1967 in radio

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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 offence to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This resulted in the closure of all of Biritain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline.
August 28: WCBS begins all-news programming.
September 17: First broadcast of The World This Weekend.
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.