark Lamarr, British comedian and radio and television presenter
- 1 March – Jakki Brambles, English television and radio presenter and reporter
- 28 March – John Ziegler, radio talk show host on KFI in Los Angeles
- 27 April – Jason Whitlock, American sports personality
- 9 June – Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster, writer, and musician
- 1 July – Kim Komando, American radio host, America's Digital Goddess
- 6 August – Mike Greenberg, television and radio host for ESPN
- 11 October – stand-up comicand radio personality
- 14 October – Stephen A. Smith, American sports radio host.
- 13 November – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, writer, radio and television talk show host, game show host, and television producer
- date unknown – Jamie Owen, Welsh radio and television presenter
Deaths
- 1 June – Derek McCulloch, 69, BBC Radio presenter and producer
- 3 February – Martin Block, 66, American radio disc jockey considered the world's first as host of Make Believe Ballroom[2]
- Hong Kong 1967 riots
- Douglas Ritchie (born 1905), British radio news editor and wartime propaganda broadcaster
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.