1967 in radio

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The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

• 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 Radio
  in the United States.
• Fall: St. Louis radio station KSHE flips from female-oriented rock to progressive rock, becoming the first progressive rock radio station in the US.

• 22 January: first day of broadcasting of
  National Public Radio
  .
• c. 1 April:
  CKLW in Windsor, Ontario adopts Bill Drake's Boss Radio
  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.
• 30 September: BBC Radio 1 is launched in the UK.^[1]
• Kanto region.^[2]
• 8 November: BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester
  .
• 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.

• KMAQ of Maquoketa, Iowa adds an FM frequency, which signs on the air at 95.3 FM and allows the station to broadcast local and sporting events after sunset. (The AM frequency was daytime only.) The station moves several years later to 95.1 FM.
• University Radio York becomes Britain's first student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.
• talkback radio
  station.

• 13 October: House Party ends its run on network radio (CBS).^[3]
• 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 Harvey
  would 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.

• 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
• 14 May - Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ, musician and radio host (died 2011
  )
• 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 comic
  and 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^[4]
• date unknown – Jamie Owen, Welsh radio and television presenter

• 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^[5]
• 25 August –
  Hong Kong 1967 riots)^[6]
• December – Douglas Ritchie (born 1905), British radio news editor and wartime propaganda broadcaster